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DTSTART:20260420T090000Z
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LOCATION:Ouagadougou\, Burkina Faso
SUMMARY:Joint technical assistance for conducting the survey on internation
 al trade in services in Mali\, Niger and Togo
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:ContextWith a view to measuring wealth creation and the dynamic
 s of international trade relations\, governments\, institutions\, business
 es\, and analysts are expressing a growing need for relevant\, detailed\, 
 and comparable statistics on trade in services.Quantifying trade in servic
 es—fundamentally more difficult than measuring trade in goods—depends 
 on information that can be provided by companies’ accounting and record 
 management systems or by individuals\, as well as on various data sources\
 , including administrative sources\, surveys\, and estimation techniques.T
 he UEMOA Commission has had a successful collaboration experience with the
  United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)\, which made 
 it possible to establish a harmonized methodological and regulatory framew
 ork aligned withinternational norms and standards for the collection\, pro
 cessing\, and dissemination of Statistics on International Trade in Servic
 es (SITS). This collaboration also led to the development and updates of a
  software application\, TiSSTAT\, to automate the entire survey process. T
 o date\, UEMOA Member States have conducted several rounds of ongoing SITS
  surveys. However\, they do not yet have experience using TiSSTAT.In order
  to better prepare the delivery of technical assistance\, the UEMOA Commis
 sion and UNCTAD held videoconference meetings with national teams. It is i
 mportant to note that the three countries—Mali\, Niger\, and Togo—are 
 preparing to integrate TiSSTAT for the first time into their systems for c
 ollecting and processing dataon international trade in services.As part of
  this technical assistance\, and to ensure that national experts can effec
 tively take ownership of this tool\, support is required during the data c
 ollection phase. It will initially focus on introducing experts to the app
 lication environment\, sample management\, configuration of official lette
 rs\, questionnaire management\, monitoring of data collection or data entr
 y\, etc.The implementation of this technical assistance will enable UNCTAD
  and the UEMOA Commission to ensure that the three NSIs achieve optimal ma
 stery of all TiSSTAT functionalities for managing the sampling framework a
 nd monitoring data collection.ObjectivesThe main objective of this technic
 al assistance is to improve data collection on international trade in serv
 ices by implementing the functionalities of TiSSTAT.More specifically\, th
 is technical assistance aims to:Ensure optimal deployment of TiSSTAT\;Ensu
 re proper configuration of TiSSTAT\;Guarantee secure access to TiSSTAT for
  all stakeholders\;Test the proper functioning of all features\, particula
 rly those related to data collection\;Ensure alignment of national data co
 llection questionnaires with those developed in TiSSTAT\;Manage the sampli
 ng framework and draw a stratified sample within TiSSTAT\;Conduct a pilot 
 survey on a limited sample using TiSSTAT.https://unctad.org/statistics/tra
 de-services-statistics-information-system-tisstat\n\nView meeting on uncta
 d.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/joint-technical-assistance-conducting-su
 rvey-international-trade-services-mali-niger-and
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LOCATION:Ouagadougou\, Burkina Faso
SUMMARY:Joint technical assistance for conducting the survey on internation
 al trade in services in Mali\, Niger and Togo
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:ContextWith a view to measuring wealth creation and the dynamic
 s of international trade relations\, governments\, institutions\, business
 es\, and analysts are expressing a growing need for relevant\, detailed\, 
 and comparable statistics on trade in services.Quantifying trade in servic
 es—fundamentally more difficult than measuring trade in goods—depends 
 on information that can be provided by companies’ accounting and record 
 management systems or by individuals\, as well as on various data sources\
 , including administrative sources\, surveys\, and estimation techniques.T
 he UEMOA Commission has had a successful collaboration experience with the
  United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)\, which made 
 it possible to establish a harmonized methodological and regulatory framew
 ork aligned withinternational norms and standards for the collection\, pro
 cessing\, and dissemination of Statistics on International Trade in Servic
 es (SITS). This collaboration also led to the development and updates of a
  software application\, TiSSTAT\, to automate the entire survey process. T
 o date\, UEMOA Member States have conducted several rounds of ongoing SITS
  surveys. However\, they do not yet have experience using TiSSTAT.In order
  to better prepare the delivery of technical assistance\, the UEMOA Commis
 sion and UNCTAD held videoconference meetings with national teams. It is i
 mportant to note that the three countries—Mali\, Niger\, and Togo—are 
