Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC organised a Training Course on ‘Government Finance, Fiscal and Public Sector Statistics’ with the attendance of 17 participants from the National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of 9 Arabic speaking OIC countries on 10-12 January 2023 through an online video conferencing platform.

Mr. Faed Rayyan, Director of Government Finance Statistics (GFS) Department and Compiler of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position at the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), conducted the course and covered the following topics:

• Overview of GFS definitions, accounting rules, instruments and counterparties
• Coverage and sectorization
• Consolidation
• Debt data compilation issues
• Presentation and dissemination of GFS
• Challenges and recommendations

The SESRIC StatCaB Programme was initiated in early 2007. It is the flagship capacity development programme of SESRIC. Within the framework of StatCaB Programme, the Centre collects information from the NSOs of OIC member countries through the biennial StatCaB Questionnaire, assesses their statistical training needs and capacities, matches these needs and capacities, and organizes statistical capacity development activities between the beneficiary and provider countries.

All documents and presentations of the Training Course are available at this link.

For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php