The forty-eighth session of the United Nations Statistical Commission is scheduled in New York from 7 to 10 March 2017. It is important for African countries to speak with one voice and thus harmonize their contributions ...

Les forums régionaux pour le développement durable font partie de l’architecture de suivi et d’examen du Programme de développement durable à l’horizon 2030. Les autres mécanismes de suivi sont l’examen national volontaire ...

The fifth session of the Statistical Commission for Africa was held in conjunction with the tenth meeting of the African Union Committee of Directors General of National Statistics Offices. The theme of the meeting was ...

This report covers progress in selected areas of primary focus for statistical development in Africa, while indicating the related challenges faced by the African statistical system as well as some of the recent initiatives ...

African stakeholders and partners developed a regional implementation version to the MAPS: the Reference Regional Strategic Framework for Statistical Capacity Building in Africa (RRSF). This framework is expected to ...

The ultimate objective of the Forum is to render more efficient and effective the support made available to countries in the framework of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. To this end, meetings of the Forum bring ...

The Sixth SDMX global conference was successfully held in the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) conference center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Under the theme SDMX for the Data Revolution, there were five ...

The creation of the Regional Committee of the United Nations Global Geo-spatial Information Management for Africa (UN–GGIM: Africa) will build on the important efforts of the Committee on Development Information, Science ...

This paper examines the structure and content of the ECA statistical database as well as the developmental problems therewith associated. It then looks into the data and methods used for socio-economic analysis and considers ...

The main objective of the joint session is to discuss the status of and challenges in the production of economic statistics in Africa and to take stock of the various efforts made towards the modernization of official ...