MUSCAT: The First Regional Workshop on 'Improving Childhood Statistics in the GCC Countries' opened in Muscat on Tuesday with a call to... The three-day workshop is organised by the Statistical Centre for the GCC (GCC-STAT) in cooperation with the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef).It opened under the auspices of HH Sayyidah Dr Mona bint Fahd al Said, Assistant Vice-Chancellor for International Cooperation at SQU and Chairperson of the Board of Children First.