PARIS21/CARICOM Workshop on NSDS, Trinidad and Tobago, 27-29 July 2009 How can PARIS21 help? Presentation by PARIS21 Secretariat

PARIS21/CARICOM Workshop on NSDS, Trinidad and Tobago, 27-29 July 2009

How can PARIS21 help?

Presentation byPARIS21 Secretariat


PARIS21 Secretariat works through:

1. NSDS support2. Advocacy: developing and deploying

messages and materials internationally and in countries

3. Building and maintaining effective communications and cooperation, including strengthening in-country partnerships

4. Reporting on NSDS progress and donor support

5. Developing and sharing knowledge: guidelines, advice, web site, knowledge base

6. Satellite programmes: ADP, IHSN


1. NSDS support

• Shift support from NSDS design to NSDS implementation

• Intensify country-level work across range of PARIS21 activities: advocacy, partnership building events, meetings, etc.

• Facilitate funding requests, e.g. to TFSCB/SRF• Coherence, synergy with other programmes• Peer reviews and NSDS Essentials check list• Regionally based PARIS21 consultants


2. Advocacy – key messages• Better use of better national statistics leads to

better policies, better aid effectiveness and better development outcomes

• Good statistics improve transparency and accountability of Governments decisions

• Investment in statistics will pay for itself many times over by improving resource allocation

• Statistics are needed for “upstream” policy development; as well as for “downstream” processes such as monitoring and evaluation


Advocacy works!

• Increased recognition among policy makers of value of statistics, e.g., Hanoi MfDR (2007)

• Greater awareness among statisticians of new data challenges

• More strategic plans being produced and ready for implementation

• “Scaling Up” efforts to help countries fund their statistical capacity


Advocacy: some recent examples

• “Counting Down Poverty” booklet• “Why does country X need good statistics?” pamphlets• NSDS synthesis documents


Statistical Advocacy Resource Toolkit (START)

• Advocacy most relevant at country level• Help statisticians to advocate to policy makers

and funders, including donor country offices– Make best use of available materials– Tailored materials– National events

• Work with the wider partnership• Also advocacy to donor countries and

institutions


Specific NSDS and advocacy support in Caribbean

• Suriname: NSDS launch; 9 October.• Barbados: advocacy seminar during Statistics

Week; 13 October.• Jamaica: no details and date not confirmed.


3. Strengthening partnerships

• Strengthening in-country partnerships, through e.g. producer-user-donor meetings, NSDS launch events

• Providing countries with tools to improve partnerships, e.g. advice on country meetings

• Building and maintaining cooperation with regional partners; and with other international networks, e.g. HMN

• Funding participation in international and PARIS21 meetings, e.g. P21 Consortium meeting planned for November 2009


4. Reporting on NSDS progress and donor support

• Reporting on donor support for statistical capacity building (PRESS)

• Reporting on progress and status of NSDS and PRS processes; successes, constraints, lessons learnt

• Providing countries with tools to assist their own statistical reporting needs

• Collation and sharing of information on countries and agencies


5. Studies and knowledge development

• Guidance on NSDS and statistical development : sharing existing information and new studies on:– Statistics and M&E– Factors of Success in Reforming a Developing

Country National Statistical System: the Case of Tunisia

– Financing National Statistical Activities– The Quality Approach in Designing an NSDS– Reflection on how best can TA be provided to small

island countries


6. Satellite programmes

Accelerated Data Program (ADP)• Aims to make information available from existing

surveys: facilitating access and assessment of quality

International Household Survey Network (IHSN)• Aims to facilitate better use of existing data; and better

quality of future surveys, through a survey catalogue, Microdata Management Toolkit, dissemination policy guidelines; anonymisation tools and guidelines; question bank; quality assessment framework


In closing…

• Limited involvement so far of PARIS21 in the Caribbean compared with other regions, including Central America. But eagerness to expand collaboration.

• Your comments are invited on how we can best work together.

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PARIS21/CARICOM Workshop on NSDS, Trinidad and Tobago, 27-29 July 2009 How can PARIS21 help? Presentation by PARIS21 Secretariat