| PTSC (Project Technical Steering
Committee) meetings 02/03
The first meeting of this
committee was held on 29th November 2002, in Noumea, New Caledonia. The key
function of the Project Technical Steering Committee is to ensure project design
and development addresses the project's principal objective to increase the use
of sub-national population and socio-economic data and the technical capacity of
National Statistical Offices in the four pilot countries (Vanuatu, Kiribati,
Samoa and FSM).
Committee membership included
representation from DFID, USP, SOPAC, UNFPA, Heads of NSOs from Vanuatu and
Kiribati, and the former Demographer. With this meeting representing the first
steering committee, SPC invited the incoming Demographer to attend as an
observer. Likewise, Samoa's Deputy Government Statistician who happened to be on
a professional attachment with our program, was also invited to attend this
meeting as an observer.
The second meeting (and last
meeting of the current project) of the committee was held on 11th June 2003, in
Noumea, New Caledonia. As per the project agreement with our principal donor
agency (DFID) also stipulates that the PTSC meant to comprise one delegate from
the Statistics or Planning department in each project country, the Directors of
Planning (Samoa and Vanuatu) and Head of Statistics Offices (for all four
project countries) were invited to this meeting. This ensures a dialogue that
addresses the needs of both producers and users of socio-economic data and
information.
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