The objective of the technical assistance (TA) was to strengthen the capacity of national statistics offices (NSOs) in Asia and the Pacific to meet the increasing data demands for policy making and monitoring of development goals and targets, with focus on: (i) subnational disaggregation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); (ii) enhanced compilation of national accounts and other key economic indicators; and (iii) provision of strategic inputs on the modernization of national statistical systems (NSS) to inform policy design and statistical capacity-building initiatives of the global st