Online training course on water accounts for the Mediterranean Partner Countries

The online training course on ”Water accounts for the Mediterranean Partner countries” aims to train participants in water accounting as laid out in the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) - Central Framework and to present country experiences compiling water accounts in countries that are part of the Euro Mediterranean Statistical Cooperation under the MEDSTAT V Programme.    

MEDSTAT V, funded by the EU and managed by Eurostat,  is the regional statistical programme in the Southern Neighbourhood countries. The programme aims to improve the development, production and dissemination of reliable and comparable statistical data in the Southern Neighbourhood region as well as to strengthen the institutional capacity of the national statistical offices of partner countries.  

The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water (SEEA-Water) provide a reliable and coherent statistical framework consisting of a comprehensive set of tables and accounts for water-related data.  The concepts, definitions and classifications facilitate the organization of water information in support of policy analysis and research on water.

The course comprises three interactive live webinars, accompanied by six online modules, which are  scheduled to run from 23 April through mid-May 2024.  The training will be imparted in cooperation with the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA). 

Participants are expected to take the self-paced SEEA-Water online courses developed by UNSD, which are available (in English and Arabic) in the UN Global Platform. Details on the materials for preparation shown in the Course description in the section Documents below.

First webinar will take place on 23 April 2024, from 14:00 to 16:00 (CET)