The UN-ESCWA Statistical Committee at its eleventh session, Amman, 4-5 February 2015 agreed on forming of a technical advisory group on demographic and social statistics in the Arab region, and ask ESCWA to discuss its terms of reference and amend it in line with the views of its members.
 
The Statistics Division at the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) is organizing, in collaboration with the Tunisian National Institute of Statistics, the first meeting of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Demographic and Social Statistics for the Arab countries on 17-18 October 2016, in Tunis.
 
The main goal of establishing of (TAG) is to provide recommendations on strategies, as well as substantive and methodological guidelines for achieving goals in the area of demographic and social statistics. In its first period, the TAG will focus on ensuring that all countries in the region have the capacity to deliver a core set of demographic and social indicators needed for the SDGs among other planning and monitoring purposes.