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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.

The Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) is an annual and inclusive intergovernmental forum and a regional platform for supporting countries, 

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 meeting will cover:

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

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

• 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.