The President of the NSI, Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD, participated in the 33rd session of the High-Level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which was held on the 25th of February in the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York. Assoc. Prof. Atanasov is in the USA as one of the five representatives of the Group for the region of North America and Europe and as a representative of Bulgaria in the 55th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC), the highest body in the International Statistical System, where global statistical standards are discussed and approved.
During the session of the Group, the work program for the current year was discussed, as well as the report on its activities during 2023, which is to be presented to the UNSC. Among the topics of discussion were the preparations for the next UN World Data Forum, which will be held from 11 to 14 November 2024 in Medellin, Colombia, the need to revise the Cape Town Global Action Plan, adopted during the first UN World Data Forum in January 2017, as well as global initiatives related to the financing of data and statistics, etc.
The High-Level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for statistics was established in 2015 and its main goal is to ensure strategic guidance on the process of statistical monitoring and reporting on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The 55th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission begins tomorrow, February 27th and will continue until the 1st of March, discussing topic related to the basic principles of official statistics, national accounts, social and demographic statistics, population and housing censuses, big data and others.
