Among the participants present at the meeting were Ms. Grissell Arias from ONE, the National Office of Statistics in the Dominican Republic; Mr. Christian Cando from INEC, National Institute of Statistics in Ecuador; Ms. Pauline Leonard, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL); Ms. Patricia Casanova from INE, National Institute of Statistics, Chile; Mr. Peter Abad from INEI, National Institute of Statistics, Peru; Ms Gretel Elena Vidal Medina, Centro de Gestion de la Informaciòn Económica, Social y Medio Ambiental, Cuba; Ms. Jerasela Lopez Aguilar Margarita from the National Institute of Statistics (INEGI), Mexico; Ms. Gladys Matute from the National Institute of Statistics, Nicaragua; and Ms. Elisabeth Barrios from the Dirección General de Estadística, Encuestas y Censos (DGEEC) in Paraguay.

“To be here today is very important for us as Peru has suffered many disasters along its coasts as a result of El Niño phenomenon and there is a need to refine our statistics in order to improve our prevention plans. It is important at national level but also at regional level,“ said Peter Abad, from the Institute of National Statistics (INIE) in Peru.

Participants highlighted the urgent need for more harmonization between systems and methodologies in the region.

“The work for countries to report on many frameworks to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is more and more complex and complicated. We need more coherence nationally and regionally to simplify the way we collect data to be able to report accurately and in a timely manner,” said Elisabeth Barrios from the National Institute of Statistics in Paraguay.

Date:

19 Jun 2018

Sources:

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas (UNISDR AM)

Themes:

Risk Identification & Assessment, Disaster Risk Management

Regions:

Americas