In the series of regional capacity building workshops on Data Ethics, Governance, and Quality in a Changing Data Ecosystem since November 2024, many NSOs from developing countries pinpointed the increasing importance in upholding these principles to ensure official statistics remain credible, relevant, and responsive to complex and often compounded societal challenges. They requested the easy access and self-paced learning of the two FPOS guidelines with a view to challenges of navigating legal, ethical, quality, and governance issues in using novel data sources and engaging varied stakeholders in national data ecosystem. The NSOs from developing countries also raised long-standing concerns of high turnover of professional staff, which makes the online access as enabled by Jupyter Book and e-learning courses of the FPOS guidelines effective tools for capacity building of statisticians.

During the recent capacity building regional workshop for African countries in Kenya, which was held on 2-4 September 2025, the participants recommended that beneficiary countries should take a leading role in revising and improving their statistical laws to ensure alignment with FPOS. During the meeting, Burundi mentioned that the modernization of its national statistical systems commenced with revising the two important statistical laws and regulations in line with FPOS; Kenya also highlighted the importance of FPOS in revising the statistical law reflecting a commitment to modernizing the national statistical system. As part of way forward, UNSD is requested to step up its capacity development support for African countries on unified methodologies, standardization, frameworks, and guidelines including FPOS to support transformation and modernization of national statistical systems.

The UN Statistical Commission, in its 56th session, advised the regular review of the FPOS guidelines, with the aim of maintaining their relevance in a rapidly changing data landscape.