MINSK, 17 March (BelTA) – The Belarusian Labor and Social Security Ministry and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) are carrying out the international technical assistance project “Strengthening scientific and educational capacities of the Republic of Belarus in the field of demographic data collection, analysis, and use for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals”, BelTA learned from the ministry.
The project is aimed at improving the country's capacities in education and research in demographics, monitoring the implementation of the existing documents and programs and development of new ones on population and demographic issues. It shall be implemented in furtherance of the project “Supporting the implementation of the national program of demographic security of the Republic of Belarus” for 2015-2017, which was also carried out by the Labor and Social Security Ministry in association with the UNFPA and with Russia's support.
The Russian government will be the main sponsor of the project. The project budget equals $972,590. The project is meant to strengthen partner relations between the government agencies, scientific organizations, and experts in Belarus, Russia, and other countries.
“The main goal is to ensure that government agencies, scientific and educational institutions efficiently use official statistics and demographic research in developing and implementing the state demographic policy. One of the key activities of the project is to conduct the second Generations and Gender survey. The results of the survey will be used for drawing up and implementing strategic and framework documents. The first survey was conducted in 2017. The second one will rely on international expertise, using the recommended questionnaire and specific rules regarding the sample frame. The second survey will also take into account the experience of data analysis from the first survey,” the ministry said.
The partners of the project in Belarus are the Healthcare Ministry, the National Statistics Committee, the Labor Research Institute and the National Institute for Advanced Training and Retraining of Personnel of the Labor and Social Security Ministry, the Economic Research Institute of the Economy Ministry, the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Belarusian State University and its Center for Social and Political Studies. The partners from Russia are the Federal State Statistic Service, the CIS Interstate Statistical Committee, Moscow State University, the National Research University Higher School of Economics, and the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
