First session of the statistical commission for Africa (stat com-Africa) held at ECA calls for a new focus on statistics as part of the enabling environment for development

The first meeting of the new Statistical Commission for Africa (StatCom-Africa) opened at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. StatCom-Africa was the culmination of a long process of revamping the statistical function at ECA. StatCom Africa was established as an ECA subsidiary body, which would oversee the statistical function at the Commission. The agenda of this first meeting of StatCom –Africa aims to bring attention a number of important issues in the framework of the renewed statistical function at the ECA, the partnerships that have been established among major regional institutions, and the new focus on statistics as part of the enabling environment for national and international development.