1. REGIONAL EXPERIENCES OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL SOUTH AFRICA By Richard Dackam Ngatchou UNFPA CST Dakar

2. UNFPA CST Role  Desk review to identify common problems within the region  Publication on Strategies for Reducing Census Costs – UNFPA/TSS Task Force Group, 1996  Organizing Regional Workshops to solve common problems within the region  Promoting South/South Cooperation

3. Regional Workshop  1997 Geographic Information System (GIS)  1998 Data processing IMPS  1999 Managing Census Process  Analysis/Tabulation Plan  Utilization of Census Output (Data, Result)  2000 Post Enumeration Survey (PES)

4. South/South Cooperation  Senegal & Cape Verde  Cameroon & Chad  Cameroon & Equatorial Guinea  CAR & Chad

5. Using Regional Institute of Population Training  Institut de Formation et de Recherche Demographiques (IFORD)  Demographic analysis training - focus on census data  On the job training  Thematic analysis  Final analysis workshop (assessment of analysis draft report)

6. The Way Forward  Operational Research on Reducing Census Costs  Sharing experiences on new thematic areas  Children  Ageing  Women  Indirect measurement of poverty (Region/Household)  In-depth analysis  Using census results