Representatives of Latin America and the Caribbean’s national statistical institutes will analyze progress on the statistical cooperation program at a regional and international level during the twenty-third meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas, which will take place on August 28-29 at the central headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
At the gathering, authorities will review the regional challenges that must be addressed in the new 2026-2035 Strategic Plan of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA) and will examine progress on the implementation of the 2024-2025 Biennial Programme of Regional and International Cooperation Activities.
The meeting will be inaugurated on Wednesday, August 28 at 9 a.m. local time in Chile (UTC/GMT -4:00) by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary; Miosotis Rivas Peña, Director-General of the National Office of Statistics of the Dominican Republic, the country serving as Chair of SCA-ECLAC; and Stefan Schweinfest, Director of the United Nations Statistics Division (virtually).
On Tuesday, August 27, meanwhile, the Regional seminar on innovations in the population and housing census of the 2020 Round looking towards the 2030 Round will take place as a side event to the twenty-third meeting of the SCA’s Executive Committee. The objective of this event is to share innovations from the 2020 census round and lessons learned from the perspective of directors of national statistical offices. It also seeks to contribute to the planning of the 2030 census round, enhancing lessons learned and capacities acquired in light of the results and challenges.
The Statistical Conference of the Americas is a subsidiary body of ECLAC and the main forum for discussing the development of statistics in the region. Its principal mandates include promoting the development and improvement of national statistics and their international comparability, along with international, regional and bilateral cooperation between national offices and international and regional agencies.
Along with the Dominican Republic as Chair, the SCA’s Executive Committee in the 2024-2025 biennium is made up of Argentina, the Bahamas, Grenada, Mexico, Peru, Spain and Uruguay.
The inauguration of the twenty-third meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC will be transmitted live via https://live.cepal.org/estadisticas and on ECLAC’s social media accounts on X (@cepal_onu) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/cepal.onu).
Viewers will be able to follow the event’s official activities live at https://live.cepal.org/estadisticas.
What: XXIII Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC.
Who:
Inauguration (Wednesday, August 28, 9 a.m. local time in Chile/UTC/GMT -4:00):
When: Wednesday, August 28 and Thursday, August 29, 2024
Where: ECLAC’s headquarters. Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile.
Virtual connection with access to all the meeting’s debates via this link: https://live.cepal.org/estadisticas.
