The Arab Conference on a Transformative Agenda for Official Statistics was organised and hosted by SESRIC in collaboration and partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Statistical Centre for the Cooperation Council for the Arab Countries of the Gulf (GCC-STAT), and Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics (AITRS) at SESRIC Headquarters in Ankara, Turkey on 5-7 April 2016.
The Conference was attended by experts from the National Statistics Offices of Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia and Turkey. The representatives of Eurostat and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) also participated in the Conference.
Organized as a High-Level Forum of official statisticians to seek a broad consensus on the strategic framework for statistics for the consideration, the Conference also aimed at formulating an adequate response to the increased demand for detailed and timely data to monitor progress on the goals and targets of the post-2015 development agenda.
Following the Welcoming Remarks of H.E. Ambassador Musa KULAKLIKAYA, Director General of SESRIC, Juraj RIECAN, Director of Statistics Division of ESCWA, Sabir AL-HARBI, Director General of GCC-Stat, and Ivo HAVINGA, Assistant Director of UNSD, the Conference covered five thematic areas of the Transformative Agenda that was identified by the Global Conference held on 15-16 January 2015 in New York and recognized by the UN Statistical Commission at its 46th Session. The thematic areas were:
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