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This seminar focuses on reporting on statistical development, including reporting on activities, funding, and partners' support to statistics. It explores the objectives, outputs, and constraints of the C-PRESS and provides recommendations for effective reporting. The seminar also discusses the institutional framework and coordination mechanisms for reporting.
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PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center Reporting on statistical development Reporting on partners activities in country: CRESS or C-PRESS
Reporting on statistical development • Reporting part of legal responsibilities, nationally and internationally, accountability, advocacy • Reporting is an integral part of the monitoring and evaluation system of NSDS • It takes different forms and done by many countries PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
Reporting on statistical development • Partners report on country statistical development: • WB Bulletin Board, GDDS Country Site, UNSD Country Site • AfDB and UNECA for African countries • PARIS21: Guide on statistical development reporting, Guide pour un compte rendu sur le developpement de la statistique, draft. PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
What should include the reporting • Beyond indicators, annual report • Activities, audit, evaluation, statistical development • Including reporting on funding statistical development: public expenditure review • The role of technical and financing partners: the Country report on partners support to statistics: the CRESS or C-PRESS PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
The role of technical and financial partners : the CRESS or C-PRESS • Integrated on the overall partners role • Role • Statistical development policy advice • Funding including funding mechanisms • Technical assistance, and advice • Partners as users: Using statistics in their own aid policy design PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
CRESS or C-PRESS • Objectives • Institutional framework • Outputs • Methodology • Activities • Dissemination • Constraints • Global uses of C-PRESS Recommendations PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
A1 Overall objectives • To ensure that support to statistical development follows Paris Declaration principles and Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) among which • Ownership: support within (and only within) NSDS • Alignment: using local systems and avoiding project unit especially for surveys • Harmonization: to avoid duplication especially in supporting similar surveys • Results: agreeing on results measurement within NSDS M&E • Predictability: donors will provide 3-5 year forward information on their planned aid especially for the multi year National Survey Program • Conditionality – donors will switch from reliance on prescriptive conditions about how and when aid money is spent to conditions based on the developing country’s own development objectives. PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
A2 Objectives (from PRESS) • To learn what development partners are doing in statistical fields • To identify areas of statistics in need of more support (within NSS) • To raise the profile of statistics within the overall context of aid to the country • Design the most appropriate financing mechanism for the country, and increase the efficiency of support • Opportunity to establish (or strengthen) a coordinating sub group if it does not exist PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
B Institutional framework • Coordination of partners is the responsibility of the country • In some countries (especially fragile countries) donors have coordination mechanisms per se • Reporting should be the responsibility of the country (the coordinating body of the national statistical system) • In some cases or for the first report, partners could take the leading role PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
C1 Outputs • National Report (C-PRESS) and Recommendations • Mechanism of partners coordination strengthened or established • Directory of partners • (Directory on national statistical system) • Report and annexes available on web site • Input in Global PRESS PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
C 2 Information provided • Current statistical support (technical and financial) • Planned statistical support (technical and financial) • Statistical areas being supported • Period covered for each activity • Amount of money committed and disbursed • Mechanisms used PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
D Methodology • Following existing partners reporting frame in the country (if any) • Following PRESS methodology and nomenclatures related to statistical fields, which will allow aggregation • More detailed information adapted to country context, especially about NSS unit receiving the support PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
E Activities • Preparation - two possibilities: • The partners trough the coordinating body • The national council of statistics (through the executive secretariat or other unit) • Activities: • Identification of donors • Identification of NSS units • Questionnaire (adapting PRESS questionnaire) • Data collection, and processing • Report and recommendations • Establishing a permanent mechanism to produce the C-PRESS PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
F Dissemination • Presentation to the National Council of Statistics • Publish in the CSO web site, • Communicated to the PRESS team (PARIS21) PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
G Constraints • C-PRESS will face constraints identified in the PRESS process: • Variety of type of financing with different time frames and nomenclatures, difficulty to identify statistical components in wider project. • Size and number of actors of the national statistical system; • In addition: • Reporting on activities from partners not present in the country. PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
H Global uses of C-PRESS • Some pilot country comparisons show that PRESS underestimates the actual support. • In the future, with more and more country reports, aggregation will allow a more precise information on the global support to statistics development. • In the meantime, country reports will allow to measure PRESS coverage on the real support. PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
Recommendations • Countries: to develop their reporting system on statistical development within NSDS, to launch reviews on public expenditures on statistics including C-PRESS, to review and update international sites on reporting, and to disseminate the reports on their web sites. • Donors: to inform their country representatives to participate and support country efforts to prepare C-PRESS, and to provide relevant and disaggregated information on support to statistics. • PARIS21: to finalize and disseminate the Guide on reporting, and to prepare a Guide on C-PRESS including nomenclatures, and to report annually on C-PRESS PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center