## High-level BPM7/2025 SNA Workshop — October 22–24, 2025 (Bangkok Time)

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**Canonical URL:** [High-level BPM7/2025 SNA Workshop — October 22–24, 2025 (Bangkok Time)](https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/data/statistics/bmp7/events/imf-cdot-workshop-agenda-october-2025.pdf)

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### Overview
- Event dates: October 22–24, 2025.
- Venue: Chatrium Hotel Riverside, Bangkok.
- Organizers and lead presenters: IMF STA (Jim Tebrake, Carlos Sánchez-Muñoz, Venkat Josyula, Margarida Martins), UNESCAP (Ms. Rachael Beaven; Alick Nyasulu), and other international organization representatives.
- Opening session presenters:
  - Mr. Jim Tebrake, Deputy Director, IMF STA.
  - Ms. Rachael Beaven, Director, Statistics Division, UNESCAP.
- Registration and administrative timeline highlights:
  - Registration: 9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. (October 22, 2025).
  - Administrative briefing: 9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. (October 22, 2025).
  - Closing session: 4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (October 24, 2025).

### Strategic implementation objectives and timeline
- IMF-presented implementation target: countries to implement the updated SNA and BPM within an implementation window of 2029–30.
- Recommendation: build implementation into countries’ strategic plans for their national statistical systems.
- Tools to support implementation:
  - Implementation playbook (to be used as a guide throughout the workshop).
  - Draft resource planning tool (covers specific requirements, estimated costs, funding sources, lead and partner institutions, timeframes, and dependencies).
- Sessions addressing timeline and planning:
  - Session 8: Implementation Planning: Timeline — presentation by Venkat Josyula; roundtable discussion (October 23, 2025, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.).
  - Emphasis on institutional readiness, alignment with national initiatives, and external policy environments.

### Self-assessments, scoping, and statistical infrastructure
- IMF introduced new tools to assess alignment with BPM and SNA standards and to scope workplans (Session 5: October 23, 2025, 9:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.).
- Summary results from self-assessment tools completed by participating economies were presented and benchmarked against other countries that completed self-assessments.
- Sessions on accuracy and reliability self-assessments:
  - Balance of Payments and International Investment Position — Venkat Josyula.
  - National Accounts — Margarida Martins.
- Statistical infrastructure priorities (Session 6: October 23, 2025, 11:15 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.):
  - Improve data collection systems.
  - Integrate technology.
  - Enhance data sharing across agencies.
  - Prioritizing investment in statistical infrastructure — presentation by Carlos Sánchez-Muñoz.
  - Presentation of questionnaires to assess accuracy and reliability against international best practices; summary results from participating economies’ completed self-assessments were presented.

### Statistical business processes and product relevance
- Need to modernize statistical business processes in parallel with technical alignment to BPM/SNA recommendations (Session 7: October 23, 2025, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.).
- Benefits of business process integration:
  - Eliminate inefficiencies.
  - Enhance internal consistency.
  - Improve data quality.
- Practical guidance provided:
  - Comprehensive checklist for evaluating existing processes, including process mapping, task alignment, governance, and change management.
  - Updating Statistical Business Processes — presentation by Margarida Martins.
- Overview of major changes and potential new statistical products (Session 4: October 22, 2025, 4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.):
  - Focus on benefits to policy makers and data users: enhancing data accessibility, improved relevance, and enabling better data-driven decisions.
  - Highlighted responding to user demands related to economic interconnectedness, digitalization, financial innovation, and wellbeing.

### Resources, staffing, communication, and dissemination
- Resourcing implementation (Session 9: October 24, 2025, 9:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.):
  - Two broad aspects: securing funding for implementation and human resources considerations.
  - Alternative staffing approaches: use current statistical production team or create a separate implementation team to ensure sustainability and responsiveness to evolving needs.
  - Presenters on resources:
    - Resources: Funding Sources — Carlos Sánchez-Muñoz.
    - Resources: Structure — Jim Tebrake.
- Communication and dissemination (Session 10: October 24, 2025, 11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.):
  - Importance of ongoing communication with policy makers, data users, and data providers to secure support and improve understanding.
  - Need to communicate scope, timeline, expected revisions (including to key macroeconomic aggregates), and approaches to disseminating results.
  - Presentations from selected countries on communication practices: Singapore Statistics Department; Reserve Bank of India; Malaysia Statistics Department.
  - Developing a Communication and Dissemination Strategy — Margarida Martins.

### Country and regional experiences; capacity development support
- Country and regional implementation experiences discussed (Session 2, October 22, 2025, 12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.):
  - 2008 SNA implementation — Alick Nyasulu, UNESCAP.
  - BPM6 implementation — Venkat Josyula, Senior Economist, IMF STA.
  - Country examples: BPM6 implementations from China and Thailand; 2008 SNA example: Korea.
  - Panel and participant-shared experiences highlighted successes, improvement areas, and encountered challenges.
- Support for implementation (Session 11: October 24, 2025, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.):
  - International organizations described planned support for implementing macroeconomic statistical standards and strengthening national statistical systems (training, technical assistance, compilation guidance).
  - Named contributors: Venkat Josyula, Margarida Martins, Renato Perez (IMF); Alick Nyasulu (UNESCAP); World Bank (remote-TBC).
  - Participants provided input on capacity-building needs and engaged with international organizations on capacity development programs.

### Workshop process, engagement, and next steps
- Engagement approach:
  - Emphasis on engaging a wide range of stakeholders when developing implementation plans; participants invited to consider different stakeholder engagement approaches.
  - Multiple roundtable discussions and participant presentations across sessions to surface country-specific lessons and action items.
- Workshop outputs and follow-up:
  - Use of the implementation playbook as a continuous guide.
  - IMF experts to summarize key outcomes and define the way forward to continue engagement with countries on their implementation plans (Session 12: Key Takeaways and Wrap Up — October 24, 2025, 3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.).
- Additional event note:
  - Social gathering-cocktails (Hosted by IMF): October 23, 2025, 5:30 p.m. – 7.30 p.m.

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_Source: https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/data/statistics/bmp7/events/imf-cdot-workshop-agenda-october-2025.pdf_