FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Workshop on Strategic Planning for Agricultural and Rural Statistics

17/03/2015-19/03/2015 Bangkok, Thailand

 

Objective

The objective of the Workshop is to share best practices and experiences on development of integrated NSS; which may ultimately support the development of SPARS and the sustainability of agricultural and rural statistics in GS implementing countries and newly selected countries.

Concept Note

Agenda

Opening Remarks

Presentations

Session 1

Progress in Expected Outputs: Training Component

Progress in implementing the Global Action Plan

ADB Activities in Support of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics

Commonly encountered issues in the agricultural statistical systems: Experience of NASS in Asia and Africa

Review of the progress of Technical Assistance Activities in implementing countries

Session 2

Strategic Planning for Improvement of Agricultural and Rural Statistics: Issues, Approaches and Best practices

NSDS in Asia-Pacific: Lessons learnt and opportunities for integration

Tanzania Experience in Preperation of an Agricultural Statistics Strategy (SPARS)

ADB Experience in Helping Countries Prepare Country Action Plans (CAP)

SPARS: Launch Assessment and Planning

Session 3

Scope of Coordination of Agricultural and Rural Statistics within the National Statistical System

Australia: Institutional Arrangements for Effective Coordination of Agricultural and Rural Statistics

Bangladesh: Implementation of Global Strategy for Improvement in Agricultural and Rural Statistics

Bhutan

Canada: Statistics Canada - Institutional Arrangements for Effective Coordination of Agricultural and Rural Statistics

China: Effective Coordination for Agricultural and Rural Statistics in China

India: Institutional Arrangements for Effective Coordination of Agricultural and Rural Statistics

Japan: Agricultural Statistical System in Japan

Lao PDR

Myanmar: Statistical System in Myanmar

Philippines: Agriculture and Rural Statistics in the Philippine Statistical System

Thailand: Role of the National Statistical Office (NSO) in the National Agriculture Statistics System

Session 4

Recent developments in the research component

Experience in Understaking Methodological Research in Agricultural and Rural Statistics in Asia and the Pacific

Global Strategy - Guidelines for Integration of Fisheries and Aquaculture

Session 5

Strategic vision for an Integrated Statistical System

List of Participants