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Working Group on Crime Statistics in Africa
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A Joint United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)-United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Workshop on Crime Statistics was held on 9-12 December 2008 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFRI) were represented, and it was attended by participants from Algeria, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, USA, Zimbabwe, UNODC and UNECA.
One of the recommendations of the workshop was to foster the "Development of an African framework of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics to put existing international standards/guidelines into the African context and support countries in their efforts to strengthen their capacity to produce and disseminate crime and criminal justice statistics" and to facilitate the realisation of this recommendation - A network of experts on crime and criminal justice statistics in Africa would be established. A “working group on crime statistics” under the UNECA knowledge management platform is to ensure a continuous exchange of information among African experts in this area.
National and international stakeholders in the field of crime and criminal justice statistics will be invited to participate in this working group. Task teams may be set up within the working group to deal with specific tasks and issues.
UNECA, African Development Bank(AfDB), AUC and other African stakeholders should consider the translation of UN Manual on Development of a System of Criminal Justice Statistics, the UNODC-United Nations Children's Fund(UNICEF) Manual on the Measurement of Juvenile Justice Indicators and the forthcoming UNODC-United Nations Economic Commission for Europe(UNECE) Manual on Victimization Surveys into the main African official languages i.e Arabic, English, French and Portuguese.
Amongst related documents is the report on Crime and Development in Africa.
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