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Statistical Projects and Data on Azerbaijan and
Central Asian Republics |
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Section A -
Projects | |
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The Technical Assistance Programs of the
State Institute of Statistics for Azerbaijan and Central Asian
Republics | |
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Providing the economic, social and cultural developments, the basic
requirements of market economy and of globalisation extended part of this
system, to the government, the public, the private sector and the
international institutions with the timely, reliable and comparable
statistical data has been one of the priority subjects of the Caucasian
and Central Asian Republics when they gained their independence.
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Recognizing the importance of a strong statistical infrastructure
for transition to market economy, the State Institute of Statistics (SIS)
aims at assisting the Newly Independent States of Former Soviet Union and
the other transition countries in developing a new statistical system that
is in conformity with internationally accepted standards and which meets
the needs of a market economy. | |
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In
this frame, several technical assistance programs on bilateral basis to
these countries have been implemented by SIS and priority has been given
to Caucasian and Central Asian Republics because of the cultural and
historical ties between Turkey and those countries. | |
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In the
direction of the requests of technical assistance from the statistical
organizations of Azerbaijan and Central Asian Republics, SIS has prepared
5 separate projects on Strengthening the Statistical Activities for
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in
collaboration with the Turkish International Cooperation Agency (TICA). In
order to implement these projects, a cooperation protocol between SIS and
TICA was signed on May 9, 1994. The projects are still in force.
Activities included in the protocol are as follows; | |
| i) training programs, (courses, seminars, workshops etc.) | |
| ii) consultancy services, | |
| iii) provision of equipment, | |
| iv) publication printing. | |
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The activities realized in the context of the Project on Strengthening the Statistical Activities to date are as follows: | |
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SIS experts have visited the related countries in order to carry out the
consultancy services. | |
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- 142
experts from the relating countries have participated in the seminars,
courses, workshops and on-the-job training programs organized at SIS.
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the context of the publication printing, "1994, Statistical Yearbook of
Azerbaijan", "75th Anniversary of Azerbaijan" and "Population Census of
Turkmenistan, 1995" were designed and printed in international standards
at SIS. | |
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equipment support has been provided to statistical offices of the
beneficiary countries. | |
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the aim of making some revisions on the activities according to the changing
priorities, the tripartite review meetings have been realized with the
participation of the high level authorities from SIS, TICA and the related
statistical offices. In this context, 5 tripartite review meetings were
held in Ankara(1995), in Istanbul(1997), in Almaty(1998), in Bishkek(2000)
and in Bakü(2003). | |
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- Fifth Tripartite Review Meeting (29-31 May 2003, Bakü) In the Fifth Tripartite Rewiew Meeting held in Bakü, it was decided that the strengthening the Statistical Activities Projects would be terminated and the cooperation in the field of statistics between SIS and the statistical offices of the relating countries would be continued in the context of the new protocols to be signed on bilateral basis. In order to be prepared the cooperation protocols, the statistical offices of the relating countries will send detailed information about their requests and priority needs to the SIS. |
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