1. REPORT ON INTER-AGENCY COMMITEE MEETINGS
Presented by: Miss Alarice Fenton
Assistant Statistician
Statistics Department Montserrat
Ministry of Finance & Economic Management

2. Sensitizing
The Department is now on a sensitizing mission regarding the advancement of data collection for the environmental statistics and indicators. Prior to the announcement of this workshop there were no meetings with stakeholders. We recently met with stakeholders one on one.
We did not attend the previous workshops.
We are now advancing the 2011/2012 work plan.

3. Dates of Inter-Agency Meeting
Meeting with Environmental Health Department
18/3/2014 & 24/3/2014

4. Brief overview of the content of discussion – Environment Health Department
Types and frequency of data collected by the EHD
Storage facilities
Requirements of both departments (SDM& EHD)
Challenges faced by EHD
International and local Statistics and Indicators

5. Indicators obtained/expected to be obtained
EHD
Obtained
Vector Control Data
Expected
Environmental Related Diseases
Complaints data
Vector Control – Not a requirement for the CSMDG’s . This is the only data that has been properly collected with a rich time series spanning from 19… to present.
Although we didn’t meet with The Environment Department we have collected some data on Forestry.

6. Proposed date of next meeting
Environment Health Department – Presently reviewing the environment statistics and indicators of the SDM to which they will propose the date for our next meeting
The meeting is expected to be held in this Month
Environment Department - Meeting scheduled for the 22/4/ We could not have met earlier due to other commitments and staffing issues faced by both Departments.

7. Challenges - Statistics Department
Human Resource Challenges
Communicating with EHD
The department has 6 staff – One Statistician, Two assistant Statistician, Computer Systems Officer, Statistician Cadet and Senior Clerical Officer
Still without a director and Statistician
Communication issues – No clerical officer to receive calls, staff are field officers and computers are not functioning and as such affects the response rate when we try to communicate via .

8. Challenges - Environmental Health
No clerical staff
Out dated equipment
Necessary equipment are not functioning
No access to GoM’s secured Drives
No centralised mechanism for storing data
Under reporting – Only major complaints are recorded
Majority are field workers
All field officers take their quire books and there are no compilation of the data collected. These quire books are not properly stored. Office is generally left open to public.
Only major complaints are recorded

9. The Way Forward
Continue to liaise with the departments and concretize the activities of all stakeholders

10. THE END
THANK YOU