Summary on Technical Cooperation Activities in support of SPECA member countries Fourth SPECA PWG Meeting Istanbul 23 March 2009 Petteri Baer, Regional Adviser, UNECE ECE-ESCAP-SPECA/PWG-Statistics/2009/4-6 ECE/CES/GE57/2009/4-6

StatCapCA Project funded by the UN Development Account, 5th Tranche Population and Census preparations of the 2010 Round Measuring the Health Status of the population Non-Observed Economy Altogether 7 training workshops organized in 2006-2008 Additionally to this 3 Study visits on best management practices in Official statistics = CES & SPECA PWG Meetings 4 Advisory missions 23 March 2009

Engendering statistical information funded by the World Bank Institute, 2006-2010 A set of regional, sub-regional and national training workshops on gender issues Production of 9 multimedia presentations on gender statistics, see www.unece.org/stats/video Handbook on gender statistics Methodological work on statistics on violence against women Capacity building activities, especially targeted countries in Central Asia Kazakhstan Uzbekistan 23 March 2009

Challenges in Economic Statistics funded by the World Bank TFSCB Three workshops in 2009-2010 on Short-term statistics Seasonal adjustments Consumer price indices Highlighting the importance of timeliness for statistical agencies in general and in the present financial turmoil especially The methodology of seasonal adjustments as a long-term learning process – Recommendation: same participants in the two first training workshops! Problematic funding – a USD 50’000 for funding UNECE staff to the workshop is still needed (TIKA?) 23 March 2009

Supporting MDG strategies funded by the UN Development Account, 6th Tranche Joint UNESCAP-lead project in 2009-2010 USD 593’000 UNECE share is 95’000 UNESCAP share is 498’000 The UNECE’s share focuses on development of statistical MDG-indicators One expert group meeting on disaggregation of MDG indicators in Astana in September 2009 One training workshop on the agreed disaggregated MDG indicators for Central Asian countries in spring 2010 23 March 2009

Supporting improved information on Migration issues funded by the UN Development Account, 6th Tranche Global UNECLAC-lead project USD > 1’000’000 UNECE share is around 170’000 UNECE’s share focuses on development of statistical indicators Better availability and quality of data on international migration Strengthening evidence-based policymaking and research in the field of international migration, through the involvement of key users of statistics on international migration and the promotion of empirical research on it 23 March 2009

Supporting improved information access on Violence against Women funded by the UN Development Account, 6th Tranche Global UNECLAC-lead project USD > 736’000 UNECE share is 145’000 UNECE’s share focuses on development of statistical indicators Two meetings of a UNECE Task Force on VaW Testing a module to measure VaW to be introduced in population based surveys Continuation of work, performed by UNECE in cooperation with its member countries over the years on gender statistics 23 March 2009

With Technical Cooperation to a brighter future Thank you for your attention! petteri.baer@unece.org 23 March 2009