Capacity building workshop on Sustainable Development Goal 8 indicators and labour statistics of work, employment and labour underutilization in EAC states

Dar es Salaam (ILO News) Article 41 of the Protocol for the Establishment of the EAC Common Market provides for cooperation in statistics and that Partner States shall cooperate to ensure the availability of relevant, timely and reliable statistical data for describing, monitoring, evaluating and sound decision making for the common market.

To attain these intentions, partner states need to develop and adopt harmonized statistical methods, concepts, determination and classifications for organizing statistical work. They also need to observe international accepted best practices in the cooperation in statistics.

The ILO in collaboration with the EAC is therefore organizing a capacity building workshop on Sustainable Development Goal 8 indicators and labour statistics of work, employment and labour underutilization in EAC states in Arusha, Tanzania from 20 to 23 June 2017.

The workshop which is aimed at strengthening the technical capacity of the key staff involved in the Manpower/labour force survey design and implementation, will attract about 40 representatives from the Ministries of Labour, National Bureaux of Statistics, Workers’ and employers’ Organisations of the partner countries - Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda,

The forum will also review the international standards of key labour market indicators with special focus on indicators, operational definitions and concepts refined by the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) held in 2013, underlying causes of their modification and expected impacts, among others.

The 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) held in Geneva in October, 2013 reviewed the current used employment concepts, definitions and measurement of indicators and came up with a proposal of operational guiding concepts, definitions and indicators that are expected to remedy limitations identified in current standards. A need arises therefore of equipping national teams engaged in labour statistics with the new developments to ensure that the adopted resolutions are domesticated and implemented in national labour statistics frameworks.

For further information please contact: Mrs Rukia Lukanza, [email protected], Mr Stephen Niyonzima, [email protected], Dr Coffi Agossou, [email protected] or. Magnus Minja [email protected]