Expert group meeting on strengthening the demographic evidence base for the post-2015 development agenda
New York
Overview
The 49th session of the Commission on Population and Development (CPD) will be devoted to the theme "Strengthening the demographic evidence base for the post-2015 development agenda". The United Nations Population Division has convened an expert group meeting in October 2015 to inform the UN Secretary-General report to be presented at this CPD session in April 2016. The Strengthening the Demographic Evidence Base for the Post-2015 Development Agenda expert group meeting will bring together specialists to review how the most common sources of demographic data, such as census, surveys, civil registration and vital statistics systems and administrative records, meet the needs of the United Nations post-2015 development agenda. Experts will also be invited to reflect on new data sources that are becoming increasingly available for more rapid and more localized monitoring and how these new sources can complement more traditional data sources. The meeting will identify points of intervention for strengthening the demographic evidence base throughout the data life cycle that would contribute to more relevant, effective, efficient and sustainable action-oriented development planning and monitoring, and ultimately to achieving the post-2015 development agenda. Core questions to be discussed during the meeting include:
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Documents
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Background paper
Organization of work
Monday, 5 October 2015 |
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08:45 – 09:00 |
Registration conference |
09:00 – 10:45 |
Session 1. Opening of the meeting |
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11:00 – 12:45 | Session 2. Lessons learned from the 2010 round of censuses and planning for the 2020 round to meet the post-2015 agenda |
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14:00 – 15:45 |
Session 3. Existing survey programmes and the need for new survey modules or new thematic surveys designed to “count the uncounted” in support of more effective policy interventions |
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16:00 – 18:00 |
Session 4. Demographic evidence from civil registration systems, health information systems and other administrative data sources, including insights provided by health and demographic surveillance sites |
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Tuesday, 6 October 2015 |
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09:00 – 10:45 |
Session 5. Complementing traditional data sources with alternative acquisition, analytic and visualization approaches to ensure better utilization of data for sustainable development |
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11:00 – 12:45 |
Session 6. Data disaggregation and utilization challenges: Prospects for the integration of multiple data sources to produce estimates for different geographical scales and time periods |
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14:00 – 15:45 |
Session 7. Role of empirical observations and model-based estimates with uncertainty for global and country-level monitoring |
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16:00 – 17:00 | Session 8. Summary and conclusions |
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