United Nations Statistical Commission

The High Level Forum on Official Statistics will take place on Monday, 6 March 2017 from 3:00 - 6:00pm and the theme of this year's forum is Working together to measure progress towards the SDGs.

The forum will focus on the importance of cooperation between all members of the international statistical system based on common principles. It will discuss how the compilation, validation and transmission of data for SDG monitoring can be further improved, taking into account national ownership of data and the need for internationally comparable data.

The Forum will consist of two sessions - the first will focus on the role of the global statistical system in reporting on the progress towards the agenda, while the second will focus on specific issues that surround the transmission of data from the national to the global level. Both sessions will include panellists from national statistical offices and international and regional organizations.

Proposed Agenda

1. Session 1 - Global Reporting on the 2030 Agenda
   
   Participants:
2. Moderator: Dr. Lisa Grace Bersales National Statistician, Philippines


3. Panellists:
   Mr. Dieter Sarreither, President, Federal Statistical Office, Germany
   Mr. Aboubacar Sedikh Beye, Director General, National Agency of Statistics and Demography, Senegal
   Mr. Pietro Gennari, Director, Statistics Division, FAO
   Ms. Silvia Montoya, Director, UNESCO Institute for Statistics
   Ms. Martine Durand, Chief Statistician, Statistics Directorate, OECD
   


4. Session 2 - Cooperation and coordination between the UN Statistical System and National Statistical Systems to monitor and report on progress of the 2030 Agenda
   
   Participants:
5. Moderator: Ms. Francesca Perucci, Assistant Director, United Nations Statistics Division


6. Panellists:
   Mr. Julio Santaella, President, National Institute of Statistics and Demography, Mexico
   Ms. Ola Awad, President, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
   Ms. Nancy Potok, Chief Statistician, United States of America
   Mr. Oliver Chinganya, Director, African Centre for Statistics, UNECA
   Mr. Atilla Hancioglu, Chief, Data Collection Unit, UNICEF
   Mr. David O`Connor, Permanent Observer of IUCN to the United Nations