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Country / Regional Activity: Ethiopia
Date of Event: 2014-10-07
The Central Statistical Agency (CSA) of Ethiopia in collaboration with ADP/PARIS21 conducted a microdata outreach and advocacy workshop for data producers and users in Addis Ababa on 7th of October 2014....
Country / Regional Activity: Botswana, Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Rwanda
Date of Event: 2014-08-27
A Regional Workshop on Developing Data Dissemination Policies was held from 27 – 29 August 2014 in Kigali, Rwanda. Representatives from National Statistics Offices of eight countries attended the workshop, including: Botswana, Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda and South Africa. These countries are in different stages of developing their data dissemination policies. Among them Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa have full-fledged policies for disseminating microdata. Botswana, Burundi, Ghana and Malawi are countries without formal policies....
Country / Regional Activity: Global
Date of Event: 2014-06-26
The ADP held a regional workshop on data documentation and dissemination in the Southern Africa region from June 24-26. The DDP has engaged NSOs in all 15 countries of the Southern Africa Development Community in regional and national-level capacity development in microdata documentation and management. ADP is also supporting some of the countries in the development of dissemination policies, and facilitating country-level user/producer exchanges through microdata outreach workshops....
Country / Regional Activity: Global
Date of Event: 2013-06-10
A Regional Training workshop was held in Tunis, Tunisia on June 10 – 12, 2013 in the context of the launching of the NADA 4.0 by the International Household Survey Network (IHSN). This workshop was jointly organized by PARIS21 with the World Bank and the African Development Bank.
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Country / Regional Activity: Ethiopia
Date of Event: 2012-12-13
Ethiopia is the first African country to hit the bar of 100 surveys available in its national survey catalog. CSA was one of the first countries to join the ADP as early as 2006. Documentation, archiving and dissemination of surveys is now done as a routine exercise by CSA - as standard processes of every survey. This experience is being documented as "good practice" and will be published early 2013.
Visit CSA catalog: http://www.csa.gov.et/nada3/index.php/catalog
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Country / Regional Activity: Global
Date of Event: 2012-12-12
The Third Group Training Course in the Production and Development of Official Statistics (in support for National Development including the Achievement of MDGs) conducted by the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific in Chiba, Japan included a short module on microdata access and survey documentation. The 25 participants came from 15 countries, namely, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Iraq, Lao P.D.R., Lesotho, Micronesia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Samoa, Syria and Tanzania....
Country / Regional Activity: Global
Date of Event: 2012-06-18
The IHSN tools, guidelines and standards were introduced to the participants of the 3rd Group Training Course in Application of Information Management and Related ICT for Official Statistics conducted by the UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) in Chiba, Japan.
The course has 20 participants from 11 countries, namely: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cook Islands, Ethiopia, Georgia, Myanmar, Rwanda, Thailand. Timor-Leste, Uzbekistan and Viet Nam....
Country / Regional Activity: Global
Date of Event: 2011-02-07
The first "Regional training on the documentation and archiving of Agricultural Censuses and Surveys” was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 7-11 February 2011. The objective of the workshop was to train participants from 15 countries on the use the Microdata Management Toolkit for the documentation of Agricultural Census and Surveys, and to initiate the documentation of their latest agricultural census....
Country / Regional Activity: Global
Date of Event: 2010-10-18
As part of the implementation of the PARIS21/Accelerated Data Program (ADP), a four day workshop on the installation and management of the IHSN National Data Archive 3.0 (NADA 3.0) application was conducted in Nairobi Kenya. The workshop took place from 18th to 21st October 2010.
IT specialists and archive managers from the National Statistics Offices of Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania, Zambia, Swaziland, Nigeria, Southern Sudan, Liberia, Ghana, The Gambia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Malawi and Palestine took part....
Country / Regional Activity: Global
Date of Event: 2010-06-07
The IHSN Toolkit was one of the software included in the 1st Group Training Course in Application of Information Management and Related ICT for Official Statistics conducted by the UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) in Chiba, Japan. This is the second SIAP course to include the Toolkit. The course has 23 participants coming from 14 countries, namely: Armenia, Azerbaijan (2), Cook Islands, Ethiopia (2), India (3), Kosovo, Rwanda (2), Samoa (2), Solomon Islands (2), Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand (2), Uzbekistan (2) and Vietnam....
Date of Event: 2009-05-04
The Global Fund recently undertook a 5-Year Impact Evaluation (GF5YE) attempting to measure reduction of disease burden of Malaria, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis. The GF5YE implemented its evaluation through a Consortium of institution including: Marco International, WHO, Hopkins University, Harvard University and the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC)....