The overall objective of the African and Asian calendars is to help harmonise the efforts of technical and financial partners supporting statistics by providing information on relevant meetings. The intention is to optimise the preparation and organisation of meetings as well as to avoid possible duplication of efforts and bunching-up of meetings. The calendar could enable national statistical directors to better anticipate their travel and thereby make the most efficient use of their time. The technical and financial partners could also anticipate their participation in a meeting and enjoy a greater visibility of their upcoming interventions. More than just a calendar, it is a tool for co-ordination of stakeholders in statistical development.

This calendar will focus on not only regional and subregional events but also international events in which statistical development plays a major role. The inclusion of national events could be envisioned in future updates of the calendar.

Your remarks, comments, and notes are of course welcome!
Please send your contributions to contact@paris21.org

• The calendar is sorted by month. It is updated at the end of every week with information that technical and financial partners regularly provide to us.

• The “Date” field indicates the start and end dates of the event. When an event is scheduled but the date is not yet fixed, the event is indicated at the beginning of the month (or quarter) with the annotation To Be Defined (TBD).

• The “Event” field contains the official title of the event. This text is clickable if a website for the event is available.

• The “Organiser” field indicates the name of the event organiser. A link will bring the user to that organiser’s site.

• The “Geographical coverage” field indicates the geographical reach of the event; that is, what level of country grouping is concerned — subregional (e.g., ECOWAS or ASEAN countries); regional (e.g., all African or all Asian countries); or international (e.g., an international meeting in which statistical development is explicitly mentioned).

Funding Statistical Development
Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building

Deadline for Applications: 4 November 2010

The World Bank is inviting submissions of proposals for the 2010 Fall Window of the Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building (TFSCB). The TFSCB aims to improve the capacity of developing countries to compile and use statistics with an overall objective of supporting the management of development results.

The deadline for applications in the Fall window is 4 November 2010. For more information, click here.

Advocacy
Country-level Advocacy Toolkit

Consult the toolkit here

PARIS21 has just published a Country-level Advocacy Toolkit, which aims to help national statistical system managers and statisticians in developing countries with their own advocacy work and to demonstrate the advantages of planning advocacy systematically. It gathers, in a single package, advocacy methodology, tools, tips and messages.

The Toolkit deals with statistical advocacy at the country level. It focuses on statistical advocacy as a means to convince policy-makers, civil society, Media, NGOs and representatives of multilateral and bilateral agencies in developing countries of the importance of statistics in the wider context of development and, in particular, of the necessity for developing countries to have a well-prepared, adequately funded and successfully implemented National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS). [Consult the toolkit here.]

Statistical Development News - 8 September 2010
The Latest Developments in Statistical Development

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: The Prime Minister signed a National Executive Council decision to develop an NSDS
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VACANCY NOTICES: DFID is seeking a new Chief Statistician 
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VACANCE D'EMPLOI: Afristat recrute son nouveau directeur-général. Dépôt des dossiers de candidature au 20 septembre 2010.
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CANADA: The Chief Statistician resigned on 21 July 2010
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CAMEROUN : Tenue d'un atelier pour discuter du financement de la statistique.
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HMN: The Health Metrics Network approves its future strategy.
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GABON : Le gouvernement et les bailleurs de fonds cherchent du financement pour la SNDS.
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INDIA: The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation appoints a new Chief Statistician of India.
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COMUNIDAD ANDINA : Los Países de la CAN incorporan al PENDES en su Legislación Nacional y comunitaria
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CONGO, RD : La RDC vient de mettre en place un groupe thématique « statistiques » pour travailler sur le DSCRP II.
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