The First Meeting of the
Working Party on the Application of New Technology
to Population Data
Bangkok, 24-26 September
1997
STAT/WPA.1/2
29 August 1997
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ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE
PACIFIC
Working Party on Application of New Technology
to Population Data
First Meeting
24-26 September 1997
Bangkok
Terms of reference of
the Working Party
Note by the secretariat
The Working Party is invited
to discuss and determine its own terms of reference.
Based on the arrangements envisaged in the project
document, a proposed draft of the terms of reference
and functioning of the Working Party is given
below.
A. Terms of reference
The Working Party on Application
of New Technology to Population Data shall perform
the following functions:
Play a pivotal role
in consolidating the experiences of the countries
in the application of new technology to population
data and in sharing them within the region.
Identify priorities
and provide guidance to the activities of
the project on the application of new technology
in population data collection, analysis, presentation
and dissemination.
Advise the secretariat
on the strategy, approach and modalities to
be adopted in undertaking project activities,
producing its outputs, and meeting the immediate
objectives.
Review and monitor
progress of the project activities and submit
its observations, suggestions and recommendations
to the secretariat and the Committee on Statistics.
Formulate procedures
and make arrangements for the active participation
of its members and their parent organizations
in the activities of the project and its outputs,
including the preparation of guidelines and
provision of technical advise to the pilot
countries.
Play the focal role,
and guide the secretariat as necessary, in
securing close cooperation and inputs to the
project activities from various national and
international organizations.
Determine the
timing and provisional agenda for its own
future meetings.
B. Functioning of
the Working Party
The Working Party will consist
of eight experts from countries of the ESCAP region,
selected in consultation with the respective national
statistical offices. It will be preferable for
the same experts to be present in all the meetings
of the Working Party. However, in the absence
of the initially designated expert, his/her organization
may send an alternate. Additional experts from
the same country represented on the Working Party
may attend at the expense of their own organizations.
Observers from relevant international and national
organizations will also be invited to participate
in the meeting of the working party. The tenure
of the Working Party will be 1997-1999 during
which it will organize at least four meetings.
For each designated expert (one per country) the
cost of attendance in the Working Party meetings
will be borne by ESCAP, as per rules and regulations
of the United Nations.
