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Addressing coordination and data sharing challenges for better environment, climate change and disaster indicators

Social development
Statistics
22 November 2022|Event
ECLAC - Caribbean

The Statistics Division and the Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in collaboration with United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission, have been working together over the past year and a half at the country level to strengthen institutional and statistical capacities of selected Caribbean countries to better produce, disseminate and use environment, climate change and disaster indicators. Work at the country level has helped in identifying coordination and data sharing as the most critical areas where exchange of knowledge and experiences and peer learning at the regional level bring the most value for countries. Therefore, as part of the Development Account 12th Tranche (DA12) project on Caribbean SIDS relevant climate change and disasters indicators for evidence-based policies, a regional workshop is being organized to facilitate exchange of ideas and peer learning among project beneficiary and non-beneficiary countries.

This workshop will bring stakeholders from National Statistical Offices, Ministries of Environment, and Emergency and Disaster Management authorities of members and associate members of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) to share experiences and knowledge, and promote peer learning on strengthening the environment, climate change, and disaster statistical areas in their organisations and promoting the use of data in decision making.

The objectives of the workshop are to:

  • Enable a safe space for participants to discuss specific challenges on coordination and data sharing processes of environment, climate change and disaster statistics and share knowledge, experiences, and success stories in addressing these challenges
  • Show advances of ECLAC´s regional resilience database and receive feedback from the participants
  • Identify the most pressing national needs in the areas of environment, climate change and disaster data that could be addressed by ECLAC in the next stages of the DA12 project

DAY 1 – 22 November, 2022

 

8:30 - 9:00: - Registration

9:00 - 10:00: - Opening Ceremony

10:00 – 10:20 - Introductory Presentation: The DA12th project, Georgina Alcantar, ECLAC

10:20 – 11:10 - Session 1: Disaster Statistics: Advances in the region

11:10 – 11:30 - Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00 - Presentation: Statistical Conference of the Americas: Working group on disaster statistics

12:00 – 12:30 - Session 2: How to strengthen sustained production, collection, dissemination and use of environment, climate change and disaster statistics?    

12:30 – 13:30 - Lunch break

13:30 – 14:00 - Group work: participants discuss and define critical steps to develop the environment, climate change and/or disaster are in their organisations

14:00 – 14:30 - Presentations: Preparing an environment/climate change/disaster statistics compendium which impacts policymaking

14:30 – 15:00 - Group work: participants discuss and define critical steps to develop and use an environment/climate change statistical compendium for policymaking

15:00 – 15:30 - Reporting back from group work

15:30 – 16:20 - Panel discussion: How do better environment, climate change and disaster indicators at the national level contribute to building resilience at the regional level?

16:20 – 16:30 - Conclusion of the day, Abdullahi Abdulkadri, ECLAC

 

DAY 2 – 23 November, 2022

8:30 - 9:00 - Registration

9:00 – 9:20 - Welcome, overview of Day 1 and introduction to the working group sessions

9:20 – 11:20 - Session 3: Dynamic working groups - better coordination and collaboration for more quality environment, climate change and disaster statistics and indicators

11:20 – 12:00 - Reporting back from working groups

12:00 – 12:30 - Slido session: takeaways from session 2

12:30 – 13:30 - Lunch break

13:30 – 14:20 - Panel discussion: How do you support and promote better coordination of key agencies for the environment, climate change and disaster data areas in Caribbean countries?

14:20 – 15:25 - Session 4: Where and how to leverage non-traditional data sources to produce and better use environment, climate change and disaster indicators?

15:25 – 15:30 - Conclusion of the day, Abdullahi Abdulkadri, ECLAC

 

DAY 3 – 24 November, 2022

8:30 - 9:00 - Registration

9:00 – 9:15 - Welcome, overview of Day 2 and introduction to the “World Café” tables

9:15 – 11:40 - Session 5: World Café tables: better data sharing processes for effective policy making

11:40 – 12:00 - Feedback from each table facilitator

12:00 – 12:30 - Slido session: lessons learned to improve data sharing

12:30 – 13:30 - Lunch break

13:30 – 14:45 - Session 6: Identifying countries' capacity development priorities and the way forward

14:45 – 15:00 - Evaluation of the Regional workshop

15:00 – 15:20 - Closing remarks

15:20 – 15:50 - Certificates delivery

15:50 – 16:00 - Conclusion of the day, Georgina Alcantar, ECLAC

 

22 Nov 2022

  • Session 1: Disaster Statistics: Advances in the region

    10:20 to 12:00

  • Session 2: How to strengthen sustained production, collection, dissemination and use of environment, climate change and disaster statistics?

    12:00 to 12:30

23 Nov 2022

  • Session 3: Dynamic working groups - better coordination and collaboration for more quality environment, climate change and disaster statistics and indicators

    09:20 to 11:20

  • Session 4: Where and how to leverage non-traditional data sources to produce and better use environment, climate change and disaster indicators?

    14:20 to 15:25
    • Livingston Pemberton, National Emergency Management Agency, Ministry of National Security & Samantha Huggins-Wattley, Statistics Department
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