The Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC is a subsidiary body of the Commission established pursuant to Economic and Social Council resolution 2000/7, in which the Conference was entrusted with the following mandates, among others: to promote the development and improvement of national statistics and work to ensure that they are comparable internationally, bearing in mind the recommendations of the United Nations Statistical Commission, the specialized agencies and other relevant organizations; to promote international, regional and bilateral cooperation among national offices and international and regional agencies; and to draw up a biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities which, subject to the availability of resources, will meet the needs of the countries of the region.

The Executive Committee, at its fourteenth meeting held in Santiago from 26 to 28 May 2015, decided on the place and date of the eighth meeting of the Conference, as well as some of the topics to be discussed. The provisional agenda of the meeting includes the review of key issues of statistical development in Latin America and the Caribbean, including the adoption of the new strategic plan of the Statistical Conference of the Americas for the period 2015-2025, the analysis of the statistical challenges posed by the post-2015 development agenda and the region’s participation in the working groups of the Statistical Commission, as well as the review of progress in the implementation of the biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities of the Conference. A seminar will be held on substantive issue in core areas for the development of official statistics and public policies:  the data revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In addition, in order to mark the completion of the International Statistical Fellowship Program of Statistics Canada, a seminar on strengthening statistical management practices will be held on 16 November in the same venue as the Conference.
At the eighth meeting of the Conference, the member States are to consider and approve the new strategic plan of the Conference for the period 2015-2025, and define the areas of work of the biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities of the Conference for the biennium 2016-2017. Finally, the member States will elect a new Executive Committee of the Conference for the period 2016-2017.

Useful information to facilitate the participation at the meeting is available on EVENT  INFORMATION section of this web site.