PARIS21 PROGRESS REPORT Reporting Period: October 2008 to April 2009

1. PARIS21 PROGRESS REPORTReporting Period: October 2008 to April 2009 PARIS21 Steering Committee meeting OECD Conference Centre 4 June 2009

2. Introduction • PARIS21 work in line with Steering Committee decisions: • International/Regional-level work • Advocacy • Partnership • Reporting • Studies • Country-level work • Support to NSDS design/implementation • Creation of national level partnerships of stakeholders • Development of locally adapted advocacy tools

3. Organisation of the Presentation • Framework for Tracking of Progress • Regional Programmes • Advocacy • Partnership • Reporting • Studies / Knowledge Development

4. Overall Tracking of Progress • Six-monthly reports on progress of Secretariat activities and outputs. (this presentation) • Annual reports on progress of the wider partnership towards its outputs and outcomes. (presented in November) • Three-to-five yearly evaluations of progress towards the partnership’s goal and purpose. (presented later)

5. Regional Programmes • Participation in various international and regional meetings • (UNSC, CCSA, UNESCWA Steering Committee, 33rd meeting of Arab League Statistical Committee, 4th African Symposium on the Development of Statistics, DAC-Arab Coordination Group, AHSOM9, ESCAP Committee on Statistics, Pacific Islands Forum Regional Statistics Workshop) • Support to NSDS processes or including statistical issues at donor consultative groups • (Burkina Faso, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Honduras, Tajikistan) • Organisation of Peer Reviews • (Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger) • Support to Regional Events • (Strategic Statistical Planning for Small Island Developing States, Maghreb workshop on NSDS, UNECA Regional workshop on NSDS implementation, CARICOM Advisory group and Steering Committee)

6. Advocacy • Advocacy film on Women & Statistics (with UNECA) • Production of a new leaflet on PARIS21 • Assistance to countries on producing advocacy booklets & NSDS synthesis documents: • Honduras • Mauritius

7. Partnership • Partner Report on Support to Statistics (PRESS) • 2008 Results disseminated • 2009 Round launched • Facilitation of Developing Country Statisticians in Relevant Events • (UNSC, 4th African Symposium on the Development of Statistics, ESCAP Committee on Statistics) • New PARIS21 website prepared • Preparations for 2009 Consortium meeting – to be presented separately

8. Reporting • Production of NSDS Status Report • Updated in May 2009 • Coverage extended to lower middle income countries • Of 117 countries, 88 are implementing or designing an NSDS (75%). • 18 countries do not have a strategy but are planning one (15%). • Only 11 countries neither have a strategy nor are planning one (10%).

9. Studies and Knowledge Development / Task Teams • Production of new guidance: • System reform: country case of Tunisia • Assessing quality and effectiveness of NSDSs guidelines • Costing of the National Statistical Systems • Development of new visual identity • Reflection Group on Fragile States: • Meeting held in Kigali from 22-24 May