United Nations Statistical Commission
Overview 49th Session (2018) Side Events
Side events
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- Tentative schedule and room assignments subject to change as of 8 March 2018
Morning
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
The Data Revolution in Action: Building a Federated System of SDG Data Hubs and Collaborative Platforms for Innovation
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 4
Lunch break
(No events scheduled)
Afternoon
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Data Revolution in Action: Building a Federated System of SDG Data Hubs and Collaborative Platforms for Innovation
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 4
Evening
(No events scheduled)
Morning
(No events scheduled)
Lunch break
(No events scheduled)
Afternoon
(No events scheduled)
Evening
(No events scheduled)
Morning
9:00 - 11:30 am
4th Meeting of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Food Security, Agricultural and Rural Statistics (IAEG-AG)
Organizer: FAO and World Bank
Venue: DC2-2111
(closed meeting)
9:30 am - 12:00 pm
International Comparison Program Inter-Agency Coordination Group: Principals Meeting
Organizer: World Bank
Venue: Millennium UN Plaza Hotel
(closed meeting)
9:30 am - 1:00 pm
DFID project meeting
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: DC2-2330
(closed meeting)
9:30 am - 2:30 pm
High Level Group on the Modernisation of Official Statistics (HLG-MOS)
Organizer: UNECE
Venue: DC2-1684
(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
12:30 - 2:00 pm
International Household Survey Network - Management Group Meeting (IHSN:MG)
Organizer: World Bank
Venue: Millennium UN Plaza Hotel
(closed meeting)
Afternoon
2:15 - 3:00 pm
RC-UNSD meeting
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: DC2-1949
(closed meeting)
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Meeting of MoU Group on Statistics
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: DC2-2330
(closed meeting)
2:30 - 4:00 pm
PARIS21 Executive Committee
Organizer: PARIS21
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
2:30 - 4:30 pm
Statistics for Results - Principles Meeting
Organizer: World Bank
Venue: Millennium UN Plaza Hotel
(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: DC2-1949
(closed meeting)
Evening
(No events scheduled)
Morning
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Integrating statistical, geospatial, and other Big Data to leave no one behind
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 4
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Strengthening Migration statistics: the 2030 Agenda and the New York Declaration
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 11
8:15 - 9:30 am
Statistical Conference of the Americas: Information Meeting
Organizer: ECLAC
Venue: Conf. Room 9
(closed meeting)
8:15 - 9:30 am
Asia regional meeting of PARIS21 partner countries
Organizer: PARIS21
Venue: DC2-2111
(closed meeting)
9:00 - 11:45 am
31st 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: DC1-1025
(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
3-years on: What have the SDGs done for National Statistical Systems?
Organizer: PARIS21
Venue: Conf. Room A
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Donor coordination in countries and its impact in development of statistics
Organizer: Sweden/UNECA/
Somalia/Cambodia
Venue: Conf. Room 9
1:30 - 2:45 pm
UK meeting with African partners
Organizer: UK
Venue: UK Mission
(closed meeting)
Afternoon
3:00 - 6:00 pm
Communicating data and statistics: Bringing trusted and actionable data to the public, the media and policy-makers
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 4
Evening
6:15 - 7:15 pm
Latin America 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 - 7:15 pm
ISWGNA-MG meeting
Organizer: ISWGNA
Venue: Conf. Room B
(closed meeting)
6:15 - 7:15 pm
HLG meeting on Quality
Organizer: Eurostat
Venue: DC2-2330
(closed meeting)
6:15 - 7:30 pm
Meeting of the Bureau and members of the Statistical Commission for Africa
Organizer: UNECA/AUC
Venue: Conf. Room A
(closed meeting)
Morning
8:15 - 9:30 am
10 Years of the 2008 SNA: Looking Forwards Looking Back
Organizer: ISWGNA
Venue: Conf. Room 4
8:15 - 9:30 am
Event on SDG 12 indicators
Organizer: UNEP
Venue: Conf. Room 11
8:15 - 9:30 am
Use of technologies in the agricultral censuses of Brazil and China
Organizer: Brazil/China
Venue: Conf. Room B
8:15 - 9:30 am
TOSSD: A statistical measurement framework for tracking the Means of Implementaion to achieve the SDGs
Organizer: OECD/ TOSSD Task Force
Venue: Conf. Room A
8:15 - 9:30 am
Conversations with statisticians: Human development in the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development
Organizer: UNDP
Venue: Conf. Room 12
8:15 - 9:30 am
CRVS Global Group meeting
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: DC2-2330
(closed meeting)
8:15 - 9:30 am
ESCAP Bureau meeting
Organizer: ESCAP
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
8:30 - 9:30 am
MENA regional meeting of PARIS21 partner countries
Organizer: PARIS21
Venue: DC2-2111
(closed meeting)
Lunch break
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Proof of Concept of the UN Global Work Group Platform for Trusted Data Collaboration
Organizer: UNSD/UK
Venue: Conf. Room 4
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Measuring corruption in the framework of SDGs
Organizer: Mexico/UNODC
Venue: Conf. Room 12
1:15 - 2:30 pm
IT tools for national accounts compilation
Organizer: Eurostat/INSEE/Afristat
Venue: Conf. Room A
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Developing a global definition of cities and settlements
Organizer: European Commission/OECD/World Bank
Venue: Conf. Room B
1:15 - 2:00 pm
MEDSTAT
Organizer: Eurostat
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
2:00 - 2:45 pm
Meeting with the EU enlargement countries
Organizer: Eurostat
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Meeting of the UNECE CES Steering Group on Statistics for Sustainable Development Goals
Organizer: UNECE/Poland/Switzerland
Venue: DC2-2330
(closed meeting)
