Promoting security and justice statistical systems in Latin America
On June 30th, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) and the UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence in Statistical Information on Government, Crime, Victimization and Justice organized the last meeting of the Working Group for the development of a Manual on the Design of Security and Justice Statistical Systems.
This Working Group, formed within the framework of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA) of ECLAC, has worked hard throughout the 2020-2021 biennium to develop a manual to guide national efforts to generate statistical information on crime and criminal justice in Latin America and the Caribbean in a harmonized fashion. Following international standards, the manual will generate methodological guidelines for the structuring, organization and strengthening of these systems. In addition, the manual will help to generate statistical information to monitor the indicators of the 2030 Agenda, in particular Sustainable Development Goals 5, 11 and 16.
Final comments on the draft manual were issued at the meeting of the Working Group. The document will be presented and approved at the Eleventh Meeting of the SCA, a biennial event coordinated by the Statistics Division of ECLAC that brings together all National Statistical Offices from the region. Once approved, it will be published as a regional standard for the generation comparable data in and between criminal justice system institutions and National Statistical Offices, for decision making and the design, monitoring and evaluation of evidence-based public policies.
The members of the Working Group include Mexico, as the coordinating country, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Peru and the United Nations Development Program. The Center of Excellence serves as the group’s Technical Secretariat.
Links of interest: https://www.cepal.org/es/organos-subsidiarios/conferencia-estadistica-americas