At its eighth meeting, the Executive Committee will decide on the provisional agenda, the place and date of the fifth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC and the substantive issues to be discussed. The Executive Committee will have before it for discussion the proposed areas of work for the biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities, 2009-2011. The Executive Committee also intends to hold a meeting with international bodies that carry out statistical activities in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a view to discussing and adopting measures to optimize coordination of their activities and increase their contribution to achieving the goals of the Strategic Plan 2005-2015.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

(Presentations and speeches in Spanish)

Wednesday 22 October

9 a.m. - 10 a.m. Registration of participants

10 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Opening session

Juan Temístocles Montás, Secretary of State for the Economy, Planning and Development of the Dominican Republic

Laura López, Secretary of the Commission, ECLAC

Héctor Maldonado, Chairperson of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

10.45 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. Coffee break

11.15 a.m. - 11.45 a.m. Adoption of the agenda (agenda item 1) Adoption of the agenda and organization of work LC/L.2923(CE.8/1); LC/L.2924(CE.8/2) 11.45 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Review of progress in the implementation of the Biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities, 2007-2009 (agenda item 2) Report of the secretariat LC/L.2933(CE.8/3); LC/L.2814/Rev.1

12.30 p.m. - 1 p.m. Report of the Knowledge Transfer Network LC/L.2934(CE.8/4)

1 p.m. - 3 p.m. Lunch

3 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. Report of the Working Group on Gender Statistics LC/L.2935(CE.8/5); LC/L.2936(CE.8/6)

3.30 p.m. - 4 p.m. Report of the Working Group on Migration and Trends in Remittances LC/L.2937(CE.8/7)

4 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. Report of the Working Group on Censuses and the project on dissemination and assessment of harmonized census statistics for social programmes for sustainable development in MERCOSUR, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Mexico LC/L.2938(CE.8/8)

4.30 p.m. - 5 p.m. Coffee break

5 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Report of the Working Group on the Monitoring of Progress towards the Millennium Development Goals LC/L.2940(CE.8/10)

5.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Report of the Working Group on National Accounts LC/L.2941(CE.8/11); LC/L.2942(CE.8/12)

Thursday, 23 October

9 a.m. - 9.30 a.m. Report of the Working Group on Information and Communications Technologies LC/L.2943(CE.8/13)

9.30 a.m. - 10 a.m. Report of the Working Group on Institution-building and report on the project on integration and harmonization of instruments for social statistics (INAES) LC/L.2944(CE.8/14); LC/L.2945(CE.8/15)

10 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Report on technological and methodological cooperation for the conduct of the 2010 round of censuses LC/L.2946(CE.8/16)

10.30 a.m. - 11 a.m. Coffee break

11 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. Report on the project for updating the poverty measurement methodology used in Latin America and the Caribbean LC/L.2947(CE.8/17)

11.30 a.m. - 12 noon Report of the initiative group of the Working Group on Environmental Statistics LC/L.2948(CE.8/18)

12 noon - 12.30 p.m. Report on the dissemination of the European Statistics Code of Practice in the countries of the region LC/L.2949(CE.8/19) 

12.30 p.m. - 1 p.m. Recess

1 p.m. - 3 p.m. Lunch

3 p.m. - 4 p.m. Meeting of the Executive Committee with international bodies on statistical coordination in the region (agenda item 3)

The experience of the Conference of European Statisticians on the integrated presentation of statistical activities Report of the Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

4 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. Coffee break

4.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Regional statistical cooperation. Role and challenges of international agencies and bodies LC/L.2939(CE.8/9)

Friday, 24 October

9 a.m. - 9.30 a.m. Preparation of the fifth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC (agenda item 4)

Consideration of substantive issues for discussion at the fifth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC Report by the Secretariat

9.30 a.m. - 10 a.m. Analysis of proposed areas of work for the biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities, 2009-2011

Report of the Chair of the Executive Committee

10 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Consideration of the provisional agenda for the fifth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

Report by the Secretariat

10.30 a.m. - 11 a.m. Coffee break

11 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. Date and place of the fifth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

11.15 a.m. - 11.45 a.m. Other matters (agenda item 5)

11.45 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Adoption of agreements (agenda item 6) Report of the Rapporteur and adoption of agreements

12.30 p.m. - 1 p.m. Closing session Pablo Tactuk, Director General, National Statistical Office, Dominican Republic