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Regional JODI Training Workshops
Over last three years,
IEF and its JODI partner organizations have prepared a series of
regional training workshops on JODI. Through these workshops, we help
our participating countries to report better quality data in the JODI
questionnaire. These workshops offer participants in charge of oil
statistics from governments an occasion to clarify JODI definitions and
to lean more about data quality assessment techniques. These workshops
are also a good opportunity to share their best practices on data
validation or to discuss their issues on data collections.
The first regional JODI training workshop was held in
August 2006, in Caracas, Venezuela, for energy statisticians from
Latin-American countries. It was hosted by the Ministry of Energy and
Petroleum of Venezuela and the Venezuelan national oil company, PDVSA.
More than 30 officials who are in charge of oil statistics from 14 OLADE
member countries attended this workshop.
The second workshop took place in January 2007 for Sub-Saharan African
Countries, in Johannesburg, South Africa. At the opening session, H.E.
Buyelwa Patience Sonjica, Minister of Minerals and Energy of South
Africa, voiced her country’s support for JODI.
In October 2007, the third workshop was addressed to officials from
Middle East and North African countries in Algiers, Algeria. This event
was under the support of the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Algeria.
Expert speakers from the IEF Secretariat, IEA, OPEC, UNSD and the IMF
contributed to the workshop.
The fourth workshop was delivered to Asia Pacific region in September
2008 in Bangkok, Thailand. 37 officials from 13 APEC member
countries/economies participated in this workshop.
These workshops are also an opportunity to invite representatives from
countries/economies to join our initiative with our hope to archive
complete geographical coverage. For
more information:
4th regional JODI Training Workshop for Asian Pacific Region – 10-12 Sep
2008, Bangkok, Thailand
3rd Regional JODI Training Workshop for Middle East and North African
Region – 23-26 Oct 2007, Algiers, Algeria
2nd Regional JODI Training Workshop for Sub-Saharan African Region – 30
Jan-2 Feb 2007, Johannesburg, South Africa
1st Regional JODI Training Workshop for Latin American Region - 14-18
August 2006, Caracas, Venezuela
Other regional JODI training workshops will be organized in 2009. |
