Capacity Development Tools

This Manual, developed by the UN Tax Committee, is a compact training tool for beginners with limited experience in tax treaty negotiation. It seeks to provide practical guidance to tax treaty negotiators in developing countries, in particular those who negotiate based on the United Nations Model Double Taxation Convention between Developed and Developing Countries. It deals with all the basic aspects of tax treaty negotiation, both from the practical and the substantive point of view, and it is focused on the realities and stages of capacity development of developing countries.

A Toolkit on Disability is designed for the African context and aims to: Provide practical tools on various disability-related issues to government officials, members of parliament, civil and public servants at all levels, disabled persons organizations (DPOs) and all those with an interest in the inclusion of persons with disabilities in society and development; Support the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and disability-inclusive development; Offer examples of good practices from many countries in the African region. The Toolkit is…

The World Youth Report on Youth Civic Engagement provides policy analysis and recommendations on how to enhance youth engagement in political, economic and community life

Cost benefit analysis tool for identifying institutional capacity building priorities in LDCs: an application to Uganda

The Handbook provides guidance on planning, organisation and administration of a population and housing census. It also describes in details the pre-enumeration operations, the field enumeration, data processing, census products, dissemination and utilisation of census data, as well as evaluation, documentation and archiving.

This report is a step towards better understanding of country practices and difficulties and challenges in maintaining the civil registration system and in collecting and compiling vital statistics. The report can help countries
in the African region to share experiences while in the process of improving their civil registration and vital statistics system, particularly in the context of the Africa Programme on Accelerated Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics and the Conferences of African Ministers Responsible for Civil Registration.

The International Recommendations for Tourism Statistics 2008 Compilation Guide is a companion document to the International Recommendations for Tourism Statistics (IRTS 2008). The primary purpose of this Compilation Guide is to provide further clarifications and practical guidance for using sources and methods to compile statistics on tourism. It is designed to support the production of a high quality set of basic data and indicators in each country, and to strengthen the international comparability of tourism statistics. The Compilation Guide was prepared by national compilers of tourism…

The objective of the Manual is to produce and disseminate a set of methodology sheets or metadata for the collection or compilation of all environment statistics of the Basic Set of Environment Statistics embedded in the FDES 2013. These methodology sheets offer detailed and in-depth methodological guidance including definitions, classifications, statistical methods for collection and/or compilation, dissemination and main uses of the sets of the respective environment statistics.

The Basic Set of Environment Statistics is a comprehensive, but not exhaustive, set of statistics designed to support countries developing national environment statistics programmes by helping them make decisions on priorities for statistical development. It is embedded in the FDES 2013 and consists of 458 individual statistics organized into the structure of the FDES (components, sub-components and topics). The Basic Set is divided into three tiers, based on the level of relevance, availability and methodological development of the statistics.

UNSD, in collaboration with the Expert Group on Environment Statistics, has developed the Environment Statistics Self-Assessment Tool (ESSAT) in support of the FDES 2013. The purpose of the ESSAT is to assist countries in both developing their environment statistics programmes and collecting their own data on the environment, and to assess the state of environment statistics and the needs for their development at the national level consistent with the scope of the FDES 2013.