Representatives of Latin America and the Caribbean’s national statistics institutes will analyze progress on the statistical cooperation program at a regional and international level during the twenty-first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC, which will take place on August 24 and 25 at the central headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
At this gathering, authorities will review recent experiences carrying out population censuses in the region's countries and will analyze the outlook in countries that will conduct them soon. Furthermore, they will examine progress on implementation of the Biennial Programme of Regional and International Cooperation Activities 2022–2023 of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA) of ECLAC.
The event will be inaugurated on Wednesday, August 24 at 10 a.m. local time by Rolando Ocampo, Director of ECLAC’s Statistics Division; Marco Lavagna, Director of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) of Argentina, the country serving as Chair of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC; and Stefan Schweinfest, Director of the United Nations Statistics Division.
In the framework of the meeting, a seminar will be held on measuring development Beyond GDP, where participants will address the various statistical challenges related to improving GDP measurement and the production of complementary indicators to account for economic, social and environmental development.
Also during the two-day event, presenters will unveil the document “Breaking the statistical silence to achieve gender equality by 2030,” as a joint contribution by the Regional Conference on Women and the Statistical Conference of the Americas for strengthening the production of information on gender inequalities. Separately, participants will report on follow-up to regional implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
In the run-up to the meeting, on Tuesday, August 23, a seminar will be inaugurated on Strengthening environment, climate change and disaster information in the Caribbean (organized by ECLAC in collaboration with PARIS21).
At this seminar, which will take place through Wednesday, August 24, representatives from Caribbean countries’ statistical offices and Ministries of Environment will discuss the assessment and development of the strategic capacity of their climate change data ecosystems.
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 Argentina, which is serving as Chair, the SCA’s Executive Committee in the 2022-2023 biennium is made up of Canada, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Italy and Jamaica.
The inauguration of the twenty-first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC will be transmitted live on ECLAC’s website, at https://live.cepal.org/estadisticas and on its social media accounts on Twitter (@cepal_onu) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/cepal.onu).
All the meeting’s debates can be followed live via https://live.cepal.org/estadisticas.
What: XXI Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC
Who:
Inaugurating the event (Wednesday, August 24, 10 a.m. local time):
When: Wednesday, August 24 and Thursday, August 25, 2022
Where: ECLAC’s headquarters. Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile.
Virtual connection with access to all of the meeting’s debates via https://live.cepal.org/estadisticas.
