The Census, Survey and Demography Division of the Samoa Bureau of Statistics conducted its consultation with the Ministry of Health on Friday 24th November 2023 at the Orator Hotel Conference room. The main objective of this consultation is to discuss the challenges and lessons learnt from the first and second year of the PforR project and a way forward for the following years of the project. More than 30 participants from the Ministry of Health attended the consultation and they represented all the technical divisions who implemented the activities and mainly for the Disbursement Link Indicators (DLI’s) of the project. The workshop gave a great opportunity for the two ministries to not only to discuss challenges but also the capacity building and way forward for the improvement of the project for following years

Technical Training on Survey Solutions
From 24–28 August 2026, the Census, Survey and Demography Team as well as the nominated staff from the Data Processing and ICT Division took part in training on Survey Solutions, delivered with the support of Pacific Community (SPC) trainers and survey design specialists, Mr Toga Raikoti and Mr Bertrand Buffiere.




