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Meeting Title: National Workshop on Climate Change and Disaster-related Statistics

Location: Cameroon

Date: 07th – 9th November 2023

SDG Indicators: 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.b.1, 11.b.2, 13.1.1, 13.1.2, 13.1.3, 13.2.1, 13.2.2, 13.3.1, 13.a.1, 13.b.1

Partners: United Nations Statistics Division, UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Development Program, National Institute of Statistics and Directorate of Civil Protection of Cameroon

Type: Climate change and disaster

Brief description

The workshop aimed to increase technical capacity for climate change and disaster-related statistics in Cameroon by bringing together and provide hands-on training on priority topics to various stakeholders. The three-day workshop included seven sessions on international requirements and national experiences in relevant statistics and policy, data governance, as well as two thematic sessions on climate change and disaster-related statistics, with a focus on the Global Set on Climate Change Statistics and Indicators and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. The workshop highlighted that Cameroon has strong commitments and opportunities to develop climate change and disaster statistics as well as long history of producing environment statistics.

Documents

Agenda Concept Note Workshop Report
# UN Presentations
1 Environment-related SDGs and Multilateral Environmental Agreements
2 UNFCCC and Paris Agreement
3 Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics
4 Data Sources in Environment and Climate Change Statistics
5 Quality Control and Validation of Environment and Climate Change Statistics
6 Compilation and Dissemination of Environment Statistics
7 Implementation Tools for FDES
8 GIS and Earth Observation
9 System of Environmental-Economic Accounting
10 Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators
11 Linkages of the Global Set on Climate Change Statistics and Indicators with the other Global Initiatives and Frameworks
12 Implementation Guidelines for the Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators
13 International Experience in the Field of Disaster-related Statistics
14 DRSF Basic Range of Disaster-related Statistics
15 Training Workshop on Monitoring the Sendai framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Loss Data Collection
16 Data Ecosystem (infrastructures, governance, use)
17 Legal Agreement to Ensure the Sharing of Data