1. UN-ESCWA Juraj Riecan Director, UN-ESCWA Statistics Division

2. UN-ESCWA Capacity development it is not only training Capacity development it is not only training Skills Infrastructure Knowledge Experience Cooperation Institutional setup Institutional setup Legal framework Legal framework Organizational plattform Organizational plattform

3. UN-ESCWA Post 2015 development agenda:  Broader than the Millennium agenda  Higher demand for statistical evidence  Comparable but with a local focus Photo: World Bank

4. UN-ESCWA  Societal development and well being  Human rights  Governance

5. UN-ESCWA  International reporting / lack of national ownerhip  Data variations: national vs. international  Detached from national policy issues  Top-down vs. Bottom-up approach

6. UN-ESCWA Abundance of data from NGOs, private research, Big Data etc.:

7. UN-ESCWA  Public good, available to all users  Impartiality (no bias towards sponsors)  Professionalism, reliability  Consistency and comparability UNITED NATIONS FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF OFFICIAL STATISTICS 1992 1994 2013  Public good, available to all users  Impartiality (no bias towards sponsors)  Professionalism, reliability  Consistency and comparability UNITED NATIONS FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF OFFICIAL STATISTICS 1992 1994 2013

8. UN-ESCWA  UN ESCWA  League of Arab States  Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics  SESRIC (Organization for Islamic Cooperation)  Development banks (IsDB, WB)  IMF / METAC  UN agencies  European Union and OECD

9. UN-ESCWA  Limited availability of data  Coordination between various producers of data  Linking policy areas needs with statistical programmes – making statistics effective tool in policy making  Implementation of the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics  Use of administrative registers and records  Data quality frameworks

10. UN-ESCWA  System of National Accounts and integrated economic statistics  Civil registration and vital statistics  Labour statistics, incl. quality of work  Environment statistics and System of Environment Economic Accounting (SEEA)  Agriculture and rural development statistics  Gender sensitive indicators  Governance  Human rights

11. UN-ESCWA  Stakeholders:  National and local policy makers  Civil society  International community  National capacity building  National coordination – role of the national statistical office  Cost efficiency – in order to produce more and higher frequency data  Administrative data & statistical registers

12. UN-ESCWA  Linking statistical and geospatial information  Spatial analysis  Identifying geographical disparities  Geo-referenced data  Regional Committee for UN-GGIM for Arab States

13. UN-ESCWA http://escwa-stat.orgriecan@un.org