BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a59978aa5978 DTSTART:20220327T070000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20220327T150000Z LOCATION:Cairo\, Egypt SUMMARY:Training workshop on the statistical measurement of illicit financi al flows (IFFs) in Egypt CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The United Nations integrated SDGs Financing project for Egypt (INFF) aims to develop capacities and put in place simple systems to conti nuously measure\, map and compare financing flows. An important element of this project is identifying financing opportunities\, through the better availability and quality of data\, in particular data on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs). IFFs threaten countries’ ability to achieve the 2030 Agen da and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by diverting resources fro m development.\n\nCustodian agencies of SDG indicator 16.4.1\, United Nati ons Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC)\, released Conceptual Framework for the Stati stical Measurement of Illicit Financial Flows in October 2020. In May 2021 \, UNCTAD finalised a draft of Methodological Guidelines to Measure Tax an d Commercial IFFs for pilot testing\, aimed at statistical and other natio nal authorities with a mandate to collect and access relevant information. UNODC are finalising the Guidelines to measure IFFs from extractive activ ities and illegal drugs markets.\n\nExpert Group on IFFs in Egypt held two on-line meeting\, one on 8 December 2021 and one on 21 February 2022 to r efine data availability review and propose measurement plan for IFF statis tics in Egypt\, including preliminary mapping of national agencies and ide ntifying training requirements for its members. This national training wor kshop on the statistical measurement of IFFs in Egypt is organised with tw o main specific objectives:\n\n\nTo review\, refine and consolidate the ma pping of national agencies to measure IFFs in Egypt by hosting the in-pers on corroboration of Expert Group members\; and\nTo provide training on met hodologies to measure IFFs\, specifically by providing conceptual basis to the participants (guidelines\, discussions) and technical training on:\n\ nTax and commercial IFF methodologies of trade misinvoicing: method#1 Part ner Country Method+ (PCM+) and method#2 Price Filter Method+ (PFM+)\nCrime -related IFF methodologies on drugs trafficking and smuggling of migrants\ nCross-cutting concepts of anti-money laundering\n\n\nMoreover\, the works hop will serve as a platform to review and discuss further steps\, includi ng the roadmap and action plan to sustained national compilation of IFF st atistics in Egypt.\n\n\nTargeted participants of the training workshop are members of national Expert Group for statistical measurement of IFFs in E gypt\, allowing for additional technical personnel of relevant national st akeholders to partake to ensure better knowledge distribution and sharing to ensure continuation in capacity enhancing activities within national st akeholders.\n\nThe training workshop and the IFF expert group meeting will be conducted in Arabic and English with simultaneous interpretation avail able. The workshop will be conducted as an in-person event\, with limited hybrid option to cater for external experts to contribute to the training of national Expert Group members.\n<\;p>\;The United Nations integrate d SDGs Financing project for Egypt (INFF) aims to develop capacities and p ut in place simple systems to continuously measure\, map and compare finan cing flows. An important element of this project is identifying financing opportunities\, through the better availability and quality of data\, in p articular data on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs). IFFs threaten countries ’ ability to achieve the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goa ls (SDGs) by diverting resources from development.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p&g t\;Custodian agencies of SDG indicator 16.4.1\, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC)\, released Conceptual Framework for the Statistical Measurem ent of Illicit Financial Flows in October 2020. In May 2021\, UNCTAD final ised a draft of Methodological Guidelines to Measure Tax and Commercial IF Fs for pilot testing\, aimed at statistical and other national authorities with a mandate to collect and access relevant information. UNODC are fina lising the Guidelines to measure IFFs from extractive activities and illeg al drugs markets.