Management Seminar on Global Assessments, Yalta, 23-25 September 2009

Draft Agenda

List of participants

Background information

Forum on Strategic Planning

Modern System of Official Statistics

Communication and Recommendation of the Commission

Purpose and Features of a Global Assessment

The address for the UNECE site for Fundamental Principles, containing the Principles in three languages, the documentation, referred to above in two languages, the Principles Governing International Statistical Activities and some seminar materials in English, is http://www.unece.org/stats/archive/docs.fp.e.htm

The UNECE-UNESCAP Global Assessment on Kazakhstan (2007-2008) as well as the UNECE-EFTA-Eurostat Global Assessment on Armenia (2009) can be found on the UNECE web site presenting the Statistical Division's Technical cooperation: http://www.unece.org/stats/archive/act.07.e.htm

Wednesday, 23 September 2009, starting at 09h00 - Day 1

Chair: Pieter Everaers, Director, Eurostat

1. Opening Addresses
2. Global Assessment – a Tool in building an efficient and sustainable statistical system
2.1 Presentation – Title	Mr. Heinrich Bruengger
2.2 Presentation – Title	Ms. Lidia Bratanova
2.3 Presentation – Title	Mr. Pieter Everaers
3. Overview of Comprehensive Global Assessments
3.1 Eurostat and global assessments: context, approaches, tools	Ms. Alina Milasiute
3.2 Presentation – Title	Mr. Petteri Baer
4. COUNTRY PRESENTATIONS
4.1 Global Assessment of the Statistical System of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)	Ms. Blagica Novkovska
4.2 Global Assessment of the Statistical System of the Republic of Armenia	Mr. Stepan Mnatsakanyan
4.3 Global Assessment of the Statistical System of Kazakhstan	Mr. Omarov Zhaslan
4.4 Global Assessment of the Statistical System of Moldova	Mr. Vladimir Golovatiuc
4.5 Global Assessment of the Statistical System of Belarus	Ms. Irina Kostevich
4.6 Global Assessment of the Statistical System of Azerbaijan	Mr. Rauf Salimov
5. ASSESSORS' PRESENTATIONS
5.1 Global assessments/peer reviews – some issues	Mr. Jan Magnar Byfuglien
5.2 Questions encountered in performing Global Assessments	Mr. Petteri Baer
5.3 Global assessments/peer reviews – some issues	Mr. Heinrich Bruengger

Thursday, 24 September 2009, starting at 09h00 - Day 2

Chair: Gabriel Gamez, Statistical Adviser, Head of EFTA Statistical Office

6. INSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF NATIONAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM	Mr. Heinrich Bruengger Mr. Hallgrímur Snorrason
7. International Cooperation
7.1 Institutional cooperation between National Statistical Institutes	Mr. Jan Magnar Byfuglien
7.2 International cooperation in statistics - Eurostat perspective	Mr. Pieter Everaers
8. PLANNING, PROGRAMMING, AND PRIORITY SETTING UNDER BUDGETARY CONSTRAINTS; HUMAN RESOURCES POLICY	Mr. Hallgrímur Snorrason
9. Assessment of STATISTICAL DOMAINS
9.1 Social and demographic statistics – some issues	Mr. Jan Magnar Byfuglien
9.2 Economic and business statistics – some issues	Ms. Lidia Bratanova

Friday, 25 September 2009, starting at 09h00 - Day 3

Chair: Petteri Baer, Regional Adviser, UNECE

10. DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING, DATA QUALITY	Mr. Heinrich Bruengger
11. DISSEMINATION POLICIES, BUILDING Relations with users
11.1 Dissemination and communication policies in modern statistical offices	Mr. Pieter Everaers
11.2 Presentation – Title	Mr. Jan Magnar Byfuglien
11.3 Why is it important to assess the state of user relations in a Global Assessment?	Mr. Petteri Baer
11.4 Objects to be assessed in relation to user relations in a Global Assessment	Mr. Petteri Baer
12. Global assessments: Current Developments and Future Planning
12.1 Organisation presentation – Title	Mr. Petteri Baer
12.2 Global assessments and peer reviews in an era of partnership: an old tool in a new environment	Mr. Pieter Everaers
12.3 EFTA contribution to the forthcoming global assessment round in Eastern European and Central Asian countries

Conclusions from the seminar