Representatives of the national statistical institutes of Latin America and the Caribbean will analyze progress in regional and international statistical cooperation

Representatives of the national statistical institutes of Latin America and the Caribbean will analyze the progress made in the statistical cooperation program at the regional and international levels, during the twenty-first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC, which will be held on on August 24 and 25 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.

During the meeting, the authorities will review recent experiences in carrying out population censuses in the countries of the region and will analyze the perspectives of the countries that are about to carry it out. They will also examine the progress in the execution of the Biennial Program of Regional and International Cooperation Activities 2022-2023 of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA) of ECLAC.

The meeting will be opened on Wednesday, August 24 at 10:00 am 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 that holds the Presidency of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC, and Stefan Schweinfest, Director of the United Nations Statistics Division.

Within the framework of the meeting, a seminar will be held on the measurement of development Beyond GDP, in which the various statistical challenges related to improving the measurement of GDP and the production of complementary indicators to account for economic development will be addressed. , social and environmental.

During the meeting, the document “Breaking the statistical silence to achieve gender equality in 2030” will be presented, as a joint contribution of the Regional Conference on Women and the Statistical Conference of the Americas to strengthen the production of information on gender inequalities. gender. Information will also be provided on the follow-up to the regional implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

In the run-up to the meeting, on Tuesday, August 23, the seminar Strengthening the information on the environment, climate change and disasters in the Caribbean (Strengthening environment, climate change and disaster information in the Caribbean), organized by ECLAC in collaboration with PARIS21.

Representatives from statistical offices and Ministries of the Environment of the Caribbean countries will participate in the meeting, which will last until Wednesday the 24th, who will discuss the evaluation and development of the strategic capacity of their data ecosystems on climate change. climate.

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 main mandates are the promotion of the development and improvement of national statistics and their international comparability, as well as international, regional and bilateral cooperation between national offices and international and regional organizations.

Together with Argentina in the Presidency, the Executive Committee of the CEA for the biennium 2022-2023 is made up of Canada, Colombia, Granada, Italy, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic.

The opening of the twenty-first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC will be broadcast live on the ECLAC website, at https://live.cepal.org/estadisticas and their social networks on Twitter (@cepal_onu) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/cepal.onu).

The official activities of the event can be followed live through the link https://live.cepal.org/estadisticas.

What: XXI Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

Who is it:

• Representatives of the national statistical institutes of Latin America and the Caribbean

They inaugurate (Wednesday, August 24, 10 am):

• Rolando Ocampo, Director of the ECLAC Statistics Division
• Marco Lavagna, Director of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) of Argentina, the country that holds the Presidency of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC
• Stefan Schweinfest, Director of the United Nations Statistics Division

When: Wednesday, August 24 and Thursday, August 25, 2022

Where: ECLAC headquarters. Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile.

Virtual connection with access to all meeting discussions via link https://live.cepal.org/estadisticas.