Sixteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

4 Apr 2017 | Event

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Statistics

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Social statistics Economic statistics Environmental statistics Gender statistics Geospatial information Institutional framework for statistics National accounts Population and housing censuses Persons with disabilities Information and communications technologies (ICTs) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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The Sixteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC was held in Santiago, Chile, from 4 to 6 April 2017.

Date

4 - 06 Apr 2017, 09:00 - 18:00
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Sede de la CEPAL / Headquarters of ECLAC
Santiago
Chile

 

XVI Reunión del Comité Ejecutivo de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas

 

The sixteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the SCA focused on coordinating regional statistical efforts to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and strengthen technical cooperation among countries.

Within this framework, a seminar on SDG monitoring and a joint session with the Regional Committee of United Nations on Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas (UN-GGIM: Americas) were held.

 

INFORME / REPORT
10 Jul. 2017

Informe de la decimosexta reunión del Comité Ejecutivo la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas de la CEPAL

Report of the Sixteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

 

ACUERDOS / AGREEMENTS
6 Abr./Apr.  2017

Acuerdos adoptados en la decimosexta reunión del Comité Ejecutivo de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas de la CEPAL

Agreements adopted at the Sixteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

 

 

Schedule

 

4 Apr 2017

Opening session

  • Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC (Spanish)
  • Mario Palma, Vice-President of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) of Mexico, in his capacity as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC
  • Pascual Gerstenfeld, Director of the Statistics Division of ECLAC

Activities of the Conference regarding follow-up to the Sustainable Development Goals 

  1. Report on the activities of the Statistical Commission with respect to SDG indicators at its forty-eighth session
  2. Report on the activities of the Statistical Coordination Group for the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean
  3. Questionnaire on national statistical capacities for the production of SDG indicators and online platform 

 

5 Apr 2017

Review of progress in the implementation of the biennial programme of activities 2016-2017 of the working groups of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

Review of progress in the implementation of the biennial programme of activities of the working groups

  1. Grupo de Trabajo sobre Fortalecimiento Institucional
  2. Grupo de Trabajo sobre Censos
  3. Grupo de Trabajo sobre Cuentas Nacionales
  4. Grupo de Trabajo sobre Registros Administrativos
  5. Grupo de Trabajo sobre Estadísticas de Pobreza
  6. Grupo de Trabajo sobre Indicadores del Mercado Laboral
  7. Grupo de Trabajo sobre Estadísticas de Género
  8. Grupo de Trabajo sobre Estadísticas de Infancia y Adolescencia
  9. Grupo de Trabajo sobre Medición de la Discapacidad
  10. Grupo de Trabajo sobre Estadísticas Ambientales 

Joint meeting of the member countries of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC and the members of the Regional Committee of the United Nations on Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas (UN-GGIM-Americas)

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6 Apr 2017

Meeting of heads of delegation of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC (Belize, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Spain and Uruguay)  (closed meeting)

Review of progress in the implementation of the biennial programme of activities of the working groups (cont.)

  1. Grupo de Trabajo sobre Estadísticas Agropecuarias
  2. Grupo de Trabajo sobre Estadísticas de Seguridad Pública y Justicia
  3. Grupo de Trabajo sobre Medición de las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones 
  4. Grupo de Trabajo sobre Clasificadores Internacionales
  5. Red de Transmisión del Conocimiento (RTC) 
     

Information regarding subregional and international cooperation activities

  1. CAN
  2. CENTROESTAD
  3. MERCOSUR
  4. OIT
  5. UNISDR
  6. UNFPA
  7. UNODC
  8. UNDP
  9. UNICEF
  10. ONU Medio Ambiente ORLAC
  11. FAO
  12. Programa de Comparación Internacional (PCI)

Other matters

Consideration and adoption of agreements

Closing session

 

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