The Third Meeting of Heads of ECO National Statistical Offices (MNNSO) was held on 24-25 May, 2011 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The meeting was hosted by the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in collaboration with the Economic Cooperation Organization.
The meeting discussed on the need for new guidelines to supplement the ECO Plan of Action and Framework of Cooperation on Statistics, which could be critical for the advancement of progress towards sustainable regional development based on informed statistics. It was reiterated that this could be supplemented with ideas, suggestions and proposals from ECO NSOs.
Launching of ECO Statistical Network (ECOSTAT) by the Statistical Centre of Iran was appreciated by the meeting and ECO NSOs were requested to support ECOSTAT by providing their regular and updated data and statistics as well as their feedback for development of the Network. The meeting also discussed the functions and responsibilities of the Committee on Regional Harmonized Statistical Methodology and supported its objectives to improve harmonization processes with regard to international comparability and applicability across the region.
Based on the report of the Secretariat regarding statistical training needs and potentialities of the ECO NSOs, Member States expressed their views and proposals for implementation of the statistical capacity building programme in the region. The programme will further enhance joint cooperation with international organizations which is in the progress by continuous work of the Secretariat. In this regard, implementation of ECO-FAO Technical Cooperation Project (TCP) based on the recent proposal of the FAO was welcomed by the Member States.
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