The State of Qatar is going to participate in the 48th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission measuring member countries progress towards achieving the economical, social and environmental goals of Sustainable Development Agenda.
The meeting will be held at the UN headquarters in New York city from tomorrow till Friday. The Qatari delegation will be headed by H E Dr Saleh Mohamed Salem Al Nabit, Minister of Development Planning and Statistics.
On the sidelines of the 48th session, Minister Al Nabit will meet the director of the United Nations Statistics Division and the director of the UN Transformative Agenda for Official Statistics to consult and agree on the start date of the implementation of the project of official statistics transformation in Qatar, which is expected to be launched by next April.
Dr Al Nabit will also meet a number of heads of regional and international statistical agencies to discuss the latest updates on upgrading the statistical process, as well as exchange experiences and share successful lessons.
This project is based on the request of the UN to the State of Qatar to join the project of Transformative Agenda for Official Statistics being a leading state in this field.
The Qatari delegation to the meeting will discuss the proposed mechanisms to upgrade the national statistical systems and methodologies, to articulate effective statistical policies that take into consideration the national and international needs of the sustainable development process in order to benefit from the technical support provided by the UN and its organisations.
By participating in the 48th session, Qatar aims to learn about the latest developments related to the Sustainable Development Agenda and the indicators approved by the UN Statistical Commission said the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics yesterday in statement.
The session agenda covers several important topics related to the role of statistical data in the sustainable development process, the development of statistical data methodologies and sources, and methods of dissemination and access to users in a timely manner. The meeting will discuss several important issues such as the quality assurance in the global statistical system, and will shed light on the basic principles of official statistics and prepare for the next round of household surveys, as well as discuss several other related topics.
