At the start of 2020, COVID-19 has spread across the world at an unyielding pace. What began as global jitters has evolved into unprecedented disturbances in the economy, health systems and daily life. In Asia and the Pacific, the impacts of the pandemic have reverberated soundly among its population of more than 4 billion and in its network of vital supply chains.
The COVID-19 pandemic will threaten the successful conduct of censuses in many countries through delays, interruptions that compromise quality, or complete cancellation of census projects. Domestic and donor financing for census may be diverted to address COVID-19 leaving census without crucial funds. Several countries have already taken decisions to postpone the census, with many others yet to announce the way forward.
Website providing a space for the global statistical community to share guidance, actions, tools and best practices to ensure the operational continuity of data programmes by National Statistical Offices, and to address issues of open and timely access to critical data needed by governments and all sectors of society to respond to the global COVID-19 crisis.
This technical brief from UNFPA encourages upcoming census rounds to include core questions on country of birth, country of citizenship, duration of stay, and reason for migration, in addition to advocating for the greater release of population and census data.
The Hub supports the systematic accumulation of knowledge in migration studies. It aims to be the go-to resource for finding knowledge on migration, from the latest literature to the most appropriate topical experts.
The Primero project began in 2013 as the result of many years of inter-agency collaboration. Its goal is to bring more coherent, cost effective, and user friendly information management tools to the Social Welfare, Child Protection and Gender Based Violence sectors.
Hub provided by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) promoting the exploration, analysis, and use of authoritative SDG data sources for evidence-based decision-making and advocacy. Its goal is to enable data providers, managers and users to discover, understand, and communicate patterns and interrelationships in the wealth of SDG data and statistics that are now available.
PARIS21 has launched a pioneering approach to capacity development — Capacity Development 4.0 – that goes beyond technical skills and places an emphasis on leadership, change management, advocacy and networking. These are the first guidelines to advise national statistical offices and development cooperation agencies on how to engage in country-led, sustainable and participative statistical capacity development.