Navigating the water crisis: where do we need the skills?
With South Africa in the grip of drought, the role of local municipalities to provide clean water, maintain infrastructure, and reduce wastage has become more important than ever. Recent data on staff vacancies show which municipalities are struggling to fill funded posts in their water management departments. Municipalities in Free State seem to be struggling read more »
SG attends 5th OECD World Forum on Statistics in Guadalajara Mexico
Challenges and opportunities in advancing human endeavor through SDGs: Guarding against the tyranny of technology and numerology Pali Lehohla Statistician-General South Africa 5th OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy Guadalajara Mexico 13-15 October 2015 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present the last opportunity for the universe to mend its ways and advance human read more »
ASSD Concept key note
Draft CONCEPT NOTE 11TH AFRICA SYMPOSIUM ON STATISTICAL DEVELOPMENT “Promoting Use of Information and Communication Technology Solutions in Improving Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Africa” 1. Introduction The year 2015 has unleashed a number of activities aimed at making Africa Agenda 2063 more practical. Among these are the adoption of its first read more »
Assd Civil Registration and Vital Statistics – English
Photo: Ministers call to action, Durban, South Africa, 2012 The CRVS agenda started in September 2012 when African Ministers responsible for civil registration gathered for their second conference held in South Africa and called upon all African countries to undertake in-depth assessments of their CRVS systems. The conference further called on the regional CRVS Secretariat, read more »
ASSD’s journey
The ASSD Journey 1. The Round of Population and Housing Censuses Journey The inaugural objective of the Africa Symposium on Statistical Development (ASSD) was to strengthen collaboration in the mobilisation of African countries to conduct population censuses in the 2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses (RPHCs). The first six ASSDs, focusing on the 2010 read more »
ASSD in brief
The Africa Symposia on Statistical Development in Brief The Africa Symposium on Statistical Development is a forum created to address a concern by African statisticians in a gathering in Yaoundé, Cameroon in the year 2005. Taking place against a background of poor performance of African countries in undertaking population census previously and a report that read more »
Statement by Chairman
Statement on the 11th Africa Symposium on Statistical Development Pali J. Lehohla: South African Statistician-General and ASSD Chairman I cannot wait to be part of, and meet with you at the next majestic gathering of the African Statistical Community and our statistical development partners; the 11th Africa Symposium on Statistical Development (ASSD) to be held read more »
Invitation
Statement on the 11th Africa Symposium on Statistical Development Pali J. Lehohla: South African Statistician-General and ASSD Chairman I cannot wait to be part of, and meet with you at the next majestic gathering of the African Statistical Community and our statistical development partners; the 11th Africa Symposium on Statistical Development (ASSD) to be held read more »
Bucket toilets: an update
The bucket toilet system remains a persistent phenomenon in seven of the nine provinces, despite measures to eradicate it. Where are bucket toilets still in use? And is South Africa succeeding in reducing its usage? Data from Stats SA’s latest Non-financial census of municipalities provides some insight into these questions. Eastern Cape boasts largest decrease read more »
Municipal service delivery: less for free
More basic services are being extended to municipalities’ constituencies, but fewer of these services are being provided for free. This is according to the 2014 annual Non-financial census of municipalities report, which provides municipal data on various services (i.e. electricity, water, sewerage and sanitation, and solid waste management), details on indigents, and information on read more »