 preparing to integrate TiSSTAT for the first time into their systems for c
 ollecting and processing dataon international trade in services.As part of
  this technical assistance\, and to ensure that national experts can effec
 tively take ownership of this tool\, support is required during the data c
 ollection phase. It will initially focus on introducing experts to the app
 lication environment\, sample management\, configuration of official lette
 rs\, questionnaire management\, monitoring of data collection or data entr
 y\, etc.The implementation of this technical assistance will enable UNCTAD
  and the UEMOA Commission to ensure that the three NSIs achieve optimal ma
 stery of all TiSSTAT functionalities for managing the sampling framework a
 nd monitoring data collection.ObjectivesThe main objective of this technic
 al assistance is to improve data collection on international trade in serv
 ices by implementing the functionalities of TiSSTAT.More specifically\, th
 is technical assistance aims to:Ensure optimal deployment of TiSSTAT\;Ensu
 re proper configuration of TiSSTAT\;Guarantee secure access to TiSSTAT for
  all stakeholders\;Test the proper functioning of all features\, particula
 rly those related to data collection\;Ensure alignment of national data co
 llection questionnaires with those developed in TiSSTAT\;Manage the sampli
 ng framework and draw a stratified sample within TiSSTAT\;Conduct a pilot 
 survey on a limited sample using TiSSTAT.https://unctad.org/statistics/tra
 de-services-statistics-information-system-tisstat\n\nView meeting on uncta
 d.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/joint-technical-assistance-conducting-su
 rvey-international-trade-services-mali-niger-and
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DTSTART:20260422T090000Z
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LOCATION:Ouagadougou\, Burkina Faso
SUMMARY:Joint technical assistance for conducting the survey on internation
 al trade in services in Mali\, Niger and Togo
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:ContextWith a view to measuring wealth creation and the dynamic
 s of international trade relations\, governments\, institutions\, business
 es\, and analysts are expressing a growing need for relevant\, detailed\, 
 and comparable statistics on trade in services.Quantifying trade in servic
 es—fundamentally more difficult than measuring trade in goods—depends 
 on information that can be provided by companies’ accounting and record 
 management systems or by individuals\, as well as on various data sources\
 , including administrative sources\, surveys\, and estimation techniques.T
 he UEMOA Commission has had a successful collaboration experience with the
  United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)\, which made 
 it possible to establish a harmonized methodological and regulatory framew
 ork aligned withinternational norms and standards for the collection\, pro
 cessing\, and dissemination of Statistics on International Trade in Servic
 es (SITS). This collaboration also led to the development and updates of a
  software application\, TiSSTAT\, to automate the entire survey process. T
 o date\, UEMOA Member States have conducted several rounds of ongoing SITS
  surveys. However\, they do not yet have experience using TiSSTAT.In order
  to better prepare the delivery of technical assistance\, the UEMOA Commis
 sion and UNCTAD held videoconference meetings with national teams. It is i
 mportant to note that the three countries—Mali\, Niger\, and Togo—are 
 preparing to integrate TiSSTAT for the first time into their systems for c
 ollecting and processing dataon international trade in services.As part of
  this technical assistance\, and to ensure that national experts can effec
 tively take ownership of this tool\, support is required during the data c
 ollection phase. It will initially focus on introducing experts to the app
 lication environment\, sample management\, configuration of official lette
 rs\, questionnaire management\, monitoring of data collection or data entr
 y\, etc.The implementation of this technical assistance will enable UNCTAD
  and the UEMOA Commission to ensure that the three NSIs achieve optimal ma
 stery of all TiSSTAT functionalities for managing the sampling framework a
 nd monitoring data collection.ObjectivesThe main objective of this technic
 al assistance is to improve data collection on international trade in serv
 ices by implementing the functionalities of TiSSTAT.More specifically\, th
 is technical assistance aims to:Ensure optimal deployment of TiSSTAT\;Ensu
 re proper configuration of TiSSTAT\;Guarantee secure access to TiSSTAT for
  all stakeholders\;Test the proper functioning of all features\, particula
 rly those related to data collection\;Ensure alignment of national data co
 llection questionnaires with those developed in TiSSTAT\;Manage the sampli
 ng framework and draw a stratified sample within TiSSTAT\;Conduct a pilot 
 survey on a limited sample using TiSSTAT.https://unctad.org/statistics/tra
 de-services-statistics-information-system-tisstat\n\nView meeting on uncta
 d.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/joint-technical-assistance-conducting-su
 rvey-international-trade-services-mali-niger-and
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