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Main Conclusions of the Training Workshop on Disseminating MDG Indicators and Statistical Information. Astana, Kazakhstan, 23-25 November 2009 Petteri Baer, Regional Adviser, UNECE. Organizations represented in this Expert Group Meeting. The National Statistical Institutes of
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Main Conclusions of the Training Workshop on Disseminating MDG Indicators and Statistical Information Astana, Kazakhstan, 23-25 November 2009 Petteri Baer, Regional Adviser, UNECE
Organizations represented in this Expert Group Meeting • The National Statistical Institutes of • Armenia (2) Azerbaijan (2), Kazakhstan(10), Moldova (1), Mongolia (2), Russian Federation (2), Tajikistan (2), Ukraine (2) and Uzbekistan (2) • As Resource persons providing presentations • Petteri Baer and Steven Vale from UNECE • And additionally Azer Ahmedov, Lilia Racu and Dinara Zhandaeva
Outcome of the Training Workshop • We have all learnt a great lot about • Dissemination and marketing of MDG Indicators and statistical information as a strategic challenge • Building relations with different user categories & building trust • The importance of databases in the dissemination work – both externally and for providing good and rapid information services • The importance of metadata & user friendliness • Different software approaches for dissemination of statistical information • The importance of customer databases and the challenges of good customer relation management
Outcome of the Workshop (2) • We have also learned from each other new things about how to make the dissemination process more efficient • Steven Vale gave 6 and Petteri Baer 7 presentations • We had interesting case presentations from • Azerbaijan • Kazakhstan • …and especially from Moldova
Outcome of the Workshop (3) • Cornerstones of efficient dissemination • Good quality of the presented indicators • Together with good visual presentation • With sufficient metadata • Proactive dissemination • Easy accessibility • Modern dissemination tools & databases • All the factors are important at the same time!
Production and dissemination has a strong link to Statistical Capacity Building • MDG indicators are a part of normal reporting of a comprehensive set of official statistics • Proactive dissemination issues and building relations to different user categories is today appreciated more than earlier • The production possibilities are in direct relation to the statistical capacity of the NSI and other producers of official statistics • The support of the international organizations is of great value to the national production of MDG indicators
The facilities of this Expert Group Meeting • The venue of the meeting • In the Headquarters building of Statistics Kazakhstan in Astana has been excellent • Modern facilities • 2 + 1 cabinets for working groups • Good lunch & coffee/tea break service • A great thank to our Kazakh organizers, all involved staff members for good arrangements! • A great thank to the interpreters for good interpretation • Some problems with the translated slides; final slide material will be available on the UNECE web site
Thank you all ;-) • A great thank to all participants for active participation in the discussions! • And remember: • You cannot learn to swim if you don’t go into the water! • Only used statistics is useful statistics