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;Expert Group on IFFs in Egypt held two on-line meeting\, one on 8 December 2021 and one on 21 February 2 022 to refine data availability review and propose measurement plan for IF F statistics in Egypt\, including preliminary mapping of national agencies and identifying training requirements for its members. This national trai ning workshop on the statistical measurement of IFFs in Egypt is organised with two main specific objectives:<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;ol>\;\n<\;li&g t\;To review\, refine and consolidate the mapping of national agencies to measure IFFs in Egypt by hosting the in-person corroboration of Expert Gro up members\; and<\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;To provide training on methodol ogies to measure IFFs\, specifically by providing conceptual basis to the participants (guidelines\, discussions) and technical training on:\n<\;u l>\;\n<\;li>\;Tax and commercial IFF methodologies of trade misinvoi cing: method#1 Partner Country Method+ (PCM+) and method#2 Price Filter Me thod+ (PFM+)<\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Crime-related IFF methodologies on drugs trafficking and smuggling of migrants<\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Cros s-cutting concepts of anti-money laundering<\;/li>\;\n<\;/ul>\;\n& lt\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Moreover\, the workshop will serve as a platform to review and discuss further steps\, including the roadmap and action pl an to sustained national compilation of IFF statistics in Egypt.<\;/li&g t\;\n<\;/ol>\;\n\n<\;p>\;Targeted participants of the training wor kshop are members of national Expert Group for statistical measurement of IFFs in Egypt\, allowing for additional technical personnel of relevant na tional stakeholders to partake to ensure better knowledge distribution and sharing to ensure continuation in capacity enhancing activities within na tional stakeholders.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;The training workshop and t he IFF expert group meeting will be conducted in Arabic and English with s imultaneous interpretation available. The workshop will be conducted as an in-person event\, with limited hybrid option to cater for external expert s to contribute to the training of national Expert Group members.<\;/p&g t\;\n\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/training-w orkshop-statistical-measurement-illicit-financial-flows-iffs-egypt DTSTAMP:20260717T024634Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a59978aa59b8 DTSTART:20220328T070000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20220328T150000Z LOCATION:Cairo\, Egypt SUMMARY:Training workshop on the statistical measurement of illicit financi al flows (IFFs) in Egypt CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The United Nations integrated SDGs Financing project for Egypt (INFF) aims to develop capacities and put in place simple systems to conti nuously measure\, map and compare financing flows. An important element of this project is identifying financing opportunities\, through the better availability and quality of data\, in particular data on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs). IFFs threaten countries’ ability to achieve the 2030 Agen da and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by diverting resources fro m development.\n\nCustodian agencies of SDG indicator 16.4.1\, United Nati ons Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC)\, released Conceptual Framework for the Stati stical Measurement of Illicit Financial Flows in October 2020. In May 2021 \, UNCTAD finalised a draft of Methodological Guidelines to Measure Tax an d Commercial IFFs for pilot testing\, aimed at statistical and other natio nal authorities with a mandate to collect and access relevant information. UNODC are finalising the Guidelines to measure IFFs from extractive activ ities and illegal drugs markets.\n\nExpert Group on IFFs in Egypt held two on-line meeting\, one on 8 December 2021 and one on 21 February 2022 to r efine data availability review and propose measurement plan for IFF statis tics in Egypt\, including preliminary mapping of national agencies and ide ntifying training requirements for its members. This national training wor kshop on the statistical measurement of IFFs in Egypt is organised with tw o main specific objectives:\n\n\nTo review\, refine and consolidate the ma pping of national agencies to measure IFFs in Egypt by hosting the in-pers on corroboration of Expert Group members\; and\nTo provide training on met hodologies to measure IFFs\, specifically by providing conceptual basis to the participants (guidelines\, discussions) and technical training on:\n\ nTax and commercial IFF methodologies of trade misinvoicing: method#1 Part ner Country Method+ (PCM+) and method#2 Price Filter Method+ (PFM+)\nCrime -related IFF methodologies on drugs trafficking and smuggling of migrants\ nCross-cutting concepts of anti-money laundering\n\n\nMoreover\, the works hop will serve as a platform to review and discuss further steps\, includi ng the roadmap and action plan to sustained national compilation of IFF st atistics in Egypt.\n\n\nTargeted participants of the training workshop are members of national Expert Group for statistical measurement of IFFs in E gypt\, allowing for additional technical personnel of relevant national st akeholders to partake to ensure better knowledge distribution and sharing to ensure continuation in capacity enhancing activities within national st akeholders.