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Country / Regional Activity: Rwanda
Date of Event: 2015-04-16
Improving quality and dissemination of statistics is one of the strategic objectives of the Second National Strategy for Development of Statistics (2014-2018) of National Institute of Statistics Rwanda (NISR). In accordance to the principles set out in the NSDS, the NISR is committed to ensuring that survey microdata are made available to the public on an impartial basis through National Data Archive (NADA). The Accelerated Data Program (ADP) has been providing technical support to NISR to establish NADA and to build capacity in documenting and dissemination survey microdata....

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: Rwanda
Date of Event: 2014-02-17

The National Institute of Statistics Rwanda (NISR) organized a five-day Metadata Production Workshop in Huye, Rwanda on February 17 to 21, 2014. The ADP provided two facilitators to support the NISR in their efforts to document new surveys and strengthen NISR capacity on microdata documentation and NADA management. The workshop was facilitated by ADP regional consultants Ms. Lynn Woolfrey from DataFirst, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa and Mr. Biniyam Tadesse Awoke from Central Statistics Agency (CSA) of Ethiopia....

Country / Regional Activity: Rwanda
Date of Event: 2013-09-03

The ADP and the National Institute of Statistics Rwanda (NISR) hosted a series of Microdata Outreach Workshops in August to reach out to data users from National University of Rwanda (NUR) School of Public Health in Kigali, NUR in Butare, and INES Ruhengeri. Earlier in May 2013, NISR launched the National Data Archive (NADA) as a platform for disseminating survey and census microdata. With ADP support, NISR conducted Microdata Outreach Workshops as an innovative strategy for user advocacy and services....

Country / Regional Activity: Global
Date of Event: 2013-06-13
A Regional Training workshop was held in Tunis, Tunisia on June 13 – 15, 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. The workshop aimed to expose participants to the latest version of the NADA application which was recently released, to upgrade their existing NADAs and implement relevant quality enhancements to their systems and to discuss strategic and technical issues relating to microdata dissemination in general....

Country / Regional Activity: Rwanda
Date of Event: 2013-05-10
The National Institute of Statistics Rwanda (NISR), an ADP member since 2011, launched its National Data Archive (NADA) at the Open Access to Statistical Data Workshop held on May 10, 2013 in Kigali. The workshop was attended by the director General of NISR, data users, and Representatives from UN Rwanda, African Development Bank and OECD/PARIS21/ADP. NADA was presented as the platform for disseminating survey and census microdata. During the same workshop, NISR also launched tools for disseminating time-series data, including Statistical Data Portal, SDMX and Stat Alert....

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: Rwanda
Date of Event: 2012-02-13
The National Institute of Statistics Rwanda(NISR) with the support of the Accelerated Data Program facilitated a successful national training workshop on the documentation and dissemination of survey and census microdata. The NISR Director of the Statistical Methods, Research and Publication unit, opened the workshop and reiterated the need for organisations in the National Statistical System to work together so as to enhance the dissemination of statistics in Rwanda....

Country / Regional Activity: Global
Date of Event: 2011-12-08
The PARIS21 Secretariat and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) undertook a training workshop on the use of the IHSN Microdata Management Toolkit. This workshop was conducted in the context of the joint OECD/PARIS21 – World Bank Accelerated Data Program (ADP, www.ihsn.org/adp). This workshop which took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 12th to 16th December 2011....

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: 2010-06-07
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....

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