The Advisory Group for the co-ordination of EU technical cooperation on statistics in Africa was set up by decision of the Statistical Programming Committee (SPC) in May 2006 with a mandate of initiating a "joined-up" approach for EU efforts in statistical capacity building in developing countries. The group is chaired by Eurostat and comprises representatives of National Statistical Institutes (NSIs) or development departments in Member States and EEA countries, the EFTA secretariat, Paris21 and World Bank. Eurostat provides the secretariat. One meeting is held annually in Luxembourg.
