United Nations Statistical Commission
Overview 48th Session (2017) Side Events
Side events
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- Tentative schedule and room assignments subject to change as of 8 March 2017
Morning
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Open data - adding value by matching access with privacy and security
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 4
Lunch break
(No events scheduled)
Afternoon
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Open data - adding value by matching access with privacy and security (continued)
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 4
Evening
(No events scheduled)
Morning
8:30 - 11:30 am
Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Food Security, Agricultural and Rural Statistics
Organizer: FAO and World Bank
Venue: DC2-2330
(closed meeting)
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
EDGE Project meeting
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: DC2-1949
(closed meeting)
Lunch break
(No events scheduled)
Afternoon
3:00 - 4:30 pm
GRAINS Partnership Steering Committee
Organizer: FAO and World Bank
Venue: DC1 - 11th floor (FAO Liaison Office)
(closed meeting)
Evening
(No events scheduled)
Morning
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
International Comparison Program: Meeting of the Inter-Agency Coordination Group
Organizer: World Bank
Venue: Millennium UN Plaza Hotel (TBC)
(closed meeting)
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
DFID project meeting
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: DC2-2330
(closed meeting)
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: DC2-1949
(closed meeting)
Lunch break
1:00 - 2:00 pm
TAG meeting
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
1:00 - 3:00 pm
International Household Survey Network - Management Group Meeting (IHSN:MG)
Organizer: World Bank
Venue: Millennium UN Plaza Hotel (TBC)
(closed meeting)
1:00 - 3:00 pm
Meeting of MoU Group on Statistics
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: DC2-2111
(closed meeting)
Afternoon
2:30 - 4:00 pm
PARIS21 Executive Committee
Organizer: PARIS21
Venue: DC2-1949
(closed meeting)
3:00 - 6:00 pm
Data Interoperability for SDGs
Organizer: UNSD/Global Partnership
Venue: DC2-2330
(closed meeting)
3:00 - 6:00 pm
Meeting of the Committee of the Chief Statisticians of the United Nations System (CCS-UNS)
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
3:30 - 5:30 pm
Statistics for Results - Principles Meeting
Organizer: World Bank
Venue: Millennium UN Plaza Hotel (TBC)
(closed meeting)
5:00 - 5:45 pm
Meeting on the MEDSTAT programme
Organizer: Eurostat
Venue: DC2-2111
(closed meeting)
Evening
(No events scheduled)
Morning
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
The Data Ecosystem: Towards Integrative National Information Systems
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 4
8:15 - 9:30 am
TOSSD: A statistical measurement framework for tracking the Means of Implementation to achieve the SDGs
Organizer: OECD
Venue: Conf. Room A
8:45 - 11:15 am
Statistical Conference of the Americas: Joint Meeting for PR's and Chief Statisticians of LAC Region on SDGs Statistical Activities
Organizer: ECLAC
Venue: Conf. Room 1
(closed meeting)
9:00 - 11:45 am
29th session of CCSA
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room B
(closed meeting)
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
UNCEEA Bureau Meeting
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room A
(closed meeting)
11:30 am - 12:45 pm
IAOS Executive Committee Meeting
Organizer: IAOS
Venue: Conf. Room C
(closed meeting)
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Orientation Session for New Commission Participants
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room B
Lunch break
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Scaling up the SEEA implementation - Towards the 2020 targets
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 7
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Statistical and Geospatial Perspective for the Definition of Settlements and Cities
Organizer: UNSD/UN-Habitat
Venue: Conf. Room 4
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Effective National Statistical System Assessments: Heading Towards Open Frameworks?
