GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC—Grenada’s Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell hopes the fiftieth anniversary of the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians (SCCS) will enable Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM) governments to take “deliberate actions” to strengthen nationwide statistical places of work and techniques.
The fiftieth anniversary, which will likely be noticed on Tuesday, coincides with the sixteenth observance of Caribbean Statistics Day, which will likely be held beneath the theme “Bettering Lives via Statistics, Strengthening and Innovating Collectively.”
Mitchell, the present CARICOM chairman, mentioned recognition of the 2 anniversaries “will guarantee the supply of high-quality, well timed statistics for customers, together with authorities policymakers, the personal sector, researchers/academia and all residents, significantly our youth, who have to be armed with proof to detect misinformation on this digital period.
“Subsequently, we have to discover artistic and modern methods of engendering statistics as a math-based science in our faculties in cultivating the following technology of statisticians, knowledge scientists, and associated consultants who can drive innovation in statistics and lead our area into the longer term.”.
Mitchell, who has lead accountability for Science and Expertise within the CARICOM Quasi Cupboard, mentioned it’s incumbent on him to emphasize that statistics “usually are not simply numbers on a web page; they inform a narrative of the folks we serve.
“This info is the bedrock of fine governance in guiding nationwide and regional insurance policies that search to enhance the lives of our folks,” he mentioned.
Mitchell mentioned that along with celebrating Caribbean Statistics Day and SCCS’s fiftieth anniversary, a number of milestones are additionally being noticed this 12 months. T
He mentioned these embrace the thirtieth anniversary of adopting the United Nations Basic Rules of Official Statistics and the tenth anniversary of their endorsement by the UN Basic Meeting.
The area will even be observing the fourth Excessive-Stage Advocacy Discussion board on Statistics, which is scheduled to be held in Belize within the periphery of the forty ninth assembly of the SCCS and
The regional leaders endorsed the midpoint of implementing the CARICOM Regional Technique for the Growth of Statistics (RSDS) a couple of years in the past.
“Collectively, these milestones underscore the indispensable function of statistics within the sustainable improvement of our area and unearth the necessity for larger dedication to its enhancement,” Mitchell mentioned, including that “in addition they spotlight the area’s obligation to transparency, accountability, and excellence in knowledge manufacturing.”
He mentioned the CARICOM High quality assurance framework and Code of Good Statistics apply are grounded within the UN Basic Rules of Official Statistics.
“Assembly these obligations and attaining the result of the CARICOM Regional Technique for the Growth of Statistics requires strengthening partnerships in mobilizing sources for statistics improvement.”
Mitchell mentioned that because the area enters one other decade of its statistical journey, it must replicate on the final 5 wherein the SCCS embraced and promoted regional collaboration by strengthening the power of Caribbean nations to gather, analyze, disseminate, and use knowledge.
“The success of the Committee is a testomony to the dedication and dedication of our statisticians, who typically have restricted sources to work with however have managed to take care of the manufacturing of knowledge in core areas of statistics.
“The invaluable assist of our improvement companions and stakeholders have to be acknowledged and counseled. A lot has been achieved, and far more may be completed if the infrastructure of Nationwide Statistical Workplaces and different data-producing companies are strengthened.”
Prime Minister Mitchell mentioned the lately adopted Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Small Islands Growth States (SIDS) highlights the necessity to put money into constructing human and institutional capability in SIDS to gather high quality, accessible, well timed, and dependable disaggregated knowledge and strengthen and modernize nationwide knowledge infrastructure and techniques.
He mentioned pure disasters proceed to erode the area’s improvement progress and thus weaken its means to realize the Sustainable Growth Targets (SDGs) targets.
“My nation, Grenada, together with Jamaica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, are among the many newest victims of the local weather disaster, having sustained extreme damages from the ravages of Hurricane Beryl. I
“It have to be emphasised that statistics is vital in saving lives, restoring livelihoods, and reporting on our social, financial, and environmental vulnerabilities. Thus, good statistics are wanted to strengthen our area’s case within the battle for local weather justice.”
Mitchell mentioned that good statistics are additionally important in pursuing sustainable tourism, renewable vitality, the blue and orange economies, agriculture, and meals and diet safety, in addition to in monitoring free motion and the impression of the altering dynamics of the area’s inhabitants.
” Allow us to acknowledge, in a extra wonderful manner, the important function that statistics play in shaping our area’s future. By strengthening our collaboration and embracing innovation, we are able to make sure that our statistical techniques stay sturdy, resilient, and related. Thus, producing higher knowledge drives higher choices, finally leading to higher lives for all our residents,” Mitchell added.
In the meantime, CARICOM Secretary Basic Dr. Carla Barnett mentioned the theme chosen for the event underscores the vital function that statistics play in enhancing the welfare of CARICOM residents.
She mentioned it acknowledges regional efforts to strengthen capability, improve statistical techniques, and generate correct, dependable, well timed, and related knowledge for coverage improvement and decision-making.
Barnett mentioned harmonized statistics are central to monitoring the progress of the CARICOM Single Market and Economic system (CSME), which permits for the free motion of products, abilities, labor, and companies throughout the area. Additionally they assist assess the efficacy of joint efforts to strengthen well being, schooling, and different vital regional improvement outcomes.
” The provision of high quality and well timed knowledge is vital as we search to handle the compounding social, environmental, and financial challenges that confront our area, equivalent to crime and violence, youth improvement, non-communicable ailments together with hypertension and diabetes, local weather change and biodiversity loss, home funding, unemployment, and inflation.
” As we start the following chapter in our joint regional statistical effort, allow us to renew our dedication to bettering the gathering and utility of statistics throughout CARICOM to widen and deepen the vary of knowledge we accumulate and share publicly and to advertise its use as a public good and profit to our folks,” Barnett added.
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