REGIONAL EXPERIENCES OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL

SOUTH AFRICA

By Richard Dackam Ngatchou

UNFPA CST Dakar

UNFPA CST Role

Desk review to identify common problems within the region

Publication on Strategies for Reducing Census Costs – UNFPA/TSS Task Force Group, 1996

Organizing Regional Workshops to solve common problems within the region

Promoting South/South Cooperation

Regional Workshop 1997 Geographic Information System

(GIS)

1998 Data processing IMPS

1999 Managing Census Process Analysis/Tabulation Plan Utilization of Census Output (Data, Result)

2000 Post Enumeration Survey (PES)

South/South Cooperation Senegal & Cape Verde

Cameroon & Chad

Cameroon & Equatorial Guinea

CAR & Chad

Using Regional Institute of Population Training

Institut de Formation et de Recherche Demographiques (IFORD) Demographic analysis training - focus

on census data On the job training Thematic analysis Final analysis workshop (assessment of

analysis draft report)

The Way Forward Operational Research on Reducing Census

Costs Sharing experiences on new thematic

areas Children Ageing Women Indirect measurement of poverty

(Region/Household) In-depth analysis Using census results