1:15 - 2:45 pm
Round Table Meeting of Small Island Developing States
Organizer: PARIS21
Venue: S1522 (Secretariat Building)
(closed meeting)
Afternoon
(No events scheduled)
Evening
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Reception for Commission Delegates, celebrating the ICP Jubilee
Venue: General Assembly Lobby
Morning
8:15 - 9:30 am
Climate Change - Linking Statistics and Policy
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 4
7:45 - 9:30 am
From Data to Policy: Time Use Surveys and the Sustainable Development Goals
Organizer: Data2X
Venue: Riverview Room, Millennium Hilton, One UN Plaza
8:15 - 9:30 am
Statistical Capacity Building: how NSO's can work with statistical professional associations
Organizer: ISI
Venue: Conf. Room 11
8:15 - 9:30 am
Geospatial Reference, Infastructure and Demographic Data for Development: The GRID3 Program
Organizer: UNFPA/UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 12
8:15 - 9:30 am
Generic Model of Business Processes of Geoinformation
Organizer: Brazil/Mexico
Venue: Conf. Room A
8:15 - 9:30 am
SDMX Sponsors Meeting
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: S-2725BR (Secretariat Building)
(closed meeting)
8:15 - 9:30 am
Meeting of the Management Group of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
8:15 - 9:30 am
EU funded Project Natural Capital Accounts and Valuation of Ecosystem Services
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room B
(closed meeting)
8:30 - 9:30 am
Meeting of the Andean Committee of Statistics
Organizer: Andean Community
Venue: DC2-2111
(closed meeting)
Lunch break
1:15 - 2:30 pm
2020 Round of Population and Housing Censuses: Contemporary Technology Capabilties and Implementation
Organizer: UNSD/UNFPA/US Census Bureau
Venue: Conf. Room 4
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Event on disability statistics
Organizer: UNSD/Washington Group
Venue: Conf. Room A
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Poverty statistics: past, present and future
Organizer: World Bank
Venue: Conf. Room 7
Afternoon
(No events scheduled)
Evening
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Meeting of Proposed Titchfield City Group on Ageing
Organizer: UK
Venue: Conf. Room A
6:15 - 9:00 pm
Progress for every child in the SDG era
Organizer: UNICEF
Venue: Japan Society,
(333 East 47th St.)
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Multidimensional poverty
Organizer: MPPN/OPHI
Venue: Conf. Room 11
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Partnership to enhance the ability of the statistical SDG follow-up
Organizer: Denmark/Finland/Norway/Sweden
Venue: Conf. Room 12
6:15 - 7:45 pm
Meeting of the closed CSSP Bureau
Organizer: OECD
Venue: Conf. Room B
(closed meeting)
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Meeting of the Steering Committee of the Praia Group
Organizer: Praia Group
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
Morning
8:15 - 9:30 am
Civil Registration and Vital Statistics: Emerging Models and Work in Progress
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 4
8:15 - 9:30 am
First Meeting of the Global Network of Institutions for Statistical training (GIST)
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room A
(closed meeting)
8:15 - 9:30 am
Meeting of the UN Global Working Group on Big Data
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room B
(closed meeting)
8:15 - 9:30 am
The Political Economy of Statistical Capacity
Organizer: IADB
Venue: Conf. Room 11
8:15 - 9:30 am
Meeting with the Delegates of National Statistical Offices of OIC Member Countries
Organizer: SESRIC
Venue: Conf. Room 12
(closed meeting)
8:15 - 9:30 am
ISI Committee on Agricultural Statistics
Organizer: FAO
Venue: FAO Office, DC1-1125
(closed meeting)
Lunch break
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Challenges with the compilation and dissemination of national accounts data
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 4
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Update of the Handbook of Statistical Organization - A collective endeavour
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 11
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Meeting of the Joint subgroup of the HLG/IAEG
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 9
(closed meeting)
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Praia City Group meeting
Organizer: UNDP
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Promotion of 62nd ISI World Statistics Congress and the IAOS 2018 Conference
Organizer: Malaysia
Venue: Conf. Room A
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Recovery of global manufacturing production and prospects of Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development (ISID)-Launch of International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2018
Organizer: UNIDO
Venue: Conf. Room B
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Measurement of Illicit Financial Flows
Organizer: UNODC/UNCTAD/Nigeria/Norway
Venue: Conf. Room F
Afternoon
(No events scheduled)
Evening
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Meeting of Advisory Group of the UNSD-DFID Project on SDG Monitoring
Organizer: UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 11
(closed meeting)
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Commonwealth Statisticians' Supper
Organizer: UK
Venue: UK Consulate General in New York
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Launch of e-learning software on gender statistics
Organizer: ESCWA
Venue: Conf. Room 12
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Meeting of the enlarged Bureau of the CSSP
Organizer: OECD
Venue: Conf. Room B
(closed meeting)
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Partner meeting of SDG projects in Africa--FDES, SUTs, and EE-SUTs
Organizer: ECA/UNSD/UNEP
Venue: DC2-2330
(closed meeting)
Morning
8:15 - 9:30 am
Event organized by IASI, Mexico and Argentina
Organizer: IASI/Mexico/Argentina
Venue: Conf. Room B
8:15 - 9:30 am
Early Childhood Development: New methodologies for monitoring SDG 4.2
Organizer: UNICEF
Venue: Conf. Room 11