At the 65th World Statistics Congress 2025, EGRISS will participate in session “Including the Excluded – Innovations for Mainstreaming Vulnerable Groups in Strategies for Statistics”, which aim to support the building of a consensus on how best to ‘include the excluded’ systematically within statistical planning processes based on learning from recent innovations and experiences.

Critical issues, challenges, and opportunities will be examined based on global learning and three specific examples:

– the provision of gender statistics guidelines within the overall NSDS guidelines by PARIS21 in collaboration with UN Women. This aims to help National Statistical Systems identify gender data gaps, engage with a diverse array of stakeholders, ensure sustainable production and use of gender data
– a toolkit developed by UNICEF in partnership with PARIS21 which aims to help stakeholders truly mainstream Child Rights into NSDS processes. This is a potentially normative step to be built on in mainstreaming vulnerable groups in general
– national efforts to incorporate statistics on internally displaced persons (IDP) into NSDSs in the Horn of Africa such as Djibouti.

The session will include:

Chair – Matthew Shearing, Co-Chair of ISI Capacity Building Committee
Presenter/panelist 1 – Karen Bett, Senior Policy Manager – Data Equity and Inclusion, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD)
Presenter/panelist 2 – Natalia Baal, Head of Secretariat, Expert Group on Refugee, IDP, and Statelessness Statistics (EGRISS)
Presenter/panelist 3 – Hrayr Wannis, Child Rights Monitoring Manager, UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office 
Presenter/panelist 4 – Omar Moussa Ali, Director of Demographic and Social Statistics, Institute of Statistics of Djibouti (INSTAD)