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Professor Ben Kiryegera
African Statistics Elder and Author of “The Emerging Data Revolution in Africa: Strengthening the Statistics, Policy and Decision-Making Chain”
As the global community puts into place mechanisms, institutional arrangements and reforms to scale up for the challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals and an accompanying data revolution, evidence from the journey of the African statistical community over the past two decades suggest that an emerging data revolution began back then with an aim to strengthen the linkages between statistics, policy and decision-making. One of the milestones in this trajectory has been the ISIbalo Capacity Building Programme whose outcome has been to change the African statistical landscape through concerted statistical development in key areas and key target groups. This website bears testimony to the seeds we have planted as a continent. Go back