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1 - An Historical Perspective2 - Characteristics of the NSS3 - The SNDS 4 -The Users' Place5 - The Point of View of National Development Institutions6 - The Post-2015 MGDs 7 – The Main Lessons

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• Independence and the triumph of planning.• Structural adjustment.• Construction of a new consensus 1999-2000.

The PRSPs and the MDGs.• Emergence of new requests for the NSS.

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• Widely varying means.• Strong dependence on donors for financing of

surveys and housing surveys.• Stagnating or regressing resources since 2010.

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• Three main constraints: (i) insufficiency of equipment and operating means; (ii) little or no employee motivation; (iii) lack of qualified human resources.

• Communication: Websites.• National Accounting.

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• The NSDS: a common promotional instrument of the NSS.

• Low performance rates.• Statistics recognised as a priority. Formal

partnerships with development structures.• No financial programming in five out of the

ten countries.

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• Systematically excluded from NSDS preparation;

• Voluntary initiatives with the press in several countries;

• Little involvement by civil society and the private sector.

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• All the countries are committed to medium- term development strategies.

• All the countries have adopted target development figures and prepared indicators for M/E.

• Close or less close cooperation with the NSS.• Annual M/E reports on development strategy

requiring data.

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• Uncertain availability of indicators.• Insufficiently satisfactory expectations of the

NSS for timely data production.• Strong collaboration for the M/E.• Few M/E Websites.

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• A very demanding timetable for the statistical and development institutions

• Little internal mobilisation for the timetable in the NSIs

• Process of reflection undertaken by decision-makers in all countries

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1 - Acknowledgement of the priority of statistics in development: important advances, but a limited impact

2 – An NSI priority: qualitative strengthening of human resources

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3- Persistence of limited user role in the NSS,

4- Necessity to improve the NSS image.

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