Transcript Presentation at the United Nations Regional Seminar on Census Data Dissemination and Spatial Analysis, Bangkok, 5-8 October 2010 Christophe Lefranc UNFPA, Asia and the Pacific.

Presentation at the United Nations
Regional Seminar on Census Data
Dissemination and Spatial Analysis,
Bangkok, 5-8 October 2010
Christophe Lefranc
UNFPA, Asia and the Pacific Regional
Office, Bangkok
What UNFPA does
• Work of UNFPA guided by 2 international
frameworks:
– Programme of Action adopted at the International
Conference of Population and Development (ICPD,
Cairo, 1994)
– Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)
• 3 core areas of focus for UNFPA:
– Sexual and reproductive health
– Gender equality and women’s empowerment
– Population and development strategies
Population and development
• Aim to integrate population issues into sustainable
human development processes and to examine the
impact of development processes on population
variables
• Areas of focus include migration, urbanization, ageing,
climate change
• National governments need adequate information on
population dynamics and trends to design and manage
sound policies
• UNFPA assists countries in developing capacity in data
collection and analysis, for use in formulation,
planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation
of policies and programmes
Policy on data
• “Valid, reliable, culturally relevant and
internationally comparable data form the
basis for policy and programme development,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation.”
(Programme of action of the ICPD)
• UNFPA identified as the lead agency in
assisting countries in the production,
maintenance and use of good population
statistics
Specific actions on data
• Strengthening national capacities to
undertake population censuses and sample
surveys
• Promoting interaction among data users and
data producers
• Assisting in building comprehensive and
reliable databases
• Supporting training in statistics, demography,
population and development studies
Recent actions on censuses in Asia
• Long term technical assistance for census
operations provided by UNFPA to the
government in Bangladesh (2011 census), DPR
Korea (2008 census), Pakistan (2011 census),
Timor-Leste (2010 census)
• Short term training support in Nepal (2011
census)
• Promotion of the reflection for the
organization of a census in Afghanistan
Specific actions on data dissemination
• Promotion of Redatam software (developed by
ECLAC) to disseminate census data in Cambodia
(2008 and 1998 censuses): census micro data
available online in a Redatam database which
guarantees confidentiality and flexibility in
addressing users’needs
• Funding of participants to regional training
workshops at SIAP (upcoming workshop on
population census data analysis using Redatam in
November)