The Technical Secretariat of the Joint Arab Ministerial Council for Water and Agriculture (the Technical Secretariat AMWC and AOAD) organized in cooperation with FAO and ESCWA the second high-level joint committee for water and agriculture on October 19, 2020. The meeting held during the 2020 Cairo Water Week followed up on the progress made in implementing the recommendations of the first meeting of the joint committee, and to discuss the themes and contents of the draft action plan 2021-2025 to activate the Cairo Declaration 2019.

Global Programme in Support of the 2020 Round of Population and Housing Censuses and Civil Registration and Vital StatisticsUsing the technical report on “Measuring SDG Indicators through Population and Housing Censuses and Civil Registration Data” as a reference document, the workshop aims to discuss how to produce SDG indicators based on their metadata information. The workshop will also provide a platform to further elaborate on utilizing Population and Housing Censuses and Civil Registration Data for disaggregating SDG indicators and discuss the use of geospatial information and tools for generating relevant SDG indicators from such data. Ultimately the workshop will help to achieve a common and improved understanding of definitions and methods of computation of SDG indicators.

Participants of the online consultative meeting discussed and reviewed the National Policies and Technical Guidelines Templates for e-Accessibility, prepared by ESCWA within the framework of the Arab Digital Inclusion Platform (ADIP) project launched in 2020.