Regional Workshop on the Operational Guidelines of the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020 (WCA 2020)
1- 4 April 2019, Amman, Jordan
The Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics (AITRS) and the FAO organized the above regional workshop for member countries in the Near East and North African region and some countries from the Eastern Africa sub region. The meeting was the first in the series of regional workshops planned to present the Operational Guidelines of the WCA 2020 to the FAO member countries in different parts of the world.
Purpose
The workshop focused on the main stages involved in the preparation and implementation of the census of agriculture described in the Operational Guidelines of the WCA 2020. The Workshop is part of FAO statistics division capacity development activities to strengthen the knowledge and skills of national staff in member countries in charge of planning and conducting agricultural censuses.
Participants
The participants of the meeting were professional statisticians and census leaders who are likely to play a role in the planning and execution of next agricultural census in their respective countries. A total of 21 countries were invited to participate in the meeting, including Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, and Yemen.
Technical presentations
TS1 - Overview of the Operational Guidelines of the WCA 2020
TS2 - Roundtable on countries census plans, approaches and methodologies
TS3.1 - Relevance and advocacy of the census of agriculture
TS3.2 - Legal and institutional framework
TS3.3 - Planning, budgeting and tabulation plan
TS3.4 - Communication and publicity
TS3.5- Quality assurance framework
TS4 - Methodological modalities
TS5.1 - Preparation of frames and mapping
TS5.2 - Use of sampling in the census
TS6.1 - Questionnaires and instruction manuals
TS7.1 - Organization of field work
TS7.2 - Data collection methods and use of technology
TS8.1 -Data processing and archiving
TS8.2 - Post-enumeration survey
TS8.3 - Data analysis, reporting and dissemination
TS8.4 - Reconciliation of current statistics with census results