ICstat International Cooperation Center for Statistics "Luigi Bodio"

ICstat, "Centro per la Cooperazione Statistica Internazionale - Luigi Bodio" (International Cooperation Center for Statistics) is a non-profit association, based in Rome, created on April 1st, 1996. The Association promotes the international cooperation in the field of statistics, economics and law. ICstat co-ordinates technical assistance projects financed by international institutions (EC, World Bank, FAO, MAE etc.) and is particularly involved in several Transition and Developing Countries. The Association supports democratic governance, crisis prevention and recovery, human rights application and monitoring systems, post-conflict political elections and referendum. Moreover ICstat produces studies for scientific and policy purposes.

The Association was established with the aim of:

• Promoting statistical culture at an international level.
• Providing the Italian statistical community with an operational basis able to promote and co-ordinate programmes for technical assistance financed by different institutions, such as the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Commission, and agencies belonging to the UN system, the World Bank and others.
While operating worldwide, ICstat has nevertheless been particularly involved in the Balkans and Eastern and Central European countries as well as in the Mediterranean basin. 

The Association operates under the responsibility of a Board of Directors and a Board of Auditors appointed by the General Assembly. The Board nominates a Director as a general manager for promoting and planning the overall activities on the base of the guidelines provided by the Board. ICstat international staff is composed of experienced and multi-lingual personnel specialized in various fields. It includes technical experts in charge of the management and monitoring of the projects and desk officers, who are responsible for budgeting and administrative procedures. Its secretariat and finance section actively contribute to ICstat operations, by providing the required support for the transparency and effectiveness of the implemented projects, according to the rules adopted by the financing institutions. An IT unit provides support to the adopted information systems and strategies, and the development and maintenance of databanks and the web site.
A huge database of high level stand-by experts, to be mobilized according to specific requirements on projects all over the world, completes the spectrum of human resources.

• institutional building: strengthening of statistical institution, their legal basis, organisational structure and strategic planning;
• enhancement and harmonization of official statistics production according to international norms and standards, especially E.U. acquis communautaire;
• transfer of methodologies, including census planning and management, survey and sampling techniques, quality statistics, database management and statistical applications;
• agricultural statistics (farm register), environment statistics (water, waste, air emissions and sustainable development indicators), cartography, remote sensing and GIS.

As was already mentioned ICstat coordinates technical assistance projects financed by international institutions, some of which are:

For more information about the ICstat Projects click here

If you are interested in proposing yourself for the Technical Co-operation Projects of ICstat,
please download the EU Format for CV ( EN FR) and return it completed to the following address: ICstat@ICstat.org

Currently there are some available short term positions which you can find here

View the website of ICstat International Cooperation Center for Statistics "Luigi Bodio" in (English)