PARIS21 Progress Report
Reporting Period: May – September 2008
PARIS21 Secretariat
PARIS21 Steering Committee meeting, 6 November 2008
Overall Tracking of Progress
• Six monthly reports on progress of Secretariat activities
and outputs. (this presentation)
• Annual reports on progress of the wider partnership towards
its outputs and outcomes. (presented later)
• Three-to-five yearly evaluations of progress towards the
partnership’s goal and purpose. (presented later)
PARIS21 Steering Committee meeting, 6 November 2008
A. Regional Programmes
• Participation in various international and regional meetings
• Support to NSDS processes or including statistical issues at
donor consultative groups (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte
d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Guinea, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali,
Nicaragua, and Tanzania)
• Support to Regional Events (SADC Statistics Committee, the
UNESCO seminar on education statistics, and a special NSDS
day for Caribbean countries)
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B. Advocacy
• Further development of Statistics Advocacy Toolkit (START)
• Assistance to the following countries on producing advocacy
booklets & NSDS synthesis documents:
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Cameroon
Comoros
Côte d’Ivoire
Ethiopia
Guinea
Mozambique
Niger
Senegal
Tanzania
Togo
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C. Partnership
• Organisation of a side event at the Accra HLF, launching of
SRF
• Partner Report on Support to Statistics (PRESS) 2008 Round –
to be presented separately
• Update / Printing of the Partnership Directory
• Facilitation of Developing Country Statisticians in Relevant
Events
• Preparations for 2009 Consortium meeting – to be presented
separately
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D. Reporting
• Update of country NSDS sheets & NSDS website – to be
presented separately
• Production of a toolkit on country reporting
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E. Studies & Knowledge Development
• Production of new guidance:
– Statistics and M&E
– Good Practices of an NSDS document
– Financing and costing NSDS implementation
– Integrating data archiving processes into NSDSs
– Overview of Evaluations of Large-Scale Statistical Capacity Building
Programmes
• Development of Study Programme
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F. Task Teams
• Virtual Statistical System – to be presented separately
• Sub-national Statistics
• Fragile States
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G. Management
• Recruitment of Secretariat Manager
• Organisation of Bureau / Steering Committee meetings
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H. Satellite Programmes
• International Household Survey Network (IHSN)
• Accelerated Data Program (ADP)
Both will be the subject of a separate presentation today.
PARIS21 Steering Committee meeting, 6 November 2008
Overall Tracking of Progress
• Six monthly reports on progress of Secretariat activities and
outputs.
• Annual reports on progress of the wider partnership
towards its outputs and outcomes.
• Three-to-five yearly evaluations of progress towards the
partnership’s goal and purpose. (presented later)
PARIS21 Steering Committee meeting, 6 November 2008
Tracking progress of PARIS21
Outputs and Outcomes
• Baseline study was presented to June 2008
Steering Committee meeting
• This is the first annual report
• Follows format of baseline study agreed by SC
• Paper shows separate presentation and
discussion of each of the four indicators
• Overview/ summary
PARIS21 Steering Committee meeting, 6 November 2008
1. Countries who have designed and
implemented NSDSs
• Number of IDA countries implementing NSDSs
increased from 22 to 37 since baseline in 2006
• Accordingly, number designing or awaiting
adoption of NSDSs decreased from 37 to 23
• 21 African countries now have NSDSs
(increased from 10) and 19 are either designing
or planning to do an NSDS
• NSDS progress report discusses issues for the
successful implementation of NSDSs
• Peer reviews will consider quality issues
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2. Technical cooperation flows
consistent with NSDSs
• PRESS baseline shows that annual
disbursements on statistical capacity building
have increased between 2006 and 2007
• And amounts to Africa have increased since
2004/05 (LRE)
• Amounts consistent with NSDSs are uncertain,
ranging from 2%-73% of commitment amounts,
depending on how flexible the criteria are set
• PRESS report is considered later in the agenda
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3. Improved capacities to produce,
analyze and use statistics
• World Bank’s Statistical Capacity Indicator
• Baseline IDA countries in 2006
• Three dimensions: statistical practice, data
collection, indicator availability
• Overall improvement in 2007, but fall in 2008:
– Caused by decline in the number of SS African
countries who have re-based their national accounts
and CPI in last ten years (statistical practice)
– And in the number of countries who have conducted
poverty surveys since 2004 (data collection)
– Indicator availability shows improvement in 2008
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4. Strengthened national data on
MDGs
• Countries with at least two data points for six
MDG indicators, excluding modelled data
• Since 2006, overall improvement from 56% to
71% in countries with at least two data points on:
– Net primary education enrolment and gender parity in
enrolments and, especially, in data on people living
with HIV (increase in 2007: MICS, DHS in 2006/2007)
– Countries with two data points for population using
improved drinking water sources (increase in 2008)
– But still only 35% of countries have two national data
points for $1 a day
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Summary
• Generally the trend is positive:
– IDA countries implementing NSDSs has increased
– Increase in TC for statistical capacity building
– Increase in countries with national data for MDGs
• But with some reservations:
– Stalling of Statistical Capacity Indicator
– Reduction in countries carrying out poverty surveys
• And some measurement issues:
– Quality and successful implementation of NSDSs
– Inadequate data on whether TC flows are consistent
with NSDSs
PARIS21 Steering Committee meeting, 6 November 2008