PARIS21, in collaboration with UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP), conducted a regional training course on the National Strategies for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) on December 9-12, 2014 at UNSIAP in Chiba, Japan. This training course was designed to introduce high level country representatives in the new NSDS Guidelines. In collaboration with the Accelerated Data Program (ADP) a new addition known as the “Data Module” was introduced into the NSDS process. Pilot work is being undertaken to develop a “Data Module” that would assist countries developing their NSDS to compute and plan their survey program.

The Accelerated Data Program conducted a Microdata Management Toolkit Workshop for the staff of Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS - Statistics Indonesia) and staff of the World Bank Office, Jakarta (WBOJ) from 23-27 July 2012 in Puncak, West Java. The training is the first step in a series of activities under the World Bank’s StatCap program where improved microdata dissemination is seen as one of the major initiatives for reforms in the development of statistics in Indonesia. The training produced good quality documentation of surveys, 10 studies in English and 9 in Bahasa.

The “Regional training on documenting and archiving of Population and Housing Censuses” was held in Manila, Philippines, on 18-22 June 2012. Organized jointly with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP), the workshop was geared towards promoting good documentation and archiving of population and housing censuses - to increase its use and promote its accessibility. Participants came from different parts of Asia including Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Viet Nam.

The second "Regional Training on the Documentation and Archiving of Agricultural Censuses and Surveys” was held in Manila, Philippines, 21-25 February 2011. In line with the objective of the first workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the workshop was organized to train participants from 14 countries on the use the IHSN Microdata Management Toolkit for the documentation of agricultural censuses and surveys, and to initiate the documentation of their latest agricultural census.