Request for an assessment and development of a national plan for environment statistics
UNSD organized a mission to Equatorial Guinea as part of the implementation programme for the Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics (FDES 2013) and as a follow-up to the Workshop on Environment Statistics in support of the implementation of the FDES 2013 for the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) region held in Libreville, Gabon in November 2017 (https://unstats.un.org/unsd/envstats/meetings/2017-Gabon/index.cshtml). The mission comprised two days of bilateral consultations and a national workshop.
The bilateral consultations on the first day with the Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Guinea Ecuatorial (INEGE) led to a better understanding of the main environmental issues, priorities and data gaps, as well as an overview of the work undertaken in Equatorial Guinea in environment statistics. Bilateral discussions on the last day focused on the National Action Plan for the Development of Environment Statistics and its linkage to the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS), the preparation of the workshop report and the establishment of a National Committee on Environment Statistics.
The national workshop brought the stakeholders together where, inter alia, the FDES components were presented by UNSD. The Environment Statistics Self-Assessment Tool (ESSAT) was used extensively in the workshop to help the participants identify the most important statistics according to national relevance and priorities for data collection. Discussions were held in working groups on the availability of the statistics and the methodology used to produce them. Finally, the participants discussed and adopted recommendations that included, inter alia, the creation of a National Committee on Environment Statistics and the National Action Plan for the Development of Environment Statistics.