UNSD – DFID project:
Country Directors’ Meeting
15 – 17 October 2014
Improving the collation, availability and dissemination of development
indicators (including the MDGs)
Implementation History
2010 - 2014
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
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
Project Timeline: 2012
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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
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
Project Timeline: 2014
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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
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
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.
Oct 2014 onwards…
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
Output targets
Identification of priority indicators
• 10 countries selected MDGs as starting point
for the project;
• 1 country started with a set of mainly nonMDGs (Cambodia)
• And 3 countries (Palestine & Viet Nam) wish to
expand beyond MDGs
Central data repository (platform)
• Data repository status as of October 2014;
Country Name Type
Burundi
DevInfo
Cambodia
DevInfo
Ghana
DevInfo
Lao PDR
DevInfo
Liberia
DevInfo
Morocco
Other
State of Palestine DevInfo
Rwanda
DevInfo
Thailand
StatXchange
Uganda
DevInfo
Viet Nam
DevInfo
Status
Online
Online
Online
Online
Online
Offline
Online
Online
Online
Online
Online
Linked
from
main
website
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
N/A
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Latest
Last
Hosted Version Data
Regist.
DSG
6/7
2011
Feb-14
Local 7
2012
Apr-14
Local 6
2011
Nov-13
Local 6/7
2012
Mar-14
DSG
7
2007
Nov-13
N/A
N/A
2010
Jan-14
Local 7
2012
Nov-13
DSG
7
2012
Jun-14
Local N/A
2013
Oct-14
Local 7
2012
Feb-14
Local 6/7
2013
Sep-14
Data exchange with line ministries
• National repository receiving data/ metadata from
health/ education ministries as at October 2014,
as follows:
Number
Burundi
Cambodia
Ghana
Lao PDR
Liberia
Morocco
State of Palestine
Rwanda
Thailand
Uganda
Viet Nam
Total
2
1
0
1
2
0
2
2
2
2
2
16
Target (2014):
18
+
New look
CountryData contains the number of MDGs as at
October 2014, as follows:
Outcome 2 MDGs on CountryData
Country
Burundi
Cambodia
Ghana
Lao PDR
Liberia
Morocco
State of Palestine
Rwanda
Thailand
Uganda
Viet Nam
Total
Actual
Number
52
27
10
55
17
12
30
49
43
24
36
"Potential"
Number
60
43
36
55
40
43
32
49
52
67
36
Percent
complete
87%
63%
28%
100%
43%
28%
94%
100%
83%
36%
100%
355
513
69%
Target (2014):
180
Metadata availability
CountryData contains the number of MDGs as at
October 2014, as follows:
Output 2.2 "Core" MDG with metadata on CountryData
Country
Burundi
Cambodia
Ghana
Lao PDR
Liberia
Morocco
State of Palestine
Rwanda
Thailand
Uganda
Viet Nam
Total
Number of
Number of
"Core" MDG "Core" MDG
reported to with metadata
CountryData in CountryData
18
16
12
12
3
0
19
13
9
0
11
0
10
10
18
16
14
14
10
4
15
15
139
Percentage of
“core” MDG
with metadata
reported to
CountryData
89
100
0
68
0
0
100
89
100
40
100
100
* Each countries contribution to the Total is weighted by 1/11 (i.e. 0.09)
62*
Target (2014):
91%
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).
Discrepancy analysis
“Core” discrepancy status as at October 2014:
Output 3.1 "Core" MDG discrepancy explained on CountryData
Country
Burundi
Cambodia
Ghana
Lao PDR
Liberia
Morocco
State of Palestine
Rwanda
Thailand
Uganda
Viet Nam
Total
Number of
"Core" MDG Number of
available in "Core" MDG
national
reported to
repository CountryData
18
18
12
12
16
3
19
19
16
9
15
11
11
10
18
18
17
14
20
10
15
15
177
Percentage of
Number of
“core” MDG
"Core" MDG reported to
with a
CountryData
discrepancy
and
explained in discrepancy
CountryData
explained
16
94
12
100
3
100
13
68
8
89
9
82
10
100
17
94
13
93
5
50
15
100
139
* Each countries contribution to the Total is weighted by 1/11 (i.e. 0.09)
121
88*
Target (2014):
91%
Thank you for your attention
Sources of further reference:
http://data.un.org/countrydata
http://data.un.org
http://unstats.un.org