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Capacity-building activities: Transport Statistics as a tool for assessing economic development. Martine Sophie FOUVEZ Regional Adviser for Transport Item 7 Working Party on Transport Statistics Geneva, 14-16 May, 2012. Background.
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Capacity-building activities:Transport Statistics as a tool for assessing economic development Martine Sophie FOUVEZRegional Adviser for Transport Item 7 Working Party on Transport StatisticsGeneva, 14-16 May, 2012
Background 1st WebCoQ questionnaire WorkshopAlmaty (Kazakhstan) 16 September, 2010 • Inter secretariat cooperation of EUROSTAT, UNECE • Transport Statisticians of KZ, KY and UZ Follow-up WorkshopAlmaty (Kazakhstan) 21 April,2011 • Delegates of AFG, ARZ, KZ and TJ 2ndWebCoQ questionnaire Workshop Baku (Azerbaijan) 9 December, 2011 • Inter secretariat cooperation of OECD/ITF, UNECE • Transport Statisticians of AZ and RUS . M.S.Fouvez
Why Central Asian countries? To raise awareness of Eastern and Central Asian countries on the necessity to provide coherent and consistent inland transport statistics M.S.Fouvez
Next Steps A concept note on TransportStatistics as a tool for assessing economic developmentDecember, 2012 • Christian Reynaud - NESTEAR Publication of the report as a means for raising awareness in countries not participating in WP6 work => mandate to be given by WP6 M.S.Fouvez
Transport Statistics as a tool for assessing economic development [Informal document WP.6 No. 8 (2012)] • Eight Central Asian countries considered : • Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. • Three main conditions for reliability and accuracy: • a return of information , • accurate “formats” for data collection, • Progressivity. M.S.Fouvez
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES WITH TRANSITION ECONOMIES 3rdWebCoQ questionnaire Workshop2ndHalf, 2012 • At the request of a Host country • Inter secretariat cooperation of OECD/ITF, EUROSTAT, UNECE • WP6 participants - Volunteers involved? • Open to Transport Statisticians of SPECA and CIS countries M.S.Fouvez