Under the theme “Unlocking Africa’s Data Potential,” the event will take place at the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) until November 1.

The meeting aims to foster linkages among countries, partners, and institutions that support such activities, to address the needs for national statistical systems for technical and financial resources to accelerate transformation and modernization, ECA stated in a press release.

The event brought together heads of African national statistical offices, representatives of regional economic communities, and regional statistical training centers, among others. The 10th Meeting of the United Nations Regional Committee on Global Geospatial Information Management for Africa, aimed at fostering cooperation and partnerships to improve the use of such data in decision-making, is running parallel to the event.

Both events are held in conjunction with the 4th Global Expert Forum for Producers and Users of Disaster-Related Statistics and the Forum on Statistical Economic Development in Africa (FASDev), under the theme “Strengthening the mobilization of technical and financial resources to support innovation in statistical development in Africa.”

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