SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – The Bahamas and Grenada have been elected to the manager committee of the Statistical Convention of the Americas because the twelfth assembly of Statistical Convention of the Americas ended right here with nations being urged to generate and consolidate statistics and indicators on the atmosphere, local weather change, and disasters.
Delegates to the three-day assembly stated that the necessity to generate and consolidate at a nationwide and regional stage environmental, local weather change, and catastrophe statistics and indicators will present dependable and well timed metrics for decision-making and for transferring ahead on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Improvement Targets (SDGs).
The intergovernmental assembly, the primary discussion board for discussing the event of statistics within the area, introduced collectively authorities from Nationwide Statistical Workplaces in Latin American and Caribbean nations and representatives of United Nations System companies, funds and applications, academia, and civil society.
The Dominican Republic has taken over because the Chair of the Statistical Convention of the Americas for the 2024-2025 biennium, with the opposite govt members being from Argentina, the Bahamas, Grenada, Mexico, Peru, Spain, and Uruguay.
Basic Director of the Nationwide Statistics Workplace of the Dominican Republic, Miosotis Rivas, stated that “within the complicated context during which we reside and with the potential for making progress on the excessive velocity enabled by new applied sciences, we should rework ourselves right into a group that may gas higher improvement of our area via knowledge and statistics.
“We face financial and social challenges of nice affect within the area, with aggravating elements such because the surprising results of local weather change.”
In that context, Nationwide Statistical Workplaces should present the uncooked materials, statistics, as important and indispensable devices for designing and monitoring the general public insurance policies that “will immediate an acceleration within the achievement of change for our folks.”
The Director-Basic of the Nationwide Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC), Marco Lavagna of Argentina, reiterated the urgency of strengthening the area’s statistical group, which might allow placing the Latin American and Caribbean perspective on the worldwide agenda.
The Govt Secretary of the Financial Fee for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, and the Director of its Statistics Division, Rolando Ocampo, welcomed the agreements reached and the progress made through the three-day occasion.
“We’ve got lots of work forward and far to contribute for the sake of our area. We’re a really lively and collaborative group. ECLAC is proud to function Technical Secretariat of the Statistical Convention of the Americas.”
On the assembly, the collaborating nations permitted a decision that, amongst different factors, stresses the significance of platforms for the dissemination of official statistical and geospatial data, which use modern digital expertise options that allow interoperability of obtainable knowledge property for making such data obtainable in a extra well timed method and to a broader group of customers.
It additional acknowledges the position of nationwide statistical places of work as important stakeholders in main and coordinating the dissemination of statistical and geospatial data. It invitations nations to maneuver ahead in consolidating their platforms for disseminating statistical and geospatial data utilizing interoperable knowledge ecosystems that facilitate their implementation.
The decision acknowledges the usefulness of small space estimation methodologies as a software for producing official statistics disaggregated by curiosity group and geographic space, which permits ample monitoring of the SDGs and feeds a base of dependable data for the design and analysis of public coverage.
In the course of the Convention, authorities additionally permitted an announcement that harassed the necessity to have sustainable entry to knowledge held by the non-public sector to supply official statistics.
The assertion on using knowledge held by the non-public sector for official statistics warns concerning the elevated challenges related to accumulating main knowledge from people, households, companies, and establishments. It emphasizes the potential of private sector knowledge within the extra well timed and environment friendly manufacturing of official statistics.
It urges regional nations to assist nationwide statistical places of work of their key coordinating position in entry to knowledge held by the non-public sector for official statistical functions, contemplating the totally different ranges of progress of the respective nationwide statistical techniques.
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