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

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The Twentieth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC was held virtually on 7 and 8 April 2021.

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7 - 08 Apr 2021, 10:00 - 18:00
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Apertura vigésima reunión del Comité Ejecutivo de la CEA-CEPAL, abril 2021

 

The themes discussed at the twentieth meeting of the Executive Committee of the SCA complement those discussed at the previous meeting and refer to various challenges faced by national statistical systems in the region relating to the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the subsequent recovery.

The statistical challenges arising from development in transition, the production of official statistics based on the measurement of perceptions, innovations in the production of environmental statistics and peer review mechanisms to strengthen statistical institutions in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic were analyzed.

Review the progress in the implementation of the biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities, 2020–2021, of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC was examined.

 

In addition, virtual side events were held of interest to the member countries of the Conference:

  1. The United Nations World Data Forum and the “Road to Bern” Initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean.
  2. Earth Observations for Sustainable Development Goals in the Americas Region.
  3. Caribbean Geospatial Development Initiative (CARIGEO).
  4. Disability statistics from a regional perspective: the Buenos Aires Group. (Spanish only)

 

INFORME / REPORT
27 Ago./Aug. 2021

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

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

 

ACUERDOS / AGREEMENTS
8 Abr./Apr. 2021

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

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

 

 


 

 

Schedule

 

7 Apr 2021



Opening session

  • Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC
  • Juan Daniel Oviedo, Director-General of the DANE of Colombia, in his capacity as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC
  • Stefan Schweinfest, Director of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Presentation and discussion of substantive issues

a) Statistical challenges of development in transition


Moderator: Juan Daniel Oviedo, Director-General of DANE of Colombia, in his capacity as Chair of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

High-level dialogue on development in transition



  • Mario Pezzini, Director of the Development Centre of OECD

  • Jolita Butkeviciene, Director for LAC in Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development of the European Commission


b) Towards the production of official statistics based on the measurement
of perceptions


Moderator: Macarena Alvarado, Head of the Social Observatory Division of the Ministry of Social Development and Family of Chile 


Introduction: 





Side events

  1. The United Nations World Data Forum and the “Road to Bern” Initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean
  2. Earth Observations for Sustainable Development Goals in the Americas Region

c) Peer review mechanisms to strengthen statistical institutions in the
aftermath of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic


Moderate: Juan Daniel Oviedo, Director-General of the DANE of Colombia, in his capacity as Chair of SCA-ECLAC





Panel of countries on lessons learned from the peer review in the region
  • Diana Castillo-Trejo, Acting Director-General of the Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB)
  • Susie Fortier, Director of the International Cooperation and Methodology Innovation Centre of Statistics Canada
  • Leesha Delatie-Budair, Deputy Director General of the Statistical Institute of Jamaica
  • Iván Ojeda, National Director of the National Institute of Statistics (INE) of Paraguay

d) Innovations in the production of environmental statistics


Moderator: Marco Lavagna, Director of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) of Argentina





 

8 Apr 2021



Review of progress in the implementation of the biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities, 2020-2021, of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

Xavier Mancero, División de Estadísticas de la CEPAL / Statistics Division of ECLAC
Introducción / Introduction


  1. Guide for the implementation of a quality assurance framework for the production of official statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean
  2. A harmonized methodological framework for measuring disaster-related indicators pertaining to the Sustainable Development Goals and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
  3. Guía metodológica para las mediciones de uso del tiempo en América Latina y el Caribe
  4. Protocolo para la recolección y divulgación de datos sobre niños, niñas y adolescentes como participantes de estudios
  5. Manual on the design of security and criminal justice statistical systems
  6. Methodological document on conceptual aspects and statistical use of economic administrative records
  7. Guide for the measurement of prices and volumes in the services
  8. Recomendaciones para la generación de estadísticas e indicadores ambientales con información geoespacial y el uso de fuentes no convencionales
  9. General guidelines for census data capture: a review of data capture methods with a view to the 2020 census round
  10. Documento de diagnóstico sobre las capacidades de los sistemas estadísticos de América Latina y el Caribe y mejores prácticas para la medición de la migración internacional
  11. Document of best practices for the adoption of the new international standards of the International Labour Organization

Side events

  1. Caribbean Geospatial Development Initiative (CARIGEO)
  2. Estadísticas de discapacidad con perspectiva regional: el Grupo de Buenos Aires (Spanish only)

Report by the secretariat on the regional follow-up of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the dissemination of regional statistics

  • Fourth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development and the Regional Knowledge Platform on the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean (SDG Gateway)

  • Rolando Ocampo & Daniel Taccari, Statistics Division of ECLAC
    Progress in the dissemination of regional statistics through CEPALSTAT 

Other matters





  • Renewal of the mandate of the member countries of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators and the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda

Consideration and adoption of agreements

 

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