TIRANA, May 4/ATA/ The fourth UN World Data Forum 2023 was held in Hangzhou, China.
This forum was organized by the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics, with the support of the Statistics Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), under the guidance of the UN Statistical Commission and the High-Level Group on Partnership, Coordination and Capacity Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (HLG-PCCB), where Albania has been a member and co-chair of this group for 3 years through the general director of INSTAT.
The UN World Data Forum aims to foster data innovation, nurture partnerships, mobilize high-level political and financial support for data, and build a path of better data for sustainable development.
INSTAT has been part of the working group for the preparation of the final document of the World Data Forum, which was presented at the end of the forum as the Hangzhou Declaration.
Albania was represented on the panel of the closing high-level plenary session, with the head of INSTAT, Elsa Dhuli as a member of the High Program Committee of the UN World Data Forum, on April 27.
As a member and co-chair of the High-Level Group on Partnership, Coordination and Capacity Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (HLG-PCCB), Dhuli led the next meeting, the 30th meeting of this group.
The forum concluded with a declaration – the Hangzhou Declaration “Accelerating progress in implementation of the Cape Town Global Action Plan (CTGAP) on Sustainable Development Data”.
The next forum will be organized in Colombia in 2024./p.s./