Organizer: PARIS21
Venue: Conf. Room A
Afternoon
3:00 - 6:00 pm
Working together to measure progress towards the SDGs
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 4
Evening
6:15 - 7:15 pm
Asia regional meeting of PARIS21 partner countries
Organizer: PARIS21
Venue: DC2-2111
(closed meeting)
7:15 - 8:15 pm
SIDS regional meeting of PARIS21 partner countries
Organizer: PARIS21
Venue: DC2-2111
(closed meeting)
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Bureau of the ESCAP Committee on Statistics
Organizer: ESCAP
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
6:15 - 7:15 pm
ISWGNA-MG meeting
Organizer: ISWGNA
Venue: Conf. Room B
(closed meeting)
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Children and the SDGS - Reception and launch of new report
Organizer: UNICEF
Venue: UNICEF House
6:30 - 7:30 pm
Meeting of the Bureau and members of the Statistical Commission for Africa
Organizer: UNECA
Venue: Conf. Room A
(closed meeting)
Morning
8:15 - 9:30 am
Promoting official statistics for monitoring environmentally-related SDG indicators and climate change
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 4
8:15 - 9:30 am
Open Seminar on Improving Food Consumption Measurement in National Household Surveys
Organizer: FAO and World Bank
Venue: Conf. Room 7
8:15 - 9:30 am
A Dialogue on Collaboration across Different Data Communities
Organizer: UNSD/Global Partnership
Venue: Conf. Room B
8:15 - 9:30 am
Institutional Cooperation for Capacity Development - the Nordic Model
Organizer: Sweden/Norway/Denmark
Venue: Conf. Room A
8:15 - 9:30 am
Measuring the prevalence of Modern Slavery, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking: The latest approaches
Organizer:
UK Mission/ILO/UNU/UNODC
Venue: Conf. Room 9
8:30 - 10:00 am
2nd Coordination meeting DA10 Social and Demographic statistics
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
10:30 am - 1:00 pm
Opening Session of the 48th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission
Venue: General Assembly Hall
Lunch break
1:15 - 2:30 pm
2020 Round of Population and Housing Censuses: Contemporary Technology, Coordination and Support
Organizer: UNSD/UNFPA/US Census Bureau
Venue: Conf. Room 4
1:15 - 2:30 pm
The measurement of Globalisation in Economic Statistics
Organizer: ISWGNA
Venue: Conf. Room 7
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Road Map on Drug Statistics
Organizer: Mexico/UNODC
Venue: Conf. Room A
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Missing Data, Missing Children: Approaches to leave no child behind
Organizer: UNICEF/Global Alliance for Children/Lumos/SOS Children's Villages
Venue: Conf. Room B
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Measuring the Interconnected Dimensions of Poverty to Energize Policy
Organizer: MPPN/OPHI
Venue: Conf. Room 9
2:00 - 2:45 pm
Meeting with the EU enlargement countries
Organizer: Eurostat
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
Afternoon
(No events scheduled)
Evening
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Reception for Commission Delegates
Organizer: The Chair of the Statistical Commission and the Director of the UN Statistics Division
Venue: General Assembly Lobby
6:15 - 7:15 pm
Latin America regional meeting of PARIS21 partner countries
Organizer: PARIS21
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
7:15 - 8:15 pm
MENA regional meeting of PARIS21 partner countries
Organizer: PARIS21
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
Morning
8:15 - 9:30 am
Green Economy indicators complementing the SDG framework
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 4
8:15 - 9:30 am
Are the current business models of NSOs still relevant?