\n\nThe training workshop and the IFF expert group meeting will be conducted in Arabic and English with simultaneous interpretation avail able. The workshop will be conducted as an in-person event\, with limited hybrid option to cater for external experts to contribute to the training of national Expert Group members.\n<\;p>\;The United Nations integrate d SDGs Financing project for Egypt (INFF) aims to develop capacities and p ut in place simple systems to continuously measure\, map and compare finan cing flows. An important element of this project is identifying financing opportunities\, through the better availability and quality of data\, in p articular data on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs). IFFs threaten countries ’ ability to achieve the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goa ls (SDGs) by diverting resources from development.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p&g t\;Custodian agencies of SDG indicator 16.4.1\, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC)\, released Conceptual Framework for the Statistical Measurem ent of Illicit Financial Flows in October 2020. In May 2021\, UNCTAD final ised a draft of Methodological Guidelines to Measure Tax and Commercial IF Fs for pilot testing\, aimed at statistical and other national authorities with a mandate to collect and access relevant information. UNODC are fina lising the Guidelines to measure IFFs from extractive activities and illeg al drugs markets.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;Expert Group on IFFs in Egypt held two on-line meeting\, one on 8 December 2021 and one on 21 February 2 022 to refine data availability review and propose measurement plan for IF F statistics in Egypt\, including preliminary mapping of national agencies and identifying training requirements for its members. This national trai ning workshop on the statistical measurement of IFFs in Egypt is organised with two main specific objectives:<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;ol>\;\n<\;li&g t\;To review\, refine and consolidate the mapping of national agencies to measure IFFs in Egypt by hosting the in-person corroboration of Expert Gro up members\; and<\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;To provide training on methodol ogies to measure IFFs\, specifically by providing conceptual basis to the participants (guidelines\, discussions) and technical training on:\n<\;u l>\;\n<\;li>\;Tax and commercial IFF methodologies of trade misinvoi cing: method#1 Partner Country Method+ (PCM+) and method#2 Price Filter Me thod+ (PFM+)<\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Crime-related IFF methodologies on drugs trafficking and smuggling of migrants<\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Cros s-cutting concepts of anti-money laundering<\;/li>\;\n<\;/ul>\;\n& lt\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Moreover\, the workshop will serve as a platform to review and discuss further steps\, including the roadmap and action pl an to sustained national compilation of IFF statistics in Egypt.<\;/li&g t\;\n<\;/ol>\;\n\n<\;p>\;Targeted participants of the training wor kshop are members of national Expert Group for statistical measurement of IFFs in Egypt\, allowing for additional technical personnel of relevant na tional stakeholders to partake to ensure better knowledge distribution and sharing to ensure continuation in capacity enhancing activities within na tional stakeholders.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;The training workshop and t he IFF expert group meeting will be conducted in Arabic and English with s imultaneous interpretation available. The workshop will be conducted as an in-person event\, with limited hybrid option to cater for external expert s to contribute to the training of national Expert Group members.<\;/p&g t\;\n\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/training-w orkshop-statistical-measurement-illicit-financial-flows-iffs-egypt DTSTAMP:20260717T024634Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a59978aa59bd DTSTART:20220329T070000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20220329T150000Z LOCATION:Cairo\, Egypt SUMMARY:Training workshop on the statistical measurement of illicit financi al flows (IFFs) in Egypt CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The United Nations integrated SDGs Financing project for Egypt (INFF) aims to develop capacities and put in place simple systems to conti nuously measure\, map and compare financing flows. An important element of this project is identifying financing opportunities\, through the better availability and quality of data\, in particular data on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs). IFFs threaten countries’ ability to achieve the 2030 Agen da and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by diverting resources fro m development.