Announcement:

Indicative Programme of the Conference

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Participation Form

Participants are requested to complete and return this Registration form on or before September 17, 2007

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Announcement: ADB Supports ICMDGS
Posted 17 August 2007

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will support the travel of participants from any of its developing member countries who can present a paper on good practice for reducing data gaps in the MDG indicators; or in the utilization of administrative reporting system.

Please send your request for funding together with the abstract of the proposed paper to: Dr. Dalisay S. Maligalig Senior Statistician Development Indicators and Policy Research Asian Development Bank Telephone No: 632 632 5786 Fax No: 632 636 2361 E-mail address: dmaligalig@adb.org Deadline for submission will be 7 September 2007.

The Philippines through the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) in collaboration with different international organizations is hosting the  2007 International Conference on the Millennium Development Goals Statistics (ICMDGS) to be held at EDSA Shangri-la Hotel, One Garden Way, Mandaluyong City, Philippines on 1 – 3  October 2007.

Rationale

In more than half a decade that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been deployed it has progressively made significant inroads in the formulation and implementation of national development plans and poverty reduction programs of many poor and developing countries.  The MDGs, being eponymous to many key social welfare and inequality issues, have easily captured a wide interest among policy makers and development planners because while the MDGs seem focused on a set of specific goals and targets, they actually cover a wide range of issues that have been made easier to understand, manage, and measure than many of earlier much bigger global development programs.

With the convergence of major international and national efforts and resources into promoting and implementing the MDGs, these goals are probably among the most oft-cited and widely-discussed development framework in the world today.

The MDGs have also set off a massive, global statistical advocacy and capacity building program/drive that have stirred many a statistical system and have, more than ever, mobilized the statistical processes and resources of international organizations.