Keynote Address
Paul Cheung, UNSD

Plenary Session -1
Chair: Romulo A. Virola

• MDG Statistics and Global Monitoring
  by Francesca Perucci

• The Philippine Millennium Development Goals:
  Where Are We Now?
  by Erlinda M. Capones

• Overview of the Conference
  by Estrella V. Domingo

Session 1 - Mid-term progress report on the attainment of MDGs
Session chair: Mr. Bishnu Pant, ADB

• Current State of the MDGS in Asia and the Pacific
  by Shiladitya Chatterjee

• MDG progress report of Maldives (for the Pacific)
  by Fuwad Thowfeek

• Inter-Agency and Expert Group (IAEG) on MDGs Indicator in Zambia
  by Modesto Banda

• Progress Report on the attainment of the MDG´sMéxico
  by Jorge Antonio Millan

• Progress towards Attainment of MDGs: Bangladesh Experience
  by Sheikh Abdul Ahad

• Achieving the Cambodia’s Millennium Development Goals 2005 update
  by Chintha Long

Session 2 - Generation and compilation of MDG indicators
Session chair: Tomas P. Africa, Philippines

• Use of administrative-based data
  by Carmelita N. Ericta

• Possibility of synchronizing multiple data for monitoring one goal
  by Amara Satharasinghe

• Data evaluation - assessment of data availability, etc.
  by Dorjee Tashi

• Statistical problems for monitoring of MDG in Nepal
  by Rabi Prasa Kayastha

Session 3 - Techniques in addressing data gaps
Session chair: Francesca Perucci, UNSD

• Country good practices on addressing data gaps for MDGs: Improving the reporting mechanisms from the national to the international statistical system
  by Jorge Antonio Millan

• Use of statistics generated/released by international organizations
  by Francesca Coullare

• Methods to address data gaps for the monitoring of the target on full, decent and productive employment
  by Lawrence Jeffrey Johnson

• Tracking the Implementation of the MDGs with time distance measure
  by Pavle Sicherl

Session 4 - Addressing data gaps
Session chair: Shiladitya Chatterjee, ADB

• Status of MDG compilation in Azerbaijan
  by Azar Ahmadov

• Addressing data gaps for MDG indicators in Fiji
  by Epeli Waqavonovono

• India's approach to MDG data gaps
  by S. Chakrabarti

• Good practices for reducing data gaps
  by Wenceslaus Tulem

• Report of the National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia
  by Safyan Anahit

Session 5 - Strengthening statistical capacity to improve MDG data
Session chair: Augusto Rodriguez, UNICEF

• ADB statistical capacity building strategy and program
  by Bishnu Pant

• Training Manual on the Assessment and Dissemination of MDG Indicators
  by Lisa Grace Bersales

• Statistical capacity programs on the MDGs of the Federal Statistics Office of Germany
  by Waltraud Moore

• Statistical capacity programs on the MDGs of the Czech Statistical Office
  by Jan Fischer

Session 6 - Dissemination of MDG indicators
Session chair: Carmelita Ericta, Philippines NSO

• Use of DevInfo in the Philippines
  by Augusto Rodriguez

• Online Dissemination of Philippine MDGs
  by Candido Astrologo, Jr.

Session 7 - Monitoring and coordination
Session chair: Jan Fischer, Czech Republic

• Mechanisms Towards a Well-CoordinatedStatistical System in Support of MDG Indicators:
  The Philippine Setting
  by Lina V. Castro

• Coordination on the Generation and Dissemination of MDG Indicators: Viet Nam Experience
  by Nguyen Phong

• Localization of the Millennium Development Goalsin the Science City of Muñoz,Nueva Ecija, Philippines
  by Nestor Alvarez

Workshop on the Way Forward
Session chair: John Frederick P. De Guia, ASEAN Secretariat

Session 8 - Direction Setting: The Way Forward
Session chair: Romulo A. Virola

• Recommendations of Group 1 - International Organizations Group

• Recommendations of Country Group 2 - Asia and the Pacific 1

• Recommendations of Group 3 (Asia-Pacific II)

• Recommendations of Group 4 (Africa-others)

Consolidated Workshop Recommendations

International Conference on the Millennium Development Goals Statistics (ICMDGS)
1-3 October 2007, Manila, Philippines