Organizer: ISI
Venue: Conf. Room 7
8:15 - 9:30 am
Meeting with the Delegates of National Statistical Offices of OIC Member Countries
Organizer: SESRIC
Venue: Conf. Room A
(closed meeting)
8:15 - 9:45 am
SDMX Sponsors Meeting
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Room S-2725BR (Secretariat Building)
(closed meeting)
8:15 - 9:30 am
Meeting of the Andean Committee of Statistics
Organizer: Andean Community
Venue: Conf. Room B
(closed meeting)
8:15 - 9:30 am
Global Executive Board of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics
Organizer: FAO
Venue: DC1 - 11th floor (FAO Liaison Office)
(closed meeting)
Lunch break
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Accounting and statistics for sustainable tourism - 2017 International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 4
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Data for All: Tools for Monitoring the SDGs
Organizer: UNSD/CSF
Venue: Conf. Room 7
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Geospatial and Earth Observations in support of the Global Indicator Framework
Organizer: UNSD/GEO
Venue: Conf. Room A
1:15 - 2:30 pm
International recommendations on refugee and IDP statistics: an update on the work of the Expert Group
Organizer: UNHCR/Statistics Norway/Eurostat
Venue: Conf. Room B
1:15 - 2:30 pm
UNECE Steering Group on Statistics for SDGs
Organizer: Switzerland/USA/UNECE
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
1:15 - 2:30 pm
OECD in support of the SDGs: Czech Experience and the work of the OECD Development Co-operation and Statistics Departments
Organizer: Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic to the UN/OECD
Venue: Conf. Room 8
Afternoon
(No events scheduled)
Evening
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Follow up on the UN World Data Forum
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the UN
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Economic Pillar DA project
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room B
(closed meeting)
6:15 - 8:15 pm
OECD CSSP Bureau meeting
Organizer: OECD
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
Morning
8:15 - 9:30 am
Demystifying SDMX and its role in SDG implementation
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 4
8:15 - 9:30 am
Software for National Accounts compilation
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 7
8:15 - 9:30 am
Statistics of Human Development: Conversation with Statisticians
Organizer: Human Development Report Office of UNDP
Venue: Conf. Room A
8:15 - 9:30 am
Joint HLG/IAEG subgroup Meeting
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Room S-2723 (Secretariat Building)
(closed meeting)
8:15 - 9:30 am
Innovations in Analysis and Planning
Organizer:US Census Bureau/UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room B
8:15 - 9:30 am
Meeting of GWG Committee on the Global Platform
Organizer:UNSD
Venue: DC2-1949
(closed meeting)
8:15 - 10:00 am
Task Force on Common Elements of Statistical Legislation
Organizer:UNECE/UNSD
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
Lunch break
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Global Policy and technology framework for data, services and applications
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 4
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Improving Disability Statistics in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 7
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Preserving and sharing the demographic data record in francophone Africa
Organizer: UN Population Division
Venue: Conf. Room A
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Presentation of the new Interagency Expert Group on the Measurement of Early Childhood Development
Organizer: UNICEF
Venue: Conf. Room B
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Praia City Group on Governance Statistics: Workplan and Activities for 2017
Organizer: UNDP
Venue: Conf. Room 9
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Measuring up to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Contributions from FAO
Organizer: FAO
Venue: Conf. Room 8
Afternoon
(No events scheduled)
Evening
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Measuring migration in the context of SDGs
Organizer: OECD/DESA/IOM
Venue: Conf. Room A
Morning
8:15 - 9:30 am
SDG6 monitoring : A multi country perspective on data and methods
Organizer: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program
Venue: Conf. Room A
8:15 - 9:30 am
Exploring the case for a City Group on Ageing and Age-disaggregated Data
Organizer: UNDP
Venue: Conf. Room B
8:15 - 9:30 am
Expanding the Data Ecosystem: The role of Non-Official data for SDG Monitoring and Review
Organizer: Philippine Statistics Authority/TAP Network/UNDP/SDSN/Data Shift
Venue: Conf. Room 7
8:15 - 9:30 am
ISI Committee on Agricultural Statistics
Organizer: FAO
Venue: DC1 - 11th floor (FAO Liaison Office)
(closed meeting)
8:30 - 9:45 am
Meeting of International Committee on Census Coordination (ICCC)
Organizer: UNSD/UNFPA/USCB
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
Lunch break
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Briefing on the "International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2017"
Organizer: UNIDO
Venue: Conf. Room A
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Measuring and tracking young people's development in the SDGs
Organizer: Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth/UNFPA/UNDP/Malala Fund/The Major Group for Children and Youth
Venue: Conf. Room B
1:30 - 4:00 pm
Meeting of Steering Committee for the World Forum on Migration Statistics
Organizer: OECD/DESA/IOM
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)