SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug 25, CMC -Caribbean countries are expected to be represented at the 23rd meeting of the executive committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA) that gets underway here on Wednesday.
Along with the Dominican Republic as Chair, the SCA’s executive committee is made up of Argentina, The Bahamas, Grenada, Mexico, Peru, Spain and Uruguay.
The two-day meeting will allow for representatives of Latin America and the Caribbean’s national statistical institutes to analyze progress on the statistical cooperation programme.
They will also review the regional challenges that must be addressed in the new 2026-2035 Strategic Plan of the Statistical Conference of the Americas and will examine progress on the implementation of the 2024-2025 Biennial Programme of Regional and International Cooperation Activities.
The meeting will be inaugurated on Wednesday, and will be addressed by the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commissioner Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs as well as Miosotis Rivas Peña, the Director-General of the National Office of Statistics of the Dominican Republic.
Prior to the opening of the meeting, the regional seminar on innovations in the population and housing census of the 202 Round looking towards the 2030 Round will take place on Tuesday.
“The objective of this event is to share innovations from the 2020 census round and lessons learned from the perspective of directors of national statistical offices. It also seeks to contribute to the planning of the 2030 census round, enhancing lessons learned and capacities acquired in light of the results and challenges,” ECLC said.
The SCA is a subsidiary body of ECLAC and the main forum for discussing the development of statistics in the region. Its principal mandates include promoting the development and improvement of national statistics and their international comparability, along with international, regional and bilateral cooperation between national offices and international and regional agencies.
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