The 2030 Agenda offers a vision for food and agriculture as key to sustainable development. Officials in the NSOs and agricultural ministries achieve knowledge on agricultural and rural statistics, fishery statistics and food statistics.
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□ Agricultural and rural statistics
□ Fishery statistics
□ Food statistics
This training course is designed to contribute to the following expected outputs of the Asia-Pacific Regional Action Plan of the Global Strategy:
. Increased ability of National Statistical System (NSS) to access and use ICT for production and dissemination of minimum set of agricultural and rural statistics;
. Improved capacity of countries to adopt cost-effective and reliable methods for producing a minimum set of agricultural and rural statistics.
This Training Course on Agricultural Cost of Production Statistics partly responds to this need.. It aims at building the capacity of statistical producing institutions in RAP’s priority countries and at training their statistical experts-cum-managers to compile high quality and internationally comparable agricultural cost of production statistics
The present policy analysis workshop: Transition towards Sustainable Agriculture in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – Strategic Implementation Follow Up and Review” is planned to respond to emerging challenges of Asia-Pacific developing countries and to assist enhancing national capacities for effectively making relevant policy decisions.
The regional training course aims to bring together statisticians and stakeholders to provide technical guidance on the selection and application of appropriate sampling methods for producing the minimum set of core data items for agricultural and rural statistics.
This training course is designed to contribute to the following expected outputs of the Asia-Pacific Regional Action Plan of the Global Strategy :
• Increased ability of National Statistical System (NSS) to access and use ICT for production and dissemination of minimum set of agricultural and rural statistics;
• Improved capacity of countries to adopt cost-effective and reliable methods for producing a minimum set of agricultural and rural statistics.
This training-of-trainers course is designed to contribute to the following expected outputs of the Asia-Pacific Regional Action Plan of the Global Strategy:
• Improve political support by decision-makers for agricultural and rural statistics in terms of provision of budget and resources and
• Enhance capacity of national statistical systems to advocate for adequate resources for developing and compiling country-specific minimum set of agricultural and rural statistics on a sustainable basis.
The main objective of the workshop is to improve institutional capacity of national statistical systems (NSSs) in designing, developing and delivering training on official statistics. The workshop also aims at piloting a ToT manual, including a generic template that can be utilized by training providers to develop specialized ToT manuals/guides.
The Second Regional Training Course on Sampling Methods for Producing Core Data Items for Agricultural and Rural Statistics will be held from 9 to 20 November 2015 in Jakarta, Republic of Indonesia. The regional training course is part of the training programme of the Asia-Pacific Regional Action Plan to Implement the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (RAP) and will be conducted in collaboration with the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and BPS-Statistics Indonesia of the Government of the Republic of Indonesia.
The Regional Workshop on Statistical Literacy: Increasing Effective Use of Agricultural and Rural Statistics will be held by the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), a regional institution of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), from 13 to 17 July 2015 in Daejeon, Republic of Korea. The workshop will be conducted in collaboration with RAP implementing partners and Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) of the Government of the Republic of Korea.
• Increasing understanding of the communication issues between the data producer and user that have an impact on the effective use of data for policy research and analysis and policy formulation and monitoring;
• Providing guidance in developing a business case and communication and advocacy strategy for promoting awareness of the role of agricultural and rural statistics for policy making and evaluation and increasing appreciation by policy makers and decision makers in government of the importance of allocating resources for quality agricultural and rural statistics; and
