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Malawi reaps from regional agreement
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Phillip Banda - 29-04-2002 |
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Malawi has for the past few years trained about 20 statistical officers through the Eastern Africa Statistical Training Centre (EASTC), a regional centre for SADC and Comesa member countries.
This was disclosed by Malawi’s Commissioner of Census and Statistics Charles Machinjiri at the opening of the first joint meeting of the advisory board of the EASTC and the advisory council of the Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (ISAE) on Thursday in Mangochi.
He said on its part Malawi has over the past years tried to establish links among local institutions and the regional training centres.
“At the beginning of last year the National Statistical Office and the department of statistics at the University of Malawi jointly set up a Certificate in Statistics course,” he said.
He said that at the meantime they are at the early stages of trying to link this course to that offered by EASTC.
Speaking earlier at the same function, Deputy Secretary to the Office of the President and Cabinet Kamphambe Nkhoma hailed the meeting describing it as very important.
“It is in meetings like this one that directors of statistical offices from the SADC and Comesa regions assess what the two regional training institutions have achieved in the previous year and what their strategies for the future would be,” said Nkhoma. |
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