The key objective is to implement standard methods to produce, analyze and communicate better data for enhanced SDGs monitoring and reporting, and share national and regional experiences and facilitate inter-regional cooperation. 
 
The meeting will help in achieving a common and improved understanding among the participants about the various technical issues and challenges of producing comparable and harmonized disability data. The meeting will also benefit from the user-producer dialogue to develop the Arab Disability Framework Indicator and related Metadata Handbook.  It will also provide valuable inputs for the continued development of guidelines and training material addressing disability statistics for measuring and monitoring development indicators including the SDGs. 

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Breakaway policy makers report

Session 1: Global and Regional Guidelines to improve disability statistics

• The Washington Group on Disability Statistics
• ESCWA Statistics Division: Regional guidelines and Arab Washington Group  Extended Short Set on Functioning (AWG-SS+)
• ESCWA Statistics Division: Regional guidelines and Arab Washington Group  Extended Short Set on Functioning (AWG-SS+) (Arabic)
• ILO: Labour market indicators for persons with disabilities for policy making and monitoring

Session 2:  Implementing the Washington Group Questions on Functioning in the Arab region

• ESCWA Statistics Division: checklist for implementation (Arabic)
• Yemen (Arabic)
• Iraq (Arabic)
• Morocco (Arabic)
• Egypt (Arabic)
• Jordan (Arabic)

Session 3:  Effective use of statistics in policy making and monitoring

• ESCWA Statistics Division: Analysis of evidence for policy formulation (Arabic)
• Morocco
• Jordan
• Malta

Session 4:  Disability indicators in SDGs and other development indicators

• ESCWA Statistics Division (Arabic)

Session 5:  Methods to produce disaggregated cross-tabulated analysis

• ESCWA Statistics Division: Metadata and Syntax Handbook
• Yemen
• Palestine
• Iraq

Session 6: Field work training needs

• ESCWA Statistics Division (Arabic)
• Regional Assessment Training Survey
• Egypt (Arabic)
• Jordan (Arabic)

Session 7: Terms of reference of CASA/ESCWA Group on Disability Statistics: A proposal

• Palestine (Arabic)

Session 8:  Arab SDG disability indicator framework

• ESCWA Statistics Division: Disability Indicator Framework