M. MubilaAfrican Development Bank

ICP-Africa objectives

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ICP-Africa Aims:

to strengthen Countries in the collection of statistical data for generating PPPs for cross-country economic comparisons

to meet the urgent demand for reliable and timely data to support the monitoring of progress on the MDGs., PRSs, the NEPAD

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ICP-Africa Country Specific Elementsestablishing the greatest possible

synergy between the ICP data collection efforts and routine national statistical programs

strengthening institutional capacity through technical and managerial training and assistance

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ICP-Africa Country Specific Elementsproviding financial, technical and

material assistance, including hardware and software for data collection, verification, and processing,

promoting the use of data for policy making and monitoring of progress.

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ICP-Africa: Sub-regional Level

to assist the SROs in building up their internal capabilities for planning, executing and monitoring surveys in order to help countries.

Four (4) SROs - AFRISTAT, COMESA, ECOWAS and SADC – have been selected to assist NSOs in ICP activities.

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ICP-Africa: Participating Countries48 out of 53 countries are confirmed

participants47 countries have started data

collection5 countries not participating (Algeria,

Eritrea, Libya, Somalia and Seychelles)

One country (Ethiopia) preparing

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ICP Partners

ADB (staff & consultants)SROs: AFRISTAT, COMESA,

ECOWAS, SADCAll participating countriesInternational partners: The

World Bank; INSEE-France; ONS-UK; Others

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AFRISTAT

SADC

COMESA

ECOWAS

ADB

INSEE-France ONS-UK

World BankOthers

CountriesCountries

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Libya

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Main activities (Price statistics)

1. Launching nationwide price collection

2. Collecting internationally comparable data

3. Enhancing international exchange of experiences

4. Integration of CPI & ICPICP

Afr

ica:

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Main activities (National accounts and oth.)

1. Assist countries to implement SNA93

2. Disaggregating GDP expenditures

3. Comparing expenditure data internationally

4. Enhancing international comparability of data

5. GDP breakdown methodology - seminar in September 2005

ICP

Afr

ica:

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Main Activities (Capacity Building)

Supporting countries to design NSDS

Support the implementation of NSDS

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Status of Implementation

Countries have started submitting price data

Sub-regional Workshops on Data Quality Control have been organised

Addis Ababa Workshop to brief consultants for NSDS

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The way forward

Long term perspective:

ICP as integrated part of national statistical work-programme

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Sources of Finance for ICP-Africa (2004-2007)

ADB: $28.17 million The World Bank DFID ACBF Norad-Norway Indian Trust Fund

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