February 06 2023, Amman - The European Union (EU) and Jordan’s Department of Statistics (DoS), by organizing a kick-off event, officially launched today their Twinning Project on Statistics, which aims to strengthen the latter’s capacity in terms of compilation, analysis and reporting of statistical data in line with International and European best practices.

In cooperation with DoS, the 1.5 million Euro project is being implemented by Statistics Denmark (Leading Member State), the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat), and Statistics Lithuania – State Data Agency (Junior project partners), with support from Statistics Finland to implement the 24-month Twinning project on statistics. The Project underpin an increase of DoS capacity’s interactions with the EU and support in focusing directly on improving staff skills and enhancing more efficient processes and structure.

This Twinning project will focus on strengthening and developing Jordan’s business and population statistics in line with best international practices through the incorporation of administrative data sources. Furthermore, it aims to improve the statistical data the DoS produces by creating new, high-quality statistics with more detailed breakdown by geography and population. Finally, the project will focus on updating and strengthening current methodologies, particularly for survey-based data.

The kick-off event was attended by the EU Delegation to Jordan, Leading Member State and Junior project leaders, representatives from the DoS, several Ministries, Public Departments, International Organizations and strategic partners of the DoS.