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.

An IHSN Microdata Management Training and Survey Metadata Production Workshop were organized in Bujumbura on February 3-7, 2014 at the request of l’Institut de Statistiques et d’Etudes Economiques du Burundi (ISTEEBU). A total of nine participants from different departments of ISTEEBU participated in the workshop and documented eight surveys during the five-day period. In addition, the participants were informed on the use and importance of dissemination using the on-line archiving tool NADA. A specific training on the NADA installation, customization and maintenance was also provided to ISTEEBU's IT staff.