In view of the 15th year of the World Bank's LSMS-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) initiative, Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS), in partnership with the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the Office of the Chief Government Statistician (OCGS), Zanzibar are organizing a conference titled “Fifteen Years of LSMS-ISA: Longitudinal Surveys for Research and Development.”
The event brings together top-tier researchers and high-level policymakers from within Africa to advance the dialogue on the research, policy, and development impacts of the LSMS-ISA initiative in Sub-Saharan Africa in general and Tanzania in particular. The keynote speaker for the conference will be Prof. Douglas Gollin, the Jason P. and Chloe Epstein Professor of Economics at Tufts University.
The conference will conclude with a panel discussion focused on (a) distilling the LSMS-ISA experience in the areas of statistical capacity building, and data use for research and policy, and (b) the role that longitudinal multi-topic household surveys can play against the background of climate change, future large-scale health shocks, and intensifying fragility and conflict.