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Ninth Session of the Committee of Directors General of National Statistics Offices Plenary session 8: Statutory issues Discussions on the forthcoming forty-seventh session of the United Nations Statistical Commission – countries participation and contribution of the region on proposed agenda items The 47th Session is scheduled from 8 to 11 March 2016 in New York. The provisional annotated agenda for the 2016 session will be very soon available on the website of UNSD. As done on previous sessions of the statistical commission it is important for African countries to speak with one voice and therefore to harmonize their contributions to the deliberations on items for discussion and decision. It is therefore proposed that countries be assigned items on the agenda and take the lead in preparing Africa’s common positions on them and make the intervention during the discussion. Countries are requested to indicate their willingness to lead the preparation and presentation of the assigned topics on behalf of the continent. Comments are also welcome from everybody on the issues to be considered in coming up with the common positions on the agenda items; please send such inputs to either ECA or directly to the assigned countries. 1 2. Agenda items for discussion and decision during the 47th session of UNSC Items for discussion and decision: a. b. Reference of Document: Data and indicators for the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Interagency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (E/CN.3/2016/2)) Transformative agenda for official statistics Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the High Level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for post 2015 monitoring (E/CN.3/2016/3) Report of the Secretary-General on the transformative agenda for official statistics (E/CN.3/2016/4) Countries to prepare and lead Africa interventions: Botswana Tanzania Senegal Cabo Verde Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe High Level Group on the Modernization of Official Statistics (E/CN.3/2016/5) Rwanda c. Big data for official statistics; Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the global working group on Big Data for official statistics (E/CN.3/2016/6) Cameroon d. National accounts Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the InterSecretariat Working Group on National Accounts(E/CN.3/2016/7) South Africa 2 Items for discussion and decision: Reference of Document: Countries to prepare and lead Africa interventions: e. Environmental-economic accounting Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (E/CN.3/2016/8) Mozambique f. International Comparison Programme Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the final report of the Friends of the Chair on the evaluation of the 2011 round of the International Comparison Programme (E/CN.3/2016/9) Uganda Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the World Bank on the International Comparison Programme interim activities (E/CN.3/2016/10) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the Report of the Expert Group on International Statistical Classifications (E/CN.3/2016/11) Lesotho Seychelles g. International statistical classifications h. Industrial statistics Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization on industrial statistics (E/CN.3/2016/12) Nigeria i. Information and communication technology statistics Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Partnership on Measuring Information and Communications Technology for Development (E/CN.3/2016/13) MADAGASCAR j. Refugee statistics Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of Statistics Norway, TURKSTAT, Eurostat and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the progress of the work on statistics on refugees and internally displaced persons (E/CN.3/2016/14) Libya 3 Items for discussion and decision: Reference of Document: Countries to prepare and lead Africa interventions: k. Climate change statistics Report of the Secretary-General on climate change statistics (E/CN.3/2016/15) Morocco l. Governance statistics Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Praia Group (E/CN.3/2016/16) Mali m. Regional statistical development in Western Asia Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) on main achievements of statistical development in the region (E/CN.3/2016/17) Côte d’Ivoire Countries are invited to indicate the agenda item they want to lead in preparing the interventions of Africa 4