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Process
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In 2018, UNFPA and OCHA released a partnership agreement on CODsformally agreed on leveraging UNFPA's vast population expertise and strong relationship with national statistics offices partnerships in regards to population data in many countries to be responsible for increasing the availability and quality of COD-PS datasets around the world. 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.
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