\n\nCustodian agencies of SDG indicator 16.4.1\, United Nati ons Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC)\, released Conceptual Framework for the Stati stical Measurement of Illicit Financial Flows in October 2020. In May 2021 \, UNCTAD finalised a draft of Methodological Guidelines to Measure Tax an d Commercial IFFs for pilot testing\, aimed at statistical and other natio nal authorities with a mandate to collect and access relevant information. UNODC are finalising the Guidelines to measure IFFs from extractive activ ities and illegal drugs markets.\n\nExpert Group on IFFs in Egypt held two on-line meeting\, one on 8 December 2021 and one on 21 February 2022 to r efine data availability review and propose measurement plan for IFF statis tics in Egypt\, including preliminary mapping of national agencies and ide ntifying training requirements for its members. This national training wor kshop on the statistical measurement of IFFs in Egypt is organised with tw o main specific objectives:\n\n\nTo review\, refine and consolidate the ma pping of national agencies to measure IFFs in Egypt by hosting the in-pers on corroboration of Expert Group members\; and\nTo provide training on met hodologies to measure IFFs\, specifically by providing conceptual basis to the participants (guidelines\, discussions) and technical training on:\n\ nTax and commercial IFF methodologies of trade misinvoicing: method#1 Part ner Country Method+ (PCM+) and method#2 Price Filter Method+ (PFM+)\nCrime -related IFF methodologies on drugs trafficking and smuggling of migrants\ nCross-cutting concepts of anti-money laundering\n\n\nMoreover\, the works hop will serve as a platform to review and discuss further steps\, includi ng the roadmap and action plan to sustained national compilation of IFF st atistics in Egypt.\n\n\nTargeted participants of the training workshop are members of national Expert Group for statistical measurement of IFFs in E gypt\, allowing for additional technical personnel of relevant national st akeholders to partake to ensure better knowledge distribution and sharing to ensure continuation in capacity enhancing activities within national st akeholders.\n\nThe training workshop and the IFF expert group meeting will be conducted in Arabic and English with simultaneous interpretation avail able. The workshop will be conducted as an in-person event\, with limited hybrid option to cater for external experts to contribute to the training of national Expert Group members.\n<\;p>\;The United Nations integrate d SDGs Financing project for Egypt (INFF) aims to develop capacities and p ut in place simple systems to continuously measure\, map and compare finan cing flows. An important element of this project is identifying financing opportunities\, through the better availability and quality of data\, in p articular data on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs). IFFs threaten countries ’ ability to achieve the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goa ls (SDGs) by diverting resources from development.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p&g t\;Custodian agencies of SDG indicator 16.4.1\, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC)\, released Conceptual Framework for the Statistical Measurem ent of Illicit Financial Flows in October 2020. In May 2021\, UNCTAD final ised a draft of Methodological Guidelines to Measure Tax and Commercial IF Fs for pilot testing\, aimed at statistical and other national authorities with a mandate to collect and access relevant information. UNODC are fina lising the Guidelines to measure IFFs from extractive activities and illeg al drugs markets.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;Expert Group on IFFs in Egypt held two on-line meeting\, one on 8 December 2021 and one on 21 February 2 022 to refine data availability review and propose measurement plan for IF F statistics in Egypt\, including preliminary mapping of national agencies and identifying training requirements for its members. This national trai ning workshop on the statistical measurement of IFFs in Egypt is organised with two main specific objectives:<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;ol>\;\n<\;li&g t\;To review\, refine and consolidate the mapping of national agencies to measure IFFs in Egypt by hosting the in-person corroboration of Expert Gro up members\; and<\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;To provide training on methodol ogies to measure IFFs\, specifically by providing conceptual basis to the participants (guidelines\, discussions) and technical training on:\n<\;u l>\;\n<\;li>\;Tax and commercial IFF methodologies of trade misinvoi cing: method#1 Partner Country Method+ (PCM+) and method#2 Price Filter Me thod+ (PFM+)<\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Crime-related IFF methodologies on drugs trafficking and smuggling of migrants<\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Cros s-cutting concepts of anti-money laundering<\;/li>\;\n<\;/ul>\;\n& lt\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Moreover\, the workshop will serve as a platform to review and discuss further steps\, including the roadmap and action pl an to sustained national compilation of IFF statistics in Egypt.