This is a document of The First Session of the Committee on Statistics (STATCOM-I), it has The ACS 2008-2009 programme of work, which took place in Addis-Ababa (Ethiopia), from 20-25 January 2008.

This paper presents a number of issues and challenges confronting African NSSs in the delivery of quality statistics for monitoring the MDGs and suggests some potential remedial measures for these challenges. It is organized ...