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​International recommendations/standards, contemporary technologies and regional cooperation

In February 2019, the regional workshop titled “Gender Statistics in the Pacific: Establishing a Roadmap for better production and use of gender statistics to monitor the SDGs in the Pacific” took place in Denarau, Fiji, and brought together gender statistics focal points from national statistics offices (including two Government Statisticians), national gender offices, CSOs and development par

'The workshops are part of the one-year training programme aimed at strengthening the statistical capacities in the Asia-Pacific Small Island Developing States in the context of SDG monitoring requirements, and implemented in partnership with UN Statistics Division, the Pacific Community and UNESCAP.

'The workshops are part of the one-year training programme aimed at strengthening the statistical capacities in the Asia-Pacific Small Island Developing States in the context of SDG monitoring requirements, and implemented in partnership with UN Statistics Division, the Pacific Community and UNESCAP.

This training is a Peer-to-Peer technical collaborative exchange between Fiji Bureau of Statistics and Statistics for Development Division to the Papua New Guinea National Statistical Office on the compilation of International Merchandise Trade Statistics (IMTS) using best practice.

To run a similar workshop to the 2019 HIES Regional Sampling and Planning workshop, with a widening of the scope to include:

​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.

​Areas to be covered

• The Swedish register-based census: Rationale, approaches, pros and cons and key experiences and lessons learnt.
• Register-based censuses in the Nordic countries (i.e.