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Improving Development Indicators Collation & Availability

This project aims to improve the collation, availability, and dissemination of development indicators, including the MDGs. Implementation history from 2010-2014.

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Improving Development Indicators Collation & Availability

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  1. UNSD – DFID project: Country Directors’ Meeting 15 – 17 October 2014 Improving the collation, availability and dissemination of development indicators (including the MDGs)

  2. Implementation History2010 - 2014

  3. Project Timeline: 2010 • Project meeting, Steering Committee meeting (February) • Kick-off meetings for the Asian region (March) and African region (October) • Assessment missions in Cambodia, Kenya, Thailand • MoU signed with Cambodia, implementation starts • Procurement completed for implementation in Cambodia • Development of prototype data exchange system and CountryData web site

  4. Project Timeline: 2011 • Project meeting (February) • Assessment missions in remaining countries • First version of data exchange system, test data exchange with Cambodia • Continue development of SDMX Registry and related modules for DevInfo v6 • Design, development, testing of data exchange platform and CountryData Web site • CountryData goes live • Implementation starts in Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda

  5. Project Timeline: 2012 • Project meeting (February) • Kenya, Tanzania replaced with Ghana, Palestine • Ongoing development, refinement of CountryData • Data exchange with 9 countries; 10 repositories online • MoUs in place in 7 countries • 3 national metadata workshops conducted • Workshop on advanced XML Technologies • Training, installation missions • Major overhaul of DevInfo • DevInfo v7 released • SDMX Registry redesigned • SDMX Mapping Tool developed for the project

  6. Project Timeline: 2013 • Project meeting, Steering Committee meeting (February) • 4 global workshops (Mar, Jul, Nov), 1 int’l workshop on advanced IT technologies (Oct) • 1 UNSD-ESCWA joint international workshop • 2 national metadata workshops • 2 country study visits • Data exchange with all 11 countries incl customized solutions in Thailand, Morocco • Metadata exchange with 7 countries • Ongoing refinement of DevInfo SDMX Registry and Mapping Tool • Ongoing development of CountryData

  7. Project Timeline: 2014 • Project extended until January 2015 • Project meeting, Steering Committee meeting (Mar) • CountryData & UNdata SDMX API goes live • CountryData integrated with MDG Labs, new version goes live • Final global workshop (Apr) • Ongoing work on metadata in Ghana, Uganda, Liberia, Morocco, other countries • Work on SDMX visualizations

  8. Summary of activities As at 1 October 2014, the following activities are completed: • 7 countries with MoUs (5 active/ ongoing) • 4 international workshops (completed) • 12 SDMX installation/ training missions (1 in planning) • 16 DSG consultancy missions (5 jointly with UNSD) • 6 Metadata national workshops conducted • 4 countries made study visits • 2 launch events organised by country

  9. Summary of outputs As at 1 October 2014, the following outputs are completed: • All project countries feature in CountryData; • Over 400 indicators, almost 800 time series and over 4,500 observations exchanged; • 7 countries now share metadata, 4 drafts still ‘pending’; • Full MDG discrepancy analysis completed for Burundi, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Palestine, Rwanda, Thailand and Viet Nam.

  10. Oct 2014 onwards…

  11. Project completion timeline • Project evaluation begins: September 2014 • Directors’ Meeting to discuss implementation and future ideas: 15 – 17 October 2014 • MoU and all project activities to end: 31 October 2014 (by 30 November on an exceptional basis) • Evaluation visits to Ghana (Nov), Rwanda/ Uganda (Nov/Dec), Lao PDR/ Cambodia/ Thailand (Dec) + Skype interviews/ SurveyMonkey questionnaire • Official end dateline: 31 January 2015 • 46th Statistical Commission (3 – 6 March 2015): Presentation of Evaluation Findings

  12. Output targets

  13. Identification of priority indicators • 10 countries selected MDGs as starting point for the project; • 1 country started with a set of mainly non-MDGs (Cambodia) • And 3 countries (Palestine & Viet Nam) wish to expand beyond MDGs

  14. Central data repository (platform) • Data repository status as of October 2014;

  15. Data exchange with line ministries • National repository receiving data/ metadata from health/ education ministries as at October 2014, as follows: Target (2014): 18

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  17. New look

  18. CountryData contains the number of MDGs as at October 2014, as follows: Target (2014): 180

  19. Metadata availability CountryData contains the number of MDGs as at October 2014, as follows: Target (2014): 91%

  20. Metadata availability • 8 countries intend to share metadata through SDMX registry, 3 do fully (Burundi, Cambodia and Palestine), 2 partially (Thailand & Uganda) and 1 shared a draft handbook (Ghana) • Of the 3 who will share via a handbook, only 1 has a draft complete (Lao PDR).

  21. Discrepancy analysis “Core” discrepancy status as at October 2014: Target (2014): 91%

  22. Thank you for your attention Sources of further reference: http://data.un.org/countrydata http://data.un.org http://unstats.un.org

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