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: April 23, 2010

The Development Data Group of the World Bank is pleased to invite submissions of proposals for 2010 Spring Window of the Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building (TFSCB). TFSCB, a multi-donor trust fund, aims to improve the capacity of developing countries to compile and use statistics with an overall objective of supporting the management of development results. TFSCB works closely with PARIS21 to advance coordinated international efforts to improve statistics globally.

The deadline for the submission of applications is April 23, 2010. For further information, please see the official announcement of the opening of the 2010 Spring Window.

PARTNERSHIP
PARIS21 Consortium Meeting

Dakar, Senegal: 16-18 November 2009

On 18 November 2009, PARIS21 successfully concluded its Consortium meeting in Dakar, Senegal. Participants endorsed a Dakar Declaration on the Development of Statistics, which is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian. The Secretariat also produced a newsletter that presented the results of the daily proceedings. Issues are available from Tuesday, 17 November [English and French] and Wednesday, 18 November [English and French].

The event brought together some 440 high-level participants (policy makers, statisticians, analysts, and civil society and private sector representatives from developing and developed countries, and multilateral organisations) from 105 countries to discuss statistical capacity building in developing countries and review the achievements and future contribution of the PARIS21 Partnership and its Secretariat.

The Consortium meeting was jointly organised by the Government of Senegal and PARIS21. More information on the meeting is available at the following address: http://www.consortium-paris21.org.

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