Zimbabwe Nationwide Statistics Company (ZimStat) with the help of UN Ladies and different companions not too long ago hosted a Knowledge Person-Producer Symposium. A Symposium, which is performed as soon as each 5 years, supplies a significant platform for discussing the most recent statistical developments and developments. Attended by customers and producers of statistics, analysis and coaching establishments, and improvement companions, the symposium goals to modernize the Nationwide Statistical System (NSS) utilizing know-how and various knowledge sources.
ZimStat makes use of this platform to extract worthwhile insights and inputs that form the Nationwide Growth Methods. The objective being to provide statistics that meet worldwide requirements whereas being related to the Zimbabwean context. The symposium additionally performs a vital function within the design of the Nationwide Technique for the Growth of Statistics (NSDS), which is a five-year plan which supplies a imaginative and prescient for the place the Nationwide Statistical System NSS ought to be in 5 to 10 years and units milestones for getting there.
Addressing the Symposium Zim Stat’s appearing Director Normal, Mr. Aluwisio Mukavhi, emphasised the significance of modernizing the Nationwide Statistical System (NSS). He acknowledged,”Modernization of the Nationwide Statistical System (NSS) by way of the usage of know-how and various knowledge sources is vital to nationwide improvement. We’ve a transparent mandate to gather, compile, consider, analyse and disseminate statistical info. On this regard, Zim Statendeavors to provide statistics that meet worldwide requirements, whereas being related to the Zimbabwean context”.
In her solidarity remarks Ms. Fatou Lo, UN Ladies Nation Consultant stated, “Knowledge and statistics are indispensable instruments for devising evidence-based insurance policies and programmes on gender equality and girls’s empowerment. Knowledge is significant for assessing affect and promotes accountability of our work. Nonetheless, with solely 5 years left till 2030, but nonetheless now we have lower than half of the gender knowledge we have to monitor SDG 5 globally. If no important change or deliberate actions are made to speed up gender knowledge financing and motion, we estimate that it’s going to probably take us 22 years to shut SDG gender knowledge gaps”.
The current symposium is a serious step ahead for knowledge manufacturing and use in Zimbabwe, with many knowledge customers and producers collaborating for the development of the nationwide statistics. The symposium was in a position to carry collectively over 100 knowledge producers and customers from throughout sectors, Authorities, Reserve Financial institution of Zimbabwe, Civil Society Organizations, Educational Establishments, Media&UN businesses, to share experiences and greatest practices in knowledge manufacturing and evaluation, promote open dialogue between customers and producers of statistics, focus on the challenges and alternatives in knowledge utilization, and suggest methods for environment friendly supply of statistical info. The symposium highlighted the significance of investing in gender knowledge and the function it performs in accelerating social and financial progress and sustainable improvement for all.
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