Capacity Development
Technical assistance mission on the production of population estimates and projections for Burundi
Overview
The United Nations Population Division organized a technical mission to improve the capacity of the staff of the Institut de Statistiques et d'Etudes économiquees du Burundi (ISTEEBU) in the production and use of population estimates and projections for evidence-based policy making for sustainable development.Ìý
Organization of work
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Technical assistance mission on the production of population estimates and projections for Niger
Overview
The United Nations Population Division organized a technical mission in Niger to improve the capacity of the staff of the Institut National de la Statistique, Minister of Health, Minister of Education, and Minister of Agriculture in the production and use of population estimates and projections for evidence-based policy making for sustainable development.
Workshop on population estimates and projections for Namibia
Overview
Technical staff from the Namibia Statistics Agency, government line ministries (Planning, Education, Health, and Immigration), and researchers from higher education institutions were trained in methods for assessing the quality of demographic statistics, projecting the national population, and projecting sub-national (regional) populations.
Workshop on measuring population ageing and assessing its economic and fiscal consequences
Overview
National workshop on population projections
Overview
The Population Division organized a training workshop to improve national capacity in population projections. The workshop was held at GEOSTAT (National Statistics Office of Georgia) in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 20 to 24 May 2019. Participants were trained in methods and software (DAPPS) for national and sub-national population projections.
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Latin America and the Caribbean workshop on assessing the economic and fiscal consequences of population ageing
Overview
Achievement of an inclusive economic development that leaves no one behind requires good investment and good planning. Because achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 also means ensuring their sustainability beyond 2030, training in the use of long-run population, economic, and fiscal forecasts is an important component of capacity development as envisioned by Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing.Ìý
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Latin America training workshop on assessing the economic and fiscal consequences of the aging population
Measuring the SDG indicator on countries with well-managed migration policies
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The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and the Organization for International Migration (IOM) have been collaborating in the development of the methodology and measurement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator 10.7.2 on well-managed migration policies, to inform the global evaluation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.