<\;/li&g t\;\n<\;/ol>\;\n\n<\;p>\;Targeted participants of the training wor kshop are members of national Expert Group for statistical measurement of IFFs in Egypt\, allowing for additional technical personnel of relevant na tional stakeholders to partake to ensure better knowledge distribution and sharing to ensure continuation in capacity enhancing activities within na tional stakeholders.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;The training workshop and t he IFF expert group meeting will be conducted in Arabic and English with s imultaneous interpretation available. The workshop will be conducted as an in-person event\, with limited hybrid option to cater for external expert s to contribute to the training of national Expert Group members.<\;/p&g t\;\n\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/training-w orkshop-statistical-measurement-illicit-financial-flows-iffs-egypt DTSTAMP:20260717T024634Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a59978aa59c2 DTSTART:20220330T070000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20220330T150000Z LOCATION:Cairo\, Egypt SUMMARY:Training workshop on the statistical measurement of illicit financi al flows (IFFs) in Egypt CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The United Nations integrated SDGs Financing project for Egypt (INFF) aims to develop capacities and put in place simple systems to conti nuously measure\, map and compare financing flows. An important element of this project is identifying financing opportunities\, through the better availability and quality of data\, in particular data on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs). IFFs threaten countries’ ability to achieve the 2030 Agen da and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by diverting resources fro m development.\n\nCustodian agencies of SDG indicator 16.4.1\, United Nati ons Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC)\, released Conceptual Framework for the Stati stical Measurement of Illicit Financial Flows in October 2020. In May 2021 \, UNCTAD finalised a draft of Methodological Guidelines to Measure Tax an d Commercial IFFs for pilot testing\, aimed at statistical and other natio nal authorities with a mandate to collect and access relevant information. UNODC are finalising the Guidelines to measure IFFs from extractive activ ities and illegal drugs markets.\n\nExpert Group on IFFs in Egypt held two on-line meeting\, one on 8 December 2021 and one on 21 February 2022 to r efine data availability review and propose measurement plan for IFF statis tics in Egypt\, including preliminary mapping of national agencies and ide ntifying training requirements for its members. This national training wor kshop on the statistical measurement of IFFs in Egypt is organised with tw o main specific objectives:\n\n\nTo review\, refine and consolidate the ma pping of national agencies to measure IFFs in Egypt by hosting the in-pers on corroboration of Expert Group members\; and\nTo provide training on met hodologies to measure IFFs\, specifically by providing conceptual basis to the participants (guidelines\, discussions) and technical training on:\n\ nTax and commercial IFF methodologies of trade misinvoicing: method#1 Part ner Country Method+ (PCM+) and method#2 Price Filter Method+ (PFM+)\nCrime -related IFF methodologies on drugs trafficking and smuggling of migrants\ nCross-cutting concepts of anti-money laundering\n\n\nMoreover\, the works hop will serve as a platform to review and discuss further steps\, includi ng the roadmap and action plan to sustained national compilation of IFF st atistics in Egypt.\n\n\nTargeted participants of the training workshop are members of national Expert Group for statistical measurement of IFFs in E gypt\, allowing for additional technical personnel of relevant national st akeholders to partake to ensure better knowledge distribution and sharing to ensure continuation in capacity enhancing activities within national st akeholders.\n\nThe training workshop and the IFF expert group meeting will be conducted in Arabic and English with simultaneous interpretation avail able. The workshop will be conducted as an in-person event\, with limited hybrid option to cater for external experts to contribute to the training of national Expert Group members.\n<\;p>\;The United Nations integrate d SDGs Financing project for Egypt (INFF) aims to develop capacities and p ut in place simple systems to continuously measure\, map and compare finan cing flows. An important element of this project is identifying financing opportunities\, through the better availability and quality of data\, in p articular data on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs). IFFs threaten countries ’ ability to achieve the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goa ls (SDGs) by diverting resources from development.