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4 April 2018, Geneva, Switzerland - The StaTact came to Africa last week when 10 countries participated in its roll-out during dedicated regional workshops. UNITAR and UN Statistics Division teamed up with UNECA African Centre for Statistics and UNDP to deliver two two-day workshops - one in English and one in French – with a focus on the governance of data ecosystems for the SDGs. The first workshop brought together government officials from Ethiopia, Liberia, Malawi, Sudan, and Uganda representing National Statistical Offices, Planning Ministries, selected line Ministries...
Together with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), a microlearning video called “Bet on Sustainable Transport” around the topic of policy coherence has been developed that explains the concept through an example of sustainable public transport.
With the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), another video entitled “Hidden Treasures Supermarket” was collaboratively developed on the human rights-based approach to date. It shows cases of the importance of this approach w...
In April-May 2019, Small Island Developing States in the Asia-Pacific region will use StaTact: a new web-based tool developed by UNITAR and the UN Statistics Division (UNSD) to support short-term statistical planning leveraging SDG, regional and national indicators. Country groups of officials from National Statistical Offices, Planning, Finance and selected line Ministries as well as representatives of non-traditional data sources will carry out action planning to address pressing SDG data gaps in the context of StaTact workshops to be held in Sidney and Nadi from 23 April...
A solid and proactive engagement with partners is instrumental to achieving effective, efficient and sustainable results. In accordance with General Assembly resolution 79/228, UNITAR views partnerships as “voluntary and collaborative relationships between various parties, both public and non-public, in which all participants agree to work together to achieve a common purpose or undertake a specific task and, as mutually agreed, to share risks and responsibilities, resources and benefits.”Partnerships may be donation-based, may support project implementation or may be chara...
25 April 2025, Geneva, Switzerland - A side event “New approaches to ensure needs based and sustainable statistical training” held before the opening of the 56th session of the UN Statistical Commission has been an opportunity to discuss the work of the Global Network of Institutions for Statistical Training (GIST) in supporting National Statistical Offices to adopt country-owned, innovative and sustainable approaches to capacity-building. Four countries have shared their experiences, including Kenya, Morocco, Seychelles that used the STAT tool developed by GIST in 2024, an...
In January 2021, UNITAR, in conjunction with UN ESCAP, UNDESA and UNDP, will be delivering an introductory training on “Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFF) for Sustainability Recovery from the COVID-19 Crisis and for Achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” for countries of North and Central Asia.
The training, which will take place between 18-27 January 2021, comprises seven sessions that will cover a wide range of relevant topics such as the INFF inception phase and building blocks, SDG costing, planning and budgeting, themed bonds, and differen...
On 13 – 15 March 2019 Grenada has become the first country to use a newly developed web-based version of the StaTact tool during a national workshop organized by UNITAR and UN Statistics Division (UNSD) together with the Central Statistical Office of Grenada (CSO). As a result of the workshop, 6 twelve-month action plans have been developed to address a bottleneck or kickstart a process in such diverse areas as as agricultural statistics, gender-based violence and child abuse, epidemiology surveillance system, education, disaster-related data collection system and environme...
Following the successful piloting of StaTact with 14 African and Asian countries using regional format, StaTact has now been rolled out at national level. Suriname became the first pilot country to have organized a national StaTact workshop to address critical data gaps and plan actions in support of SDG monitoring over the next 12 months. This is also the first pilot addressing the special needs of the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean region.
On 20-22 June 2018, the General Bureau of Statistics (GBS) of Suriname, UNITAR and UN Statistics Division (UN...
On 11 – 12 June 2019 Kampala, Uganda - The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) together with UNITAR and UN Statistics Division in collaboration with UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) held a national StaTact workshop in Kampala, Uganda. This workshop was initiated to review selected challenges related to the implementation of the Extension of the UBOS Strategic Plan for Statistics 2018 – 2020 in its pre-final year and train participants on the use of tactical approach and StaTact in their work., Around 50 participants from UBOS, Ministry of Gender, Labour and Socia...
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