Regional Seminar "Institutional and statistical challenges for the monitoring of the Millenium Development Goals in Latin American and Caribbean countries"

Tuesday, November 27th

09:00 – 09:30 Registration

09:30 – 10:00 Welcome
Opening remarks

• Hector Maldonado, Director, National Statistical Department, Colombia Presentation of advances and results of the ECLAC project on statistical strengthening for monitoring MDGs in the region.
• Juan Carlos Feres,, Division of Statistics and Economic Projections, ECLAC.

10:00 – 11:00 Session 1.
Analysis of statistical discrepancies of the MDG indicators among national and international sources.
Actions to reduce these divergences Moderator: ECLAC Updated assessment of statistical discrepancies in MDG indicator values among those presented by national sources and those used by international agencies, emphasizing the main factors that explain the differences in general.

• Calculating MDG indicators: Lack of information and discrepancies between national and international data sources. Rayén Quiroga, ECLAC, 
• Discussion of possible actions that could be carried out to decrease the statistical discrepancies.

11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 – 13:00 Session 1, continued.

• Comments and discussion

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 16:00 Session 2.
Guidelines for national and international indicator value convergence: thematic analysis.
Moderator: UNDP Colombia Thematic presentations analyzing the factors affecting the statistical divergence.

Thematic presentations analyzing the factors affecting the statistical divergence. Proposal of some guidelines to develop convergence within the thematic MDG area: poverty, hunger, education, gender..

•  Lack of information and Discrepancies for the follow-up of Targets 1 and 2 of the Millenium Development Goals - Poverty and Hunger.  Xavier Mancero, ECLAC 
•  Lack of information and Discrepancies for monitoring Targets 3 and 16 of the Millenium Development Goals- Education and Unemployment rate of young people.  Ernesto Espíndola, ECLAC 
•  Lack of information and Discrepancies for the following up of Target 4 of the Millenium Development Goals - Gender Equality. Vivian Milosavljevic, ECLAC, 

Comments and discussion

16:00 – 16:20 Coffee break

16:20 – 18:00 Session 2, continued.

• DG themes: health, population, environmental sustainability, ICTs.

•  Lack of information and Discrepancies for the following up of Targets 9, 10 and 11 of the Millenium Development Goals - Environmental Sustainability. Rayén Quiroga,  ECLAC,
•  Lack of information and Discrepancies for the following up of Target 18 of the Millennium Development Goals - Information and Communication Technologies.  Rayén Quiroga, ECLAC, 

Wednesday, November 28th

09:30 – 11:00 Session 3.
Institutional strengthening and inter-institutional coordination in the elaboration of MDG national reports
Moderator: National Planning Department, Colombia

• Discussion about the process of statistical production and MDG monitoring, as well of the inter-institutional coordination dynamics to facilitate both the quality, collection and use of statistical information at the country level. It will be important to identify good practices and experiences that can improve the processes of developing MDG indicators to reinforce the analysis in the MDG’s national reports.
• Comments and discussion

11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 – 13:00 Session 3, continued

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 16:00 Session 4.
Guidelines for future work on monitoring the MDGs
Moderators: ECLAC and National Statistical Department, Colombia

• Discussion on the challenges and work to be carried out by the different actors (statistical offices, national report leaders, UN system agencies) regarding interinstitutional coordination and the development of countries-agencies statistical convergence, in order to strengthen national and regional capacities for monitoring MDGs.

16:00 – 16:30 Closing remarks
ECLAC’s Representative
DANE’s Representative