The United Nations Regional Thematic Conference on “Managing a Statistical Organization in Times of Changes” for SE-EECCA countries, held by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) on 5-7 December 2023, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, was attended by Mr. Rauf Salimov, Deputy Chairman of the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Mr. Gasim Aliyev, Head of the Department of Coordination of Statistical Works and Strategic Planning.

The conference was organized in order to view the experience and problems existing in the region to monitor the indicators specified in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the relevant regional and national development plans and to familiarize participants with innovations in the field of institutional, organizational and technical processes related to the production of official statistics and identify the priority ranking. During the three-session conference the matter of supporting the transformation of statistical production processes in the context of the digital and technological revolution, strengthening the institutional and organizational structures of national statistical systems, ensuring the quality of statistical information, improving the compliance of statistical data through statistical analysis and analytical schemes, mobilizing adequate resources and infrastructure, etc. issues were discussed.