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The Secretariat
General of the Planning Council
organizes the Second Symposium on
Statistics for Development:
Dialogue between Users and Producers
Doha, 16-19 May 2005 |
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The Secretariat General of the Planning Council, in cooperation with the
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), is to organize
the second Symposium on Statistics for Development: Dialogue between
Users and Producers. The Symposium will be inaugurated at 9:00 am,
Monday 16 May 2005, at the “Al Fayrouz” hall of the “Doha Marriot”, and
will continue until 19 May.
The Symposiums aims at an increase in public awareness of the role and
importance of statistics in development, and an assessment and
improvement of its availability to users.
In addition to representatives of government agencies and local public
and private companies, representatives of regional and international
organizations will be invited.
Papers will be presented by national speakers and visiting experts from
specialized United Nations agencies. The Statistics Department will
submit a paper on its strategic accomplishments during the past year,
including the implementation of the recommendations of the 2004
symposium. The UN visiting experts will present papers on the nature and
importance of statistical reporting in their fields of specialization,
and the roles of national statistical agencies in supporting development
and promoting serious and purposeful dialogue between users and
producers of statistics.
The first day of the Symposium will be dedicated to a celebration of the
twenty fifth jubilee of the foundation of the statistics organization in
Qatar, and a review of various statistical developmental projects in
Qatar during the recent past. The second day will be devoted to the
presentation of working papers. The third day will be allocated to
round-table discussions between users and producers of statistics in
Qatar, in which visiting experts will take an active part, and in which
several areas of mutual interest will be covered, most important among
them: demand, availability and needs of statistics; human development
indices;, millennium development goals; gender, poverty and environment
statistics; and a statistics strategy for the future.
Specific recommendations for action, which will be the main outcome of
the Symposium, will be discussed during the fourth day. Such
recommendations should form the basis of a plan of action for the
improvement of existing statistics, upgrading of their timeliness and
publication, and better provision for user requirements, specially in
areas not previously covered by censuses and surveys. |
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For more information , Please contact us
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email :
webmaster@planning.gov.qa |
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Tel : +974 4381222 |
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Fax : +974 4445573 |
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