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Learn about Dominican Republic's experience with MDG monitoring, challenges faced, and actions taken to strengthen statistical data and reporting systems.
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MDG IN DOMINICAN REP. Leidy ZabalaManila,17-22 October 2011
Content • National Experience • Complementary Indicator
FirstNationalReport COPDES Presidential commission is responsible for preparing the country reports.
MeasuringMDGs RD: Situationsencountered • COPDES REPORT. 2004 AND 2008 Lack of coordination between institutions.Insufficient national sources.The indicators are not measured or published in a systematic way.Series with methodological differences in the sourcesLack of consistent time series.Shortage of baseline data.Considerable difficulties in the indicators: MDG 6 and MDG 7.
NSO Challenges and needsidentified Establish a national reference point for the consultation of indicators.Established as national MDG statistical sources.Integrate the data and ensure that the following national reports have a solid statistical database.
Boletins in Dom. Rep DASHBOARD, Internal chatter, Teachings of MDGs in BOOK FAIR
Data Base MDG in SINID http:sinid.one.gob.do
MonitoringReport 2010 MDG; National MDG technicalgroup Workshops consultative process with various institutions. The report was the result of a collective effort where prepared seminars to each MDG, and we had an opportunity of hearing the voice of the institutions and civil society organizations, academia, and multilateral agencies.
Actions • Improve interagency activities, and involve the active participation of key sectors in the indicators. • The NSO has been strengthening inter-agency work sector offices responsible for the production of statistics prioritized by current public policies such as environmental statistics and health, employment and education, other.
ComplementaryInd. • During the discussion nstitutions proposed complementary indicators that help in cases; when there is no information. When it is important to follow up in conjunction with the official indicator to help in the analysis while prepare report. When we have different sources and methodologies.
[i] For monitoring country poverty trends, indicators based on national poverty lines should be used, where available.
1 7 6 5 4 3 2 8 • Desarrollo, TICs 7 • Educación 4 • Mortalidad <5 3 • Pobreza 6 • VIH-SIDA 6 • Ambiente 1 • Mortalidad Materna 4 • Género 5 List of complementary indicators for MDG
Provincial profiles with the Census and Survey MonitoringMDGs at provincial levels AdvantageIdentification of spatial inequality. Support for the public decicions. Local development. ObstaclesPoor administrative records locally.National surveys without provincial representation.
Whathavewelearned? • The importance of strengthening coordination and communication between the National Statistical Office and the institutions responsible for each theme to support the MDGs with quality information. • Although we have made progress in monitoring of MDG indicators, we recognize the need to work for improvement and advance to face the challenges ahead.