SIAP Newsletter, June 2023

Dear colleagues,

It is my pleasure to share with you the 2nd SIAP Newsletter for 2023 in a new format which I hope you will find more user friendly. Over the past few months, in collaboration with national and international partners we have organized several events including trainings on leadership for senior managers and SDGs for practitioners. More details about recent events can be found below. In this month's issue of the newsletter, you will also find information about our upcoming courses.

Please do share this newsletter with your teams.

Best wishes
Shailja Sharma
Director, SIAP

In This Issue

Recent activities

Regional Training Course on Big Data for SDGs

10 countries attended the regional workshop The Regional Training Course on Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals took place from 19 to 23 June in Daejeon Republic of Korea, and was conducted by the Statistical Institute... here.

SIAP and UNSD, in collaboration with the Philippines Statistics Authority (PSA) organize SEEA workshop

UNSD and SIAP, in collaboration with the Philippines Statistical Authority (PSA), organized an in-person regional workshop on SEEA Ecosystem Accounting in Manila, the Philippines. The workshop provided an opportunity for over 50 participants from 13 countries to increase their technical knowledge of SEEA EA, the recently adopted international statistical standard.... here.

6th Meeting of the Sub-Group on Gender Statistics Training

Representatives of national statistics offices, statistical training institutes and gender experts agreed on the approach for reviewing and enhancing the content of the Gender Statistics Training Curriculum to further bolster its uptake and use... here.

Regional Training Workshop on Enhancing Statistical Leadership for Heads of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) in Asia and The Pacific

With the increased and evolving demand for data from national development plans, Agenda 2030 for sustainable development goals, the current and post crisis affecting the World, including COVID-19 and climate change; National statistical offices (NSOs) continue to be at the forefront of developing and coordinating national statistical systems (NSS) as well as engaging with the larger.... here.

Building capacity to monitor SDG 4

Twenty-two participants from Asia and the Pacific enhanced their capacity to understand education data for use in SDG monitoring and policy making. This ...here.

Webinars on Indicators on business performance related to well-being and sustainability

Businesses play a very important role toward sustainability and wellbeing. The UN Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics (UN CEBTS) recognized the need to measure the role of businesses toward sustainability and wellbeing...here.

Subregional Training on Gender Statistics for Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals

During the week of 29 May to 2 June, a training on gender statistics was held in Seoul Republic of Korea for Pacific Island Countries (PICs). The Subregional Training on Gender Statistics ...here.

Over 400 participants successfully complete e-learning course on water statistics and accounts

Over 400 participants from 23 countries successfully completed the facilitated e-learning course on water statistics and accounts. The facilitated course...here.

Around 100 participants completed the SDG 9 e-learning course successfully!

Around 100 participants from 29 countries successfully completed the facilitated e-learning course on SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. The course, developed jointly by UN SIAP and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)... here.

Upcoming Events

Advanced Data Visualization for Official Statistics and SDG Indicators, 03 - 28 July, 2023

This course is an advanced course in data visualization, conceived as an extension to SIAP's facilitated course "Data Visualization for Official Statistics and SDG indicators" conducted in 2021 and 2022 or, alternatively, to the self-paced course "Principles of Data Visualization for Official Statistics and SDG Indicators " available on SIAP's e-learning platform...here.

Disasters continue to have an ever-increasing impact on life, well-being and sustainable development. Given these impacts, there is a high demand at the local, national and international levels for high quality, integrated statistics to inform all phases of the disaster risk management cycle...here.

Compiling of indicators of business performance related to selected social aspects of well-being and sustainability, September 2023

Historically business statistics have focused very much in measuring the economic performance and competitiveness of businesses. However, businesses play a very important role toward sustainability and wellbeing. Since its establishment in 2018, the UN Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics (UN CEBTS) recognized the need...here.

In the spotlight

Self-paced course spotlight: Environmental SDG course availability in English, French and Russian

This self-paced e-learning course contains 10 modules developed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). In September 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit adopted an international framework to guide development efforts, entitled "Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development". The Agenda is built around 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), divided into 169 targets, which are informed by 244 Indicators. The importance of improving the availability of and access to data and statistics related to the environment was recognized through the adoption of a wide range of environmental SDG targets and indicators...here

Training Resource

SIAP E-learning System

SIAP offers a range of e-learning courses across the domains of social, environment and economic statistics; data science; and statistical principles and methodologies. These courses are facilitated and supported by an expert in the field to the participants through regular communication in discussion box and through webinar(s) during the period of course delivery. A certificate is issued to successful participants completing the course after passing the prescribed examination.

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