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First Steering Committee Meeting of the SADC Development Account Project

This project aims to enhance statistical capacity in SADC region for achieving MDGs by ECA's strategic contributions. It includes repositioning ECA to prioritize statistics and offers various areas of support. Activities range from promoting statistical activities and advocating for capacity building to establishing data hubs and providing technical assistance to African countries.

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First Steering Committee Meeting of the SADC Development Account Project

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  1. Strengthening Statistical Capacity in support of progress towards the internationally agreed development goals in the SADC region: ECA’s Potential Contribution United Nations Economic Commission for Africa First Steering Committee Meeting of the SADC Development Account Project 14-16 July 2006, Durban, South Africa

  2. Outline • ECA Repositioning • Elements of Programme • Potential Areas of Contribution • The Way Forward

  3. Background • The project is aimed at strengthening statistical capacity-building in support of the MDGs in the region of the SADC • Period: 4 years (2006-2009) • Executing agency: UNSD/DESA • Co-operating Agencies: • SADC Secretariat • Division of Sustainable Development/DESA • UNECA • This development account is timely in terms of the revamping of statistical activities at ECA

  4. ECA Repositioning • The new Executive Secretary has launched the process of repositioning ECA to better serve Africa • The proposed repositioned ECA structure: • Recognizes the importance of statistics as a cross-cutting issue • Includes a new entity with financial and administrative autonomy: STATISTICS AND STATISTICAL CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT • The new entity will be provided with adequate financial and human resources staff

  5. Potential Areas of Contribution • In the framework of the SADC development account project, the ECA should undertake the following activities

  6. Elements of Programme of the CSSC • Promotion, coordination of, and advocacy for statistical activities in Africa and monitoring progress of statistical capacity building • Building a data hub at ECA for the provision of development data on Africa • Implementing the 1993 System of National Accounts (SNA) • Supporting statistical training programmes • Establishing a regional programme for population and housing censuses • Providing technical assistance to African countries

  7. Potential Areas of Contribution (1) • Promotion, coordination of, and advocacy for statistical activities in Africa and monitoring progress of statistical capacity building • Activities: • To promote the RRSF among SADC countries • To support countries in the design and implementation of their NSDS (organization, legislative framework) • To prepare specific advocacy material for SADC countries for the celebration of the African Statistics Day • Potential partnership: • PARIS21 on advocacy • ADB

  8. Potential Areas of Contribution (2) • Building a data hub at ECA for the provision of development data on Africa • Activities: • facilitate storage and dissemination of statistical information • Design and establish Websites for SADSC NSOs that do not have one to facilitate dissemination of data and increase visibility • Establishing a SADC database on household surveys data to feed the ECA regional household surveys database • Potential partnership: • AFRISTAT for the Websites (best practice) • World Bank (Household Surveys database) • ECE (macro time series database) • IMF (GDDS, Metadata)

  9. Potential Areas of Contribution (3) • Implementing the 1993 System of National Accounts (SNA) • Activities: • To prepare a substantive assessment of the implementation status of the 1993 SNA in SADC countries • To identify impeding factors • To organise a workshop for experts to potentially address impeding factors • To produce a manual on best practices in this region based on experts’ workshop • Potential partnership: • ADB (ICP project) • IMF-EAST AFRITAC (Manuel SNA for SADC countries) • Afristat

  10. Potential Areas of Contribution (4) • Establishing a regional programme for population and housing censuses • Activities: • During the Census workshop, to organize workgroups on: • Effective use of IT and GIS for census operations • Using the census for measuring new and emerging priority issues • Planning and financing the next censuses • Analysis, dissemination and utilization of census data • Identify resources and expertise to be shared, e.g. IT expertise, exchange of professionals, training materials • Potential partnership: • UNFPA, UNFPA-CST • ICP, US Bureau of Census

  11. Potential Areas of Contribution (5) • Providing technical assistance to African countries • Activities: • Advisory services in the field of collection and dissemination of statistics and databases • Advisory services in organization and management of NSOS (ECA has a regional adviser in the area) • Advisory services in household surveys • Potential partnership: • ECA should also contribute in terms of substance and organizational matters in other workshops and activities under this project

  12. Other initiatives • Development Account on Gender disaggregated data

  13. Thank you!

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