CRVS Innovations Conference

Past Events

27/02/2018 – 28/02/2018, Ottawa, Canada

The International Conference on Innovations in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) systems is the fruit of a collaboration between the Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The aim of this conference is to convene leading stakeholders from around the world to collectively identify and debate how best to harness the power of CRVS systems to meet global commitments to the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. The main objectives of this conference are to: (1) Generate ‘current state’ knowledge about CRVS by exploring the current status and use of innovation in CRVS in developed and developing economies, providing a platform to experts for presenting their innovative and constructive ideas at international level; (2) Prioritize ‘future state’ research and innovation needs for development into a Global 3-5 year work plan including necessary partnerships and capacity building approaches…more

Global Data Set on Education Quality

Past Events

22/02/2018, Washington, DC, USA

Organized by the Education Division of the Inter-American Development Bank, this brown bag lunch presentation discusses the Global Data Set on Education Quality. The database includes 163 countries and regions over the period 1965–2015. The globally comparable achievement outcomes were constructed by linking standardized, psychometrically-robust international and regional achievement tests. Learning outcomes in developing countries are often clustered at the bottom of the global scale. Although variation in performance is high in developing countries, the top performers still often perform worse than the bottom performers in developed countries. Gender gaps are relatively small. The distributions reveal meaningfully different trends than mean scores, with less than 50 percent of students reaching the global minimum threshold of proficiency in developing countries relative to 86 percent in developed countries. The paper also finds a positive and significant association between educational achievement and economic growth…more

Toward data-driven education systems: What information do education leaders want and need?

Past Events

21/02/2018, Washington, DC, USA

Center for Universal Education at Brookings and AidData will co-host a presentation and panel discussion on their forthcoming report Toward data-driven education systems: How leaders use information to measure results and manage change. The event will share findings from two unique global surveys that assess the use of data and evidence by education leaders in developing countries. Among those surveyed were senior and mid-level government officials, in-country staff of development partners, and domestic civil society leaders. Panelists include Shaida Badiee, managing director of Open Data Watch…more

Data Analysis for Development Planners

Past Events

12/02/2018 – 23/02/2018, Dakar, Senegal

Hosted by the UN Economic Commission for Africa, the overarching objective of the Data Analysis for Development Planners course is to contribute to the development of a critical mass of highly skilled middle and senior policy officials and decision makers who will be suitably or better equipped to collect and/or analyze data for the purpose of national, sub-regional, and regional development planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. More specifically, the course will provide training on different methods and types of data collection and analyses. The course content covers a range of both theoretical and practical issues in data collection and analysis. Softwares which can be deployed to undertake complex analyses will be demonstrated and their uses taught. The course will respond to the needs articulated by African governments for a corpus of skilled mid-level and senior development planners who are adequately equipped to collect and analyze data…more