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​International recommendations/standards, contemporary technologies and regional cooperation

'Forum Leaders mandated a strengthening of the regional institutional framework for ocean governance and policy coordination by establishing a Pacific Ocean Commissioner to provide the necessary high-level representation and commitment – to ensure dedicated advocacy and attention to ocean priorities, decisions and processes at national, regional and international levels.

The meeting will cover:

Mr Ramrakha Detenamo from the Nauru Bureau of Statistics will be attached to the Statistics for Development Division of the Pacific Community from 25^th–29^th November 2019 to update International Merchandise Trade Statistics from 2016 to 2018 currently being done remotely.

Provide Nauru Mini-Census/Listing CAPI training & Peer-to-Peer participant support.

Asia-Pacific Statistics Week from 15-18 June 2020 as a virtual event. All members of the statistical community are welcome.

Background

​Areas to be covered

• Introduction to the scope, aims and format of the project.
  Outline of the programme.
• Background to census approaches (UN), developments in traditional censuses in recent years, summary of countries using different methods.

​Areas to be covered:

• The Netherlands register-based census: Rationale, approaches, pros and cons and key experiences and lessons learnt.
• National Strategies for the development of Statistics (NSDSs); a critical requirement in strengthening use of administrative data/registers for official statistics.
• A synthesis of key insights and lessons learnt from the a

​Areas to be covered

• Establishing, running and using population registers: The Norwegian experience.
• Civil registration systems in the Pacific; A Critical foundation for functional population registers.
• The journey towards application of combined methods for 2020 Population Census: Experience from Indonesia.