Draft report of the ninth session of the conference of African planners, statsticians, and population and information specialists

Abstract

This document presents the Draft report of the ninth session of the conference of African planners, statsticians, and population and information specialists. The major issues that the Conference addresses including energy development, the analytical framework for policy reform, addressing unabated population growth, implementation of regional and global population action programmes and challenges of the urban environment. The participants would also tackle implementing more effectively the mandate of the Committee on African Statistical Development, Statistical Needs Assessment and Strategy Development (NASD) and the regional survey on statistical organization and training, as well as continued implementation of the Addis Ababa Plan of Action for Statistical Development in the '90's. On the theme of the Conference, delegates would examine how information technology could be used to accelerate socio-economic development in the Region, the work ECA was doing to promote information systems development in Africa and the importance of norms and standards in information work. A special feature of the Conference would be a data dissemination workshop, conducted by a representative of the United States Bureau of the Census.