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p&g t\;Custodian agencies of SDG indicator 16.4.1\, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC)\, released Conceptual Framework for the Statistical Measurem ent of Illicit Financial Flows in October 2020. In May 2021\, UNCTAD final ised a draft of Methodological Guidelines to Measure Tax and Commercial IF Fs for pilot testing\, aimed at statistical and other national authorities with a mandate to collect and access relevant information. UNODC are fina lising the Guidelines to measure IFFs from extractive activities and illeg al drugs markets.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;Expert Group on IFFs in Egypt held two on-line meeting\, one on 8 December 2021 and one on 21 February 2 022 to refine data availability review and propose measurement plan for IF F statistics in Egypt\, including preliminary mapping of national agencies and identifying training requirements for its members. This national trai ning workshop on the statistical measurement of IFFs in Egypt is organised with two main specific objectives:<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;ol>\;\n<\;li&g t\;To review\, refine and consolidate the mapping of national agencies to measure IFFs in Egypt by hosting the in-person corroboration of Expert Gro up members\; and<\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;To provide training on methodol ogies to measure IFFs\, specifically by providing conceptual basis to the participants (guidelines\, discussions) and technical training on:\n<\;u l>\;\n<\;li>\;Tax and commercial IFF methodologies of trade misinvoi cing: method#1 Partner Country Method+ (PCM+) and method#2 Price Filter Me thod+ (PFM+)<\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Crime-related IFF methodologies on drugs trafficking and smuggling of migrants<\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Cros s-cutting concepts of anti-money laundering<\;/li>\;\n<\;/ul>\;\n& lt\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Moreover\, the workshop will serve as a platform to review and discuss further steps\, including the roadmap and action pl an to sustained national compilation of IFF statistics in Egypt.<\;/li&g t\;\n<\;/ol>\;\n\n<\;p>\;Targeted participants of the training wor kshop are members of national Expert Group for statistical measurement of IFFs in Egypt\, allowing for additional technical personnel of relevant na tional stakeholders to partake to ensure better knowledge distribution and sharing to ensure continuation in capacity enhancing activities within na tional stakeholders.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;The training workshop and t he IFF expert group meeting will be conducted in Arabic and English with s imultaneous interpretation available. The workshop will be conducted as an in-person event\, with limited hybrid option to cater for external expert s to contribute to the training of national Expert Group members.<\;/p&g t\;\n\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/training-w orkshop-statistical-measurement-illicit-financial-flows-iffs-egypt DTSTAMP:20260717T024634Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a59978aa59c7 DTSTART:20220331T070000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20220331T150000Z LOCATION:Cairo\, Egypt SUMMARY:Training workshop on the statistical measurement of illicit financi al flows (IFFs) in Egypt CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The United Nations integrated SDGs Financing project for Egypt (INFF) aims to develop capacities and put in place simple systems to conti nuously measure\, map and compare financing flows. An important element of this project is identifying financing opportunities\, through the better availability and quality of data\, in particular data on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs). IFFs threaten countries’ ability to achieve the 2030 Agen da and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by diverting resources fro m development.\n\nCustodian agencies of SDG indicator 16.4.1\, United Nati ons Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC)\, released Conceptual Framework for the Stati stical Measurement of Illicit Financial Flows in October 2020. In May 2021 \, UNCTAD finalised a draft of Methodological Guidelines to Measure Tax an d Commercial IFFs for pilot testing\, aimed at statistical and other natio nal authorities with a mandate to collect and access relevant information. UNODC are finalising the Guidelines to measure IFFs from extractive activ ities and illegal drugs markets.