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Building Statistical Capacity to Monitor Development
Francesca PerucciFrancesca PerucciUnited Nations Statistics DivisionUnited Nations Statistics Division
UNSD-SADC Statistics ProjectUNSD-SADC Statistics ProjectFirst Meeting of the Steering Committee First Meeting of the Steering Committee
Durban, 14-16 July 2006Durban, 14-16 July 2006
Monitoring development goals and the impact on statistical systems
Monitoring requirements in countries have increased the demand for official statistics
National and international reports have increased the visibility of official statistics
Monitoring reports are important advocacy tool for strengthening statistical capacity and improving statistics
Monitoring requirements have called the attention to shortcomings in the availability of data
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Countries with +20 indicators* (%)
Africa 81
Northern Africa 80 Sub-Saharan Africa 81All other developing regions 77
World 78
How many countries can produce MDG indicators?
Countries in Africa with at least 2 data points for any given indicator
* Based on data produced by countries
Countries with +20 indicators* (%)
Africa 23
Northern Africa 40 Sub-Saharan Africa 21Other developing regions 65
World 44
How often are the necessary data produced?
Countries in Africa with at least 3 data points for any given indicator
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Assessment of data availability
Country data in Africa are available for most of the indicators but less frequently than elsewhere
Country data are less recent
Lack of data especially in some crucial areas such as employment
Implications for capacity building Results of the assessment were presented at various meetings
with NSOs (ex: Rome, Oct. 2005, Cape Verde, Dec. 2005)
Results were circulated to national statistical offices of all member states
Discussion on the results and the implications for countries’ capacity took place at the Statistical Commission in March 2006
A resolution was proposed by countries for its adoption at the current session of ECOSOC –being held in Geneva this month
Building statistical capacityThe challenge
Ensuring that the necessary statistics and indicators be made available in the short term to allow countries to monitor progress and inform the necessary policies
Developing sustainable statistical systems in countries
Ensuring that indicators be available in the short-term at the international level to promote and inform the political debate
Building statistical capacityThe way forward
Strengthening the network of national statisticians in the region and the dialogue across regions
Stepping up the discussion to the political level (from the region to the UN Stat Commission to ECOSOC and GA)
Bring the demand for technical and financial assistance to donors within a consistent framework (bilateral and multilateral donors should improve their coordination mechanisms)
The Development Account is an integral part of the technical cooperation activities of the economic and social entities of the United Nations under the umbrella of the Executive Executive Committee for Economic for Economic Committee for Economic for Economic and Social Affairs (EC-ESA)and Social Affairs (EC-ESA)
The Development Account
• Development Account projects aim at capacity-capacity-building building through sub-regional, regional and interregional economic and technical cooperation among developing countries
• The projects serve as a natural extension to the normative and policy activities of the implementing agencies in their follow-up the United Nations follow-up the United Nations conferences and summits in economic and social conferences and summits in economic and social affairsaffairs. Projects are executed by members of EC-ESA.
• The Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs acts as Programme Manager of the Account. Programme Manager of the Account.
The Development Account
The approachThe General Assembly established that
Development Account projects should:• demonstrably strengthen national development
capacity ensuring project sustainabilityproject sustainability• use information and communications information and communications
technologytechnology and networking of expertisenetworking of expertise• use partnershipspartnerships and South-South South-South
cooperationcooperation.
The Development Account
• Project sustainability is ensured through consistent and proactive involvement of involvement of stakeholdersstakeholders in project design and implementation.
• Project sustainability can also be promoted through the co-financing of pilot activities by co-financing of pilot activities by partners. partners.
Project sustainability
• Information and communications technologies (ICT) are at the core of many Development Account projects because of their multiplier potential and adaptabilitymultiplier potential and adaptability to development activities beyond the project scope.
Information and Communications Technologies
• Development Account projects emphasize the importance of building knowledge networksbuilding knowledge networks— supported by information and communications technologies—which allow countries directly to access information on good practices.
• Capacity-building through networking of local networking of local expertise offers collaborative opportunitiesexpertise offers collaborative opportunities, often beyond those originally envisioned by project designers.
• Networks can create additional regional and create additional regional and interregional linksinterregional links conducive to capacity-building in specific fields, thus leading to requests for further networking and technical assistance.
Networking
• The Development Account supports the creation and strengthening of development partnerships between development partnerships between the United Nations and outside institutionsthe United Nations and outside institutions.
• 80 per cent of projects are executed by more than one executed by more than one entityentity and often in collaboration with other UN entities. Many projects engage regional organizations and local, regional, and/or international non-governmental organizations.
• All projects emphasize exchange of experience and exchange of experience and cooperation activities among developing countries cooperation activities among developing countries within and outside the region
Partnership and South-South Cooperation
• To date, 94 projects have been approved by the To date, 94 projects have been approved by the General Assembly out of regular budget funds General Assembly out of regular budget funds for a total amount of $67 millionfor a total amount of $67 million
Development Account Projects
Development Account Projects in Statistics in Africa
Title Entity Region Theme
06/ 07T: Strengthening statistical capacity in support of progress
towards the internationally agreed development goals in the Southern African Development
Community region DESA and
ECA Africa Statistics
06/ 07J : Strengthening African statistical systems to generate gender-disaggregated data to suppport policies to promote
gender equality and empowerment of women
ECA with DESA and
ESCAP Africa
Advancement of women and
statistics
06/ 07R: Collection and analysis of data and trends on drugs, crime,
and victimization in Africa
UNODC with ECA and
DESA Africa
Social development, social integration
and statistics
04/ 05V: Strengthening statistical capacity-building in support of the
Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) in the region of the
Economic Community of West African States
DESA, ECWA and ECA Africa Statistics
Development Account Projects in Statistics Title Entity Region Theme
06/ 07A: I nterregional cooperation on the measurement
of the informal sector and informal employment
ESCAP with ECLAC,
ESCWA and DESA Global
Macroeconomics, finance, social
development, social integration and
statistics
06/ 07B: I nterregional cooperation to strengthen social inclusion, gender equality and
health promotion in the Millennium Development Goal
process ESCAP Global
Advancement of women and
statistics
06/07F: Strengthening the statistical capacity of Central Asian countries to
monitor progress towards the Millennium Development Goals
ECE with DESA and
ESCAP Asia Statistics
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