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AGRIS Training Plan
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Regional Steering Committee Meeting on the Action Plan for Africa
December 5-7, 2017 Kigali, Rwanda
The objective of the meeting is to bring together members of the Regional Steering Committee to facilitate a broader consultation on the Action Plan for Africa.
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Training of Trainers
December 4-7, 2017 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Brief description of the meeting Training of Trainers on Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Livestock
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Workshop on Effective Use of Administrative Data
Eca Delivered a Training for Trainers on the “Effective Use of Administrative Data in Agricultural Statistics” in Lusaka, Zambia from 19-23 June 2017.

The training was organized in partnership with the National Statistical Office of Zambia. The training of trainers was developed for the first time based on the guidelines of the Global Office-Research Component. The training brought together participants mostly from universities and statistical training centers from the following countries: South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda, Namibia, The Gambia, Sudan, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, Libya, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Egypt, and Zambia. For country perspectives, Mr. Itani Magwaba of Statistics South Africa and Mr. Dingiswayo Banda, Chief Economist in the Ministry of Agriculture (Planning Division), Zambia have presented their respective country experiences.
The training covered specific topics such as the importance of administrative data for agricultural & rural statistics, potential sources of administrative data, examples of administrative sources (participating countries experiences, challenges and limitations of administrative data, roles of administrative data in sampling and estimation, quality of ad and the way forward, scientific approaches for adjusting or improving ad before use, methodology for obtaining the data, decentralization and levels of information management calculations, efficient use of ad, survey design and model — assisted weighting methods, combining multiple data sources, analysis and inference with multiple data sources, as well as methodological and technical tools for data integration. The training also benefited from a filed visit to Zambia’s CSO to gain from the practical experiences of Zambia. The event was officially opened by the remarks of Mr. John Kalumbi, Director General of Central Statistical Office of Zambia and introductory remarks by Mr. Said Adejumobi – Director ECA-Sub-Regional Office of South Africa. The trainings benefited from detailed country experiences on the effective use of administrative data in agricultural statistics.
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Training of Trainers Workshop on Agricultural Statistics: Food Balance Sheets
From 7 to 11 August, 2017 Gaborone, Botswana

In this quarter, the training component focused on extending the implementation of the training of trainers to additional universities, training centers as well as NSOs and Ministries of Agriculture. Three training of trainer workshops on the topics of Effective use of Administrative Data, Food Balance Sheets in English and French have been delivered. The trainings have been generously hosted by the respective national statistical offices of Statistic Botswana, National Statistical Institutes of Morocco and Tunisia. The three workshops have served almost 80 participants from a total of 21 African Countries. Institution wise, an extensive reach has been undertaken in inviting new and active universities working in Agricultural Statistics training and research across the various sub-regions in the continent.
The main objectives of this Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop was to give the participants the skills and competencies necessary for producing and using as a team a Food Balance sheet based on agricultural censuses and surveys that allow easy integration of the data from various areas of statistics, including demographic statistics and other economic statistics.
The ToT was primarily designed to serve Statistical Training Centers, Schools, and Universities as well as national statistical offices and Ministries of agriculture dealing with the production and contributing to the development of National Food Balance Sheets in their respective countries. Some selected NSOs were invited to present their experiences as practical showcase. The participants for this training were drawn from statistical training Centers and Universities such as L’Institut Sous-régional de Statistique et d’Economie Appliquée (ISSEA)- Cameroun, Institut De formation Et de Recherche Demographiques (IFORD)- Cameroun, Haremaya University- Harar, Ethiopia, Makerere University – Kampala, Uganda , Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS)- Egypt, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Khartoum, Sudan; Fisheries Hatchery Management, Aquatic Pollution and Toxicology, University of IBADAN- Nigeria ; University of Nairobi, Faculty of Agriculture, Nairobi, Kenya ; University of Namibia, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Windhoek, Namibia; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Zambia, Lusaka Zambia ; School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. The National Statistical Offices from the following countries were also integral part of the training of trainers: Lesotho, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Gambia, Libya, Rwanda, and South Sudan
The workshop was officially opened by Ms. Ms Anna Majelantle, Statistics General of the National Statistics Office of Botswana. In her opening Ms. Majelantle stated FBS were the main source of data used in the assessment and appreciation of the world food situation and they were also suitable in estimating the overall food shortages or surplus in a country. “They are useful in developing projections of future food supply and demand as well as evaluating national food and nutrition policies,” she said, adding that FBS provided sound baseline data for policy analysis and decision-making needed to ensure food security. She said they expected the workshop to result with better understanding of the requirements for producing and using FBS to enhance statistics on agriculture and to improve physical scope of official statistics by mainstreaming agricultural statistics within the national statistical systems of Africa. On the other hand, she said this would ultimately result in an enhanced capacity of African national statistical systems that produced and disseminated high quality agricultural statistics.1
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1 Goweditswe Kome: 08 August 2017, “Development stakeholders collaborate to improve agricultural statistics “Botswana Daily News. http://www.dailynews.gov.bw/news-details.php?nid=37681
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Global Strategy Mid-Term Conference
The High-Level Global Strategy Mid-Term Conference is a three-day meeting focused on highlighting the programme’s achievements to date and engaging stakeholders in the planning process of the next phase. (more…)
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Guidelines on Strategic Plans for Agricultural and Rural Statistics (SPARS)
These guidelines are the result of a comprehensive effort to develop a standard methodology to design strategic plans for agricultural and rural statistics in line with the NSDS methodology developed by PARIS21.
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Third meeting of the Regional Steering Committee (RSTC) of the Africa Action Plan (2011-2017)
The 3rd RSTC Meeting of the Action Plan for Improving Statistics for Food Security, Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa was held from 30 April to 1 May 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya. The objectives of the meeting were to (i) review the progress made in the implementation of the Action Plan, (ii) discuss and endorse the Country Assessment results, (iii) discuss and approve the 2014 regional work plan and budget, and (iv) discuss and agree on improved coordination arrangements for the implementation of the Action Plan.
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Brochure
The Global Strategy Brochure is now available in English, French and Spanish
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