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Cap Town, South Africa: 21-23 January 2012

STATCOM -III. Cap Town, South Africa: 21-23 January 2012. Strategy for the Harmonisation of Statistics in African (SHaSA). Statistics Division Economic Affairs Department Africa Union Commission (AUC). Content. Introduction Priority statistical requirements; SHaSA ;

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Cap Town, South Africa: 21-23 January 2012

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  1. STATCOM -III Cap Town, South Africa: 21-23 January 2012 • Strategy for the Harmonisation of Statistics in African (SHaSA) Statistics Division Economic Affairs Department Africa Union Commission (AUC)

  2. Content • Introduction • Priority statistical requirements; • SHaSA ; • Implementation mechanism ; • Mapping exercise; • Progress report; and • Recommendations

  3. Introduction • The process of socio-economic, political and cultural integration has always been a core concern of African leaders; • Since 1960 several initiatives and legal frameworks adopted at the highest level have succeeded to accelerate the integration process and to ensure its sons and daughters good quality, economic and social welfare; • For it to fully succeed and ensure that they achieve their objectives, it requires not only quality statistical information, but also harmonized data across time and space in all areas of African integration.

  4. Priority statistical requirements • Policy frameworks structuring the African integration process allows us to highlight three major dimensions of integration, namely: • Political integration and regional and continental governance, • Economic integration, and • Social and cultural integration

  5. Priority statistical areas of Priority statistical areas of integration

  6. What is SHaSA? • SHaSA: continental effort that directly supports the African integration agenda; • Objectives: • Identifying key priority areas of the African integration process that need to be underpinned by statistics; • Assessing the state of the ASS and various initiatives on statistical harmonisation; and • Elaborating a continental Strategy for the production and dissemination of quality harmonised statistics to inform African development and integration efforts • Jointly prepared by AUC, AfDB and ECA

  7. Strategic themes 3- Les difficultés

  8. The need for mapping! • Mapping onto SHaSA various ongoing initiatives, frameworks and strategies: • Provide a one-stop document of engagement with policy makers in fostering the statistical and integration agenda; and • Mapping existing statistical initiatives to support different integration processes; • Show how each initiative will contribute to the realization of SHaSA strategic objectives; • Mapping of: • Statistical governance • Frameworks and strategies • Statistical initiatives

  9. A map of statistical governance

  10. A map of statistical principles, frameworks, and strategies in Africa

  11. Integration areas and existing initiatives: Economic integration dimension

  12. Integration areas and existing initiatives: Social and cultural dimension

  13. Progress Report on SHaSA • Create African Group on Harmonisation of Statistics (AGSHa); • Membership • Chair: South Africa • 1st Vice Chair: Cote d’Ivoire • 2nd Vice Chair: Uganda • 1st Rapporteur: Egypt • 2nd Rapporteur: Cameroon • Secretariat: AUC • Support Partners: UNECA, AfDB & ACBF • REC partners • Member States: Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Egypt, Tunisia, South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique, Angola, Cameroon, and Congo

  14. Progress Report on SHaSA (cont’d) • Terms of Reference • Coordinate development and review of Implementation plan for SHaSA; • Coordinate development and review of Implementation framework for African Charter on Statistics • Coordinate Monitoring and Evaluation of Implementation of SHaSA and Charter • Peer review • Annual report to Committee of DGs and Ministers of finance, planning and economic development.

  15. Progress Report on SHaSA (cont’d)

  16. Progress Report on SHaSA (cont’d) • Report of variouspilarsSpecialist Groups • AGROST; • Labour and Informal Sector (minimum list of indicators, Action Plan and harmonized questionnaire on employment adopted and ); • National Account; • Infrastructure and knowledge programme; • Action Plan for the Second Decade of Education; • Trade statistics; • Agriculture; • CRVS; • Development indicators; • Etc.

  17. Recommendations • Specialised technical groups to align work programme to SHaSA strategy template ; • StatCom/CoDG to agree on lead countries for specialized technical groups ; • StatCom/CoDG to adopt Action Plan of SHaSA ; • StatCom/CoDG to consider progress report ; • Ministers Conference to endorse progress report on SHaSA • RECs to incorporate SHaSA in regional strategy; • Countries to incorporate SHaSA in NSDS; • AGSHa to monitor, report and evaluate the Implementation of SHaSA.

  18. Thank you for your kind attention! www.au.int

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