The Second High-Level Advocacy Forum on Statistics (HLF2),Strategising for the Development of Statistics in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in the Post-2015 Development Agenda,was held at the Radisson Grenada Beach Resort, St. George’s, Grenada on 26 May 2014. Dr. The Right Honourable Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenadawas the keynote speaker at the Forum.The Forum requested that the Prime Minister should“champion the cause of statistics and statisticians at the highest level of the Community with the same verve and vigour that he had infused in leading the Community in the area of Information and Communication Technology”.

The direct response to this request by the Prime Minister was, “Use me as an advocate of statistics”, which included his taking up withhis fellow Heads of Governmentthe issues and concerns on statistics and actions that can serve to make available statistics for decision-making and for empowering the people of the Region.

The Fifteenth Meeting of the CARICOM Advisory Group on Statistics (AGS) and the Thirty-Ninth Meeting of the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians (SCCS), both of which were held in Georgetown, Guyana in October 2014, having considered the Report of the HLF2,decided to prepare a document with concrete proposals which the Prime Minister of Grenada can take to the appropriate Heads of Government meeting. In the section that follows,the Proposals are presented as “Issues” and concomitant “Specific Actions”. Background information on the Overview of the Forum is in the Annexto this document