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This progress report covers activities such as regional programs, advocacy, partnership efforts, reporting, studies & knowledge development, task teams, management, and satellite programs. It reviews the development of statistics, support provided to countries, and management initiatives. It also tracks progress in implementing National Strategies for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) and strengthening statistical capacities at the national and international levels. The report presents findings on technical cooperation, improved statistical capacities, and enhanced data collection efforts to support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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PARIS21 Progress Report Reporting Period: May – September 2008 PARIS21 Secretariat
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 later) • Three-to-five yearly evaluations of progress towards the partnership’s goal and purpose. (presented later)
A. Regional Programmes • Participation in various international and regional meetings • Support to NSDS processes or including statistical issues at donor consultative groups (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Guinea, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, Nicaragua, and Tanzania) • Support to Regional Events (SADC Statistics Committee, the UNESCO seminar on education statistics, and a special NSDS day for Caribbean countries)
B. Advocacy • Further development of Statistics Advocacy Toolkit (START) • Assistance to the following countries on producing advocacy booklets & NSDS synthesis documents: • Cameroon • Comoros • Côte d’Ivoire • Ethiopia • Guinea • Mozambique • Niger • Senegal • Tanzania • Togo
C. Partnership • Organisation of a side event at the Accra HLF, launching of SRF • Partner Report on Support to Statistics (PRESS) 2008 Round – to be presented separately • Update / Printing of the Partnership Directory • Facilitation of Developing Country Statisticians in Relevant Events • Preparations for 2009 Consortium meeting – to be presented separately
D. Reporting • Update of country NSDS sheets & NSDS website – to be presented separately • Production of a toolkit on country reporting
E. Studies & Knowledge Development • Production of new guidance: • Statistics and M&E • Good Practices of an NSDS document • Financing and costing NSDS implementation • Integrating data archiving processes into NSDSs • Overview of Evaluations of Large-Scale Statistical Capacity Building Programmes • Development of Study Programme
F. Task Teams • Virtual Statistical System – to be presented separately • Sub-national Statistics • Fragile States
G. Management • Recruitment of Secretariat Manager • Organisation of Bureau / Steering Committee meetings
H. Satellite Programmes • International Household Survey Network (IHSN) • Accelerated Data Program (ADP) Both will be the subject of a separate presentation today.
Overall Tracking of Progress • Six monthly reports on progress of Secretariat activities and outputs. • Annual reports on progress of the wider partnership towards its outputs and outcomes. • Three-to-five yearly evaluations of progress towards the partnership’s goal and purpose. (presented later)
Tracking progress of PARIS21 Outputs and Outcomes • Baseline study was presented to June 2008 Steering Committee meeting • This is the first annual report • Follows format of baseline study agreed by SC • Paper shows separate presentation and discussion of each of the four indicators • Overview/ summary
1. Countries who have designed and implemented NSDSs • Number of IDA countries implementing NSDSs increased from 22 to 37 since baseline in 2006 • Accordingly, number designing or awaiting adoption of NSDSs decreased from 37 to 23 • 21 African countries now have NSDSs (increased from 10) and 19 are either designing or planning to do an NSDS • NSDS progress report discusses issues for the successful implementation of NSDSs • Peer reviews will consider quality issues
2. Technical cooperation flows consistent with NSDSs • PRESS baseline shows that annual disbursements on statistical capacity building have increased between 2006 and 2007 • And amounts to Africa have increased since 2004/05 (LRE) • Amounts consistent with NSDSs are uncertain, ranging from 2%-73% of commitment amounts, depending on how flexible the criteria are set • PRESS report is considered later in the agenda
3. Improved capacities to produce, analyze and use statistics • World Bank’s Statistical Capacity Indicator • Baseline IDA countries in 2006 • Three dimensions: statistical practice, data collection, indicator availability • Overall improvement in 2007, but fall in 2008: • Caused by decline in the number of SS African countries who have re-based their national accounts and CPI in last ten years (statistical practice) • And in the number of countries who have conducted poverty surveys since 2004 (data collection) • Indicator availability shows improvement in 2008
4. Strengthened national data on MDGs • Countries with at least two data points for six MDG indicators, excluding modelled data • Since 2006, overall improvement from 56% to 71% in countries with at least two data points on: • Net primary education enrolment and gender parity in enrolments and, especially, in data on people living with HIV (increase in 2007: MICS, DHS in 2006/2007) • Countries with two data points for population using improved drinking water sources (increase in 2008) • But still only 35% of countries have two national data points for $1 a day
Summary • Generally the trend is positive: • IDA countries implementing NSDSs has increased • Increase in TC for statistical capacity building • Increase in countries with national data for MDGs • But with some reservations: • Stalling of Statistical Capacity Indicator • Reduction in countries carrying out poverty surveys • And some measurement issues: • Quality and successful implementation of NSDSs • Inadequate data on whether TC flows are consistent with NSDSs