The eleventh Forum on Statistical Development in Africa (FASDev) kicked off in Addis Ababa under the theme: “Strengthening the Mobilization of Technical and Financial Resources to Support Innovation in Statistical Development in Africa.”
The meeting aims to foster connections between countries, partners, and institutions that support statistics, in order to address the needs of national statistical systems for technical and financial resources to accelerate the transformation and modernization of these systems.
The meeting will also provide an overview of the challenges faced by countries and identify the needs of national statistical systems to develop and implement transformation and modernization programs. There will also be discussions on the opportunities and mechanisms offered by institutions, partners, and pan-African organizations to support countries in their statistical development.
“Over the years, FASDev which is being held back to back with STATCOM, has established links between producers of official statistics, statistical training centers, and partners supporting statistical development on our continent. These meetings have played a crucial role in contributing to the creation of partnerships for the development of statistics in Africa, leveraging the opportunity for more actors to support African countries in this area,” according to Oliver Chinganya, Director of the African Statistics Center of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).
