A N Majelantle Government Statistician Central statistics Office Botswana

1. Coordination of national statistical systems and reporting mechanisms for MDG data to international agenciesBOTSWANA EXPERIENCEMay 2008 A N Majelantle Government Statistician Central statistics Office Botswana

2. contents • Introduction • Legislation and mandate of CSO • Objectives • Structure • Statistical Coordination • Linkage within Org and Planners • Linkage with int’ Org • Preparation of MDG Country report • Calendar of MDG data • Mechanism of Reporting MGD data to Int’ Agencies • MDG Data Report Problems • Conclusion • Recommendation

3. Introduction • Stats Act • Central statistics Office (CSO) placement

4. Legislation and Mandate of CSO • CSO: principal data collecting, processing, analysis and disseminating agency. • Responsible for coordinating, monitoring and supervising National statistics System. • Statutory mandate to produce and provide stakeholders with statistical information.

5. Structure • Centralised structure

6. Statistical coordination • Establishing linkages with various entities • Influenced by the structure • Leads to maximum intergration • Leads to application of common standards • Ensure maximum cooperation • Improve awareness of the importance of statistics • Identify statistical gaps

7. Lincage within og & Planners • Internal communication (meetings etc0 influences the efficiency of effectiveness of activities including coordination. • Linkage with Planners (DEFP) bi-weekly meetings

8. Linkage with Int’Org • Collaboration in Statistical advocacy • Capacity building • Statistical development

9. Preparation of Country report MDG • PDC responsibility • UN development partners assistance • CSP participation – data provider • No duplication of efforts.

10. Calendar of MDG data • Data is in indicator format • No metadata • No request for metadata • No capacity for building metadata • Focus on data requested.

11. Mechanism of reporting MDG data to Int’ Agencies • UN Questionnaires • Request passed by other Agencies to CSO • CSO not aware of who should receive data and at what timelines. • Data only submited when required.

12. MDG Data Report Problems • Discrepancies on Global reports • Methodologies used not known.

13. Conclusion • Coordination with stakeholders at national level is satisfactory. • Collaboration with development partners concentrates on • Advocacy • Statistical capacity building and • Statistical development - is satisfactory • Collaboration with Int’ Organisation for global report data is weak and results in discrepancies in data.

14. Recommendations • To include collaboration with NSO’s for global report data as part of collaboration with sub-regions. • Involve countries in the preparation of the global report. • Agree on one questionnaire for the production of data for the global report. • Agree on timelines for submission of data for the global report. • Agree on one office responsible for receiving Global report data (contact Office by sub-region)

15. Recommendations (Cont…) • Agree on a strategy for short term attachment of NSO representatives at the global offices for hands on capacity building on global report preparation • Global office to conduct a workshop on report preparation format/ methodology at sub-regional level