African Project Implementation Plan: Conclusions and Recommendations

1. Conclusions and Recommendations andProject Implementation Plan of the AGNA Meeting on the Implementation of the 2008 SNA AfDB, AUC, ECA 2nd CSC Meeting for the African Project on the Implementation of the 2008 SNA UNCC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2-4 April 2014

2. Conclusions and Recommendations

3. Conclusions and Recommendations On the African Project on the Implementation of the 2008 SNA 1. The participants agreed to take joint ownership of the African Project on the 2008 SNA, which is a common African Project and every member of the AGNA has a role to play. The stakeholders of the Project include Member States, RECs, Afristat, Pan-African institutions, and concerned regional and international organizations and development partners; 2. The Project Implementation Plan (PIP) consolidating concrete actions and activities proposed voluntarily by various stakeholders will be trailed as a coordination mechanism and a useful framework for monitoring, evaluation, and reporting on the progress of the Project; 3. The International Monetary Fund, UNSD, and the World Bank will continue to provide and coordinate technical assistance and advocacy activities in support of the African Project on the Implementation of the 2008 SNA using their existing mechanisms; 4. UNSD provides Member States the requisite tools, in English and French, to assess statistical systems, identify gaps, explore opportunities, and develop national strategies;

4. Conclusions and Recommendations (cont’d) On Country Plans and Actions (Pillar I) 5. Member States take the lead by: • Developing country plans for implementation of the 2008 SNA, in line with national and African strategies; • Taking concrete steps and actions to implement the country plans; and • Requesting technical assistance and support when encountering difficulties;

5. Conclusions and Recommendations (cont’d) On Technical Assistance (Pillar II) 6. AfDB takes the lead by: • Providing technical assistance to Member States lagging behind in the implementation of the 1993 SNA; • Conducting a series of technical assistance missions and training workshops on quarterly accounts as listed in the PIP; and • Establishing country twinning with the aim of fostering South-South cooperation;  7. AUC provides support for Member States to adopt and apply modern and country-adapted IT Tools by: • Producing a report to assess the various IT tools used for the compilation of national accounts in Africa; • Organizing regional workshops on ERETES for various levels of users in collaboration with INSEE and Eurostat; and • Providing technical support to interested Member States for adopting ERETES software;

6. Conclusions and Recommendations (cont’d) On Technical Assistance (Pillar II) 8. Bilateral and multilateral development partners develop and scale up technical assistance programs to support African countries, as resource permit, in line with the needs expressed by countries to comply with the African Project on the Implementation of the 2008 SNA;

7. Conclusions and Recommendations (cont’d) On Institutional Strengthening (Pillar III) 9. RECs and Afristat support National Statistics Offices of Member States in their respective jurisdiction to establish or strengthen governance and coordination structures for national accounts statistics at national level by: • Conducting technical assistance missions and organizing statistical users and producers workshops to support Member States for institutional strengthening; • Establishing and strengthening the regional and sub regional governance and coordination structures for the implementation of the African Project; 10. Member States take requisite actions to strengthen and/or establish governance and coordination structures for national accounts at the national level; and 11. AfDB takes requisite actions to establish the African Network of National Accountants (ANNA);

8. Conclusions and Recommendations (cont’d) On Compiling Technical Documents (Pillar IV) 12. UNECA takes the lead by: • Establishing a virtual “community of practice” to gather country experts together for sharing and exchanging African country experiences and practice; • Preparing the first and second drafts of the Guidebook on Use of Administrative Data for Compiling National Accounts incorporating international standards and recommendations with African country experiences and practice; and • Organizing expert group meetings for reviewing and validating the draft Guidebook;

9. Conclusions and Recommendations (cont’d) On Advocacy Campaigns (Pillar V) 13. AUC takes the lead to organize advocacy campaigns in support of national statistical systems at continental, regional, and national levels by: • Carrying out high level advocacy missions to Member States, sub-regional, regional, and continental organizations with the aim of delivering target messages, providing project updates, and improving resource mobilization. The country missions will target governments, parliaments, civil society, and private sector, and • Addressing and reporting the importance and progress of the African Project on the 2008 SNA to the conferences of the Heads of the State and the Ministers; 14. UNECA develops advocacy materials and tools including the publication of reports, newsletters, flyers, brochures, and a website in pace with AUC activities;

10. Conclusions and Recommendations (cont’d) On Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting (Pillar VI) 15. The Secretariat of the Project takes the lead by: • Producing and disseminating monitoring and evaluation reports on the implementation of the African Project on the 2008 SNA on a biannual basis through collecting information from all stakeholders for the CSC, AGNA, StatCom-Africa, and Committee of Directors-General (CoDGs) meetings, and • Further strengthening the Secretariat; 16. Pan-African Institutions, RECs, Afristat, Member States, and concerned international and regional organizations and development partners on a biannual basis provide the requisite information and progress reports to the Secretariat, in line with the agreed PIP framework.

11. PIPAfrican Project on the Implementation of the 2008 SNA (USDx1000)

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