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In 2018, UNFPA and OCHA released a partnership agreement on CODs leveraging UNFPA's vast population expertise and strong relationship with national statistics offices in many countries. As per the agreement, UNFPA Regional Offices together with HQ and CO colleagues will identify the best-available sex-and-age disaggregated dataset for each country and discuss their findings with OCHA's IM at the Regional (and country) level. The agreed dataset is then presented to the IMWG/IM network for further validation and adoption. If adopted, the dataset becomes the official COD-PS for a particular country. In most cases, the COD-PS will be publicly available at HDX. However, sensitive COD-PS will have customized access levels. The IM network should include representative(s) from UNFPA, if this is not possible, UNFPA should always be consulted in regards to the population statistics COD.
For countries with unavailable (or outdated) population projections, UNFPA will develop a model to estimate population projections. The model's methodology will be thoroughly documented and presented to the IMWG/ IM network. For
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