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into strengths in regardis to modernization of statistical system in fragile
enviornments. PCBS hopes that the paper shall be beneficial for NSOs
operating under similar situations.

Keywords
SDGs; Partnership; Area of Conflicts; Modernization; Monitoring

1. Introduction
Countries are faced by conflicts and fragile conditions almost everywhere;
However the types and sizes of conflicts were different during the last few
decades, before that we were talking about a limited number of countries, but
now the number of countries with conflict is increasing sharply, conflict creates
special contexts in the countries of extreme socio- economic- environmental
conditions represented mainly by poverty, high unemployment rates, weak
economies, in addition to weak institutions, lack of resources and deteriorated
infrastructure; which lead to the ranking of statistics as a least priority,
decreased statistical awareness and increased statistical illiteracy. In reality
strong statistics is considered as written history by providing accurate figures
despite being under conflict leading to evidence based interventions and
assure monitoring for vital life areas which will help not only in making life
better but also in saving lives.
After the international recognition of SDGs under the slogan of “leave no
one behind”, there's a differentiation from previous plans and agendas
especially MDGs for taking the dimension of conflict in the goal 16 for the
ways of dealing with such countries, and goal 17 in enhancing partnership to
help in achieving development and bridging gap between different countries;
which makes statistics and providing the needs of SDGs as a necessity and
opportunity to create change under fragile and complex conditions, and to
boost human rights.
The requirement of SDGs represents a huge challenge for every statistical
system, and the challenge is duplicated for the countries which suffer from
conflicts and fragile conditions, and the way for achieving such huge needs is
to modernise and strengthen statistical systems and statistical institutions to
create an efficient monitoring system that lead to evidence based decisions,
and intervention to reach development for every person.
Modernization is defined as the way for developing, changing and
improving methodologies, tools, using new technologies, knowledge and
statistics science to “Increase the efficiency of statistical processes to produce
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outputs that better meet user’s needs ”, and the Keys for achieving

1 MacMillan. A.L (2015). Modernizing official statistics.
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