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Guiding statistics. Legislation Leadership Planning frameworks. Legislation. Confidence building (law, power, cooperation, usefulness) Definition of official statistics Professional independence Organisation of statistical systems (SADCSS, decentralisation, coordination) . Legislation.
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Guiding statistics Legislation Leadership Planning frameworks
Legislation • Confidence building (law, power, cooperation, usefulness) • Definition of official statistics • Professional independence • Organisation of statistical systems (SADCSS, decentralisation, coordination)
Legislation Does it matter?
Leadership • Style: great personality (coach) – systematic management • The link between resources and objectives • Proactive process to change behaviour • Traditional management?
Other guiding elements • Professionalism • Tradition • International and regional rules and best practices
Planning frameworks Types: • Master plan (long-term) • Policies (guiding values) • Business plan, strategic plan, statistical programs, Five years plans (medium-term) • Activity plans • Total Quality Management (TQM)
Planning frameworks • Project orientation (donor driven?) • Program orientation • Process orientation (general or specific)
Planning frameworks • Is planning paying back? • Planning and implementation – success or frustration? • Documents or processes? • Are statistics almost universal? • The role of the users? • Regular users assessments or ad hoc?
Planning frameworks If fairly universal statistical needs, but totally different resources – international guidelines what to do with… 1-10 professionals 11-20 professionals ….. For NSI and donors
Panning frameworks Central place of users or Central place of use (value adding) Including SADC use