In this field national teem cooperation and training is promoted for the production, diffusion and use of indicators according to international metadata and regional benchmarks.

The activities involved in this area of work include the preparation of regional workshops and seminars, technical cooperation missions and horizontal cooperation studies between countries.

Action lines :

a. Interregional MDG seminars. Regional strategy for MDG monitoring

b. Regional MDG seminars. Adjustment of MDG indicators to the regional context, new complementary MDG indicators proposal.

c. Capacity building workshops. Discussion around MDG indicators, recommendations for solving data gaps and divergences in MDGs indicators values, complementary indicators by thematic area.

d. Technical cooperation missions demand by the countries. Field support for designing and consolidating statistical information systems for MDG monitoring.

e. Horizontal cooperation missions among countries. Exchange of national experiences among countries with common statistical challenges.