The State of Qatar has affirmed its contribution to supporting the achievement of the goals of the sustainable development agenda 2030 at the regional and international levels, as well as providing support to poor countries to combat poverty and destitution.
This came during the participation of a delegation from the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics in a special session organised in cooperation with the High Commissioner for Planning in Morocco on the Doha Declaration issued during the Arab Forum on building statistical capacity hosted by the State of Qatar last October. The recommendations of the Doha Declaration were translated into a work program that deals with the modernisation of the entire statistical system with a view to supporting the national development strategy 2017-2022 and the sustainable development agenda 2030 adopted by the State of Qatar.
The special session was held in the context of the 61st session of the International Conference of Statistics held recently in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh and witnessed the presence of nearly two thousand participants and experts in this field from about 120 countries. During the session participants mentioned the importance of providing sectorial, national and international indicators to monitor the development of the State in national and international development.
During the Conference, the delegation held an extended meeting with the High Commissioner for Planning in Morocco, Ahmed Al Halimi, in which he discussed the development of a practical partnership in planning and statistics between the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics and the High Commissioner for Planning in Morocco.
Participants in this session, representing various statistical agencies, statisticians, universities and research centers, as well as regional and international institutions, the private sector and civil society, discussed several papers on most aspects of the statistical process.
During the six days of the Conference, participants also discussed sustainable development agenda 2030 and its indicators, and how to plan for such indicators before 2030, to monitor the progress that countries will make towards achieving the goals and targets adopted by world leaders in September 2015.
