Pacific Health: International Day of the Midwife
WHO, SPC, UNFPA, and UNICEF in the Pacific calls for urgent action to save mothers and newborns
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On World Health Day, United Nations agencies and partners unite under the theme “Healthy beginnings, hopeful future”.
Pacific leaders meet on regional statistics development and decisions in Vanuatu
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Statistics leaders from 14 Pacific countries and territories—as well as repre
First Pacific Ministers of Youth Meeting in more than a decade recognises the need to pass the baton to our youth - the leaders of tomorrow
Rugby, household surveys and COVID-19
The Fiji Rugby Sevens Team continued to excel since the onset of COVID-19 - they won the 2020 Olympics, the World Rugby Sevens Series and are currently ranked 3rd in the world. At the same time, the Pacific National Statistics Offices have…
Pacific islands making the move to electronic data collection
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This story was originally published on Data for change website.
From the Pacific to the global stage: QGIS* manual now available in five languages
What was initially a Pacific training resource is now a global tool, thanks to the collaboration between the Pacific Community (SPC) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
SPC Elected as Chair of the Global Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Group for 2020-21
The Statistics for Development Division is proud to announce that SPC has been elected unanimously as the Chair of the Global Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Group at a side event of the 2020 UN statistical Commission meeting in New York. SPC was…
SPC Inside: Learn more about governance in the context of official statistics in the Pacific
The Pacific Statistics Methods Board (PSMB) and Pacific Statistics Standing Committee (PSSC) both had meetings recently in Noumea. This short video explains how these statistics governance bodies and the Pacific Community are contributing to…
Brisbane Accord Group (BAG) Meeting
The Brisbane Accord Group (BAG) is a consortium of development partners formed in 2010, that supports Pacific Island countries in improving civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems. BAG’s work is guided by the Pacific vital statistics…