\n\nExpert Group on IFFs in Egypt held two on-line meeting\, one on 8 December 2021 and one on 21 February 2022 to r efine data availability review and propose measurement plan for IFF statis tics in Egypt\, including preliminary mapping of national agencies and ide ntifying training requirements for its members. This national training wor kshop on the statistical measurement of IFFs in Egypt is organised with tw o main specific objectives:\n\n\nTo review\, refine and consolidate the ma pping of national agencies to measure IFFs in Egypt by hosting the in-pers on corroboration of Expert Group members\; and\nTo provide training on met hodologies to measure IFFs\, specifically by providing conceptual basis to the participants (guidelines\, discussions) and technical training on:\n\ nTax and commercial IFF methodologies of trade misinvoicing: method#1 Part ner Country Method+ (PCM+) and method#2 Price Filter Method+ (PFM+)\nCrime -related IFF methodologies on drugs trafficking and smuggling of migrants\ nCross-cutting concepts of anti-money laundering\n\n\nMoreover\, the works hop will serve as a platform to review and discuss further steps\, includi ng the roadmap and action plan to sustained national compilation of IFF st atistics in Egypt.\n\n\nTargeted participants of the training workshop are members of national Expert Group for statistical measurement of IFFs in E gypt\, allowing for additional technical personnel of relevant national st akeholders to partake to ensure better knowledge distribution and sharing to ensure continuation in capacity enhancing activities within national st akeholders.\n\nThe training workshop and the IFF expert group meeting will be conducted in Arabic and English with simultaneous interpretation avail able. The workshop will be conducted as an in-person event\, with limited hybrid option to cater for external experts to contribute to the training of national Expert Group members.\n<\;p>\;The United Nations integrate d SDGs Financing project for Egypt (INFF) aims to develop capacities and p ut in place simple systems to continuously measure\, map and compare finan cing flows. An important element of this project is identifying financing opportunities\, through the better availability and quality of data\, in p articular data on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs). IFFs threaten countries ’ ability to achieve the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goa ls (SDGs) by diverting resources from development.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p&g t\;Custodian agencies of SDG indicator 16.4.1\, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC)\, released Conceptual Framework for the Statistical Measurem ent of Illicit Financial Flows in October 2020. In May 2021\, UNCTAD final ised a draft of Methodological Guidelines to Measure Tax and Commercial IF Fs for pilot testing\, aimed at statistical and other national authorities with a mandate to collect and access relevant information. UNODC are fina lising the Guidelines to measure IFFs from extractive activities and illeg al drugs markets.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;Expert Group on IFFs in Egypt held two on-line meeting\, one on 8 December 2021 and one on 21 February 2 022 to refine data availability review and propose measurement plan for IF F statistics in Egypt\, including preliminary mapping of national agencies and identifying training requirements for its members. This national trai ning workshop on the statistical measurement of IFFs in Egypt is organised with two main specific objectives:<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;ol>\;\n<\;li&g t\;To review\, refine and consolidate the mapping of national agencies to measure IFFs in Egypt by hosting the in-person corroboration of Expert Gro up members\; and<\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;To provide training on methodol ogies to measure IFFs\, specifically by providing conceptual basis to the participants (guidelines\, discussions) and technical training on:\n<\;u l>\;\n<\;li>\;Tax and commercial IFF methodologies of trade misinvoi cing: method#1 Partner Country Method+ (PCM+) and method#2 Price Filter Me thod+ (PFM+)<\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Crime-related IFF methodologies on drugs trafficking and smuggling of migrants<\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Cros s-cutting concepts of anti-money laundering<\;/li>\;\n<\;/ul>\;\n& lt\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Moreover\, the workshop will serve as a platform to review and discuss further steps\, including the roadmap and action pl an to sustained national compilation of IFF statistics in Egypt.<\;/li&g t\;\n<\;/ol>\;\n\n<\;p>\;Targeted participants of the training wor kshop are members of national Expert Group for statistical measurement of IFFs in Egypt\, allowing for additional technical personnel of relevant na tional stakeholders to partake to ensure better knowledge distribution and sharing to ensure continuation in capacity enhancing activities within na tional stakeholders.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;The training workshop and t he IFF expert group meeting will be conducted in Arabic and English with s imultaneous interpretation available. The workshop will be conducted as an in-person event\, with limited hybrid option to cater for external expert s to contribute to the training of national Expert Group members.<\;/p&g t\;\n\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/training-w orkshop-statistical-measurement-illicit-financial-flows-iffs-egypt DTSTAMP:20260717T024634Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR