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Overview of webinar: The increased frequency and severity of disasters continues to adversely impact the well-being of people across countries, including through ever-increasing economic losses. High quality and timely statistics are needed to better inform policy makers, disaster response managers and the public at large to better prepare for and respond to disasters.

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

We are pleased to invite you to the launch of the 2020 edition of Revenue Statistics in Asian and Pacific Economies on 23 July 2020, at 8.00-9.00am Paris time / 2.00-3.00 pm Manila time / 6.00-7.00pm Fiji time. The launch will discuss:

​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:

• Pacific Island examples of approaches to census taking and experiences on access and use of registers/administrative data in the census.
  What admin data might potentially be available and useful – any barriers (e.g. capacity, legal issues etc.).
• Next steps: guidance on approach to phase 2 of the project.