SECRETARIAT WORK PROGRAMME

2009

PARIS21 Steering Committee meeting

OECD Conference Centre

6 November 2008

INTRODUCTION

Overall programme 2009-2010

Approved during the former SC in June 2008

Proposed work programme 2009:

UpdatedTaking into account priorities and new orientations

OUTLINE OF 2009 WORK PROGRAMME (1)

A- COUNTRY ACTIVITIES

NSDS implementation1. Peer reviews2. Advocacy3. Statistical reporting

B- REGIONAL OR SPECIFIC PROGRAMMES

1. Arab States2. Island states3. Fragile States (DECISION 3) (ref. following presentation)

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OUTLINE OF 2009 WORK PROGRAMME (2)

C -GLOBAL REPORTING, STUDIES, TASK TEAMS

1. Ensuring reporting on NSDS progress2. Donor’s reporting: PRESS (ref. morning presentation)3. Launching three new studies

D- MANAGEMENT

PARIS21 evaluation (DECISION 2)

PARIS21 Consortium (ref. following presentation)FundingNext Steering Committee (DECISION 5)

A Country activities (1)

Facilitating the implementation (or design) of NSDS

• Focus on less-developed countries in Africa (fragile states)• Launching new activities in Asia and Caribbean• Strengthening the overall statistical system (support to National Statistical

Councils)• Encouraging national partnerships for funding statistics (ex: Mali)• Target : at least 15 new countries covered

Consolidating the Peer Review approach

• Anglophone Africa: three sets of countries• Francophone Africa: a first set of countries (Niger, Burkina Faso)

A Country activities (2)

Providing ad-hoc support on advocacy

• Focus on less-developed countries in Africa• Enlarging support to Asia, Latin America and Caribbean• Specific grant on advocacy in 6 countries• On the basis of the Advocacy Toolkit• Target of 25 countries for 2009

Encouraging statistical reporting at national level

• Country reporting guidelines available• Support to National Councils of Statistics (portals on statistical systems)• Target of 2 countries for 2009

B Regional activities (1)

Arab States

• Maghreb workshop in December 2008• 4th Arab Forum in Cairo May 2009

Island states

Specific issue of statistical capacity building in islands and small states• Workshop Caribbean-Pacific as side meeting of UNSC 2009?• NSDS workshop for the Caribbean June 2009• High-level policy makers and statisticians seminar in the Caribbean

C Global reporting, studies and task-teams

Reporting• Regular production of NSDS progress reporting tables• Donor’s reporting: PRESS (ref. seminar and morning presentations)

Studies• Statistics and governance• HR and training policies in the framework of NSDS• Strategic management textbook• Finalizing the on-going studies

Task-Teams• VSS (presentation to follow)• Additional guidance on Intersect?• Training in Africa: under the umbrella of ACBF• Sub-national statistics: ADB leading

D Management (1)

Evaluation• Within the framework of the tracking process of the PARIS21

partnership• Would be useful to have the results as main input for the Consortium • Proposed to launch it beginning of 2009 (rather than 2010 after the

consortium) DECISION 2

Consortium (ref. following presentation)

Funding• Deepened relations with DAC delegations and outside OECD

Next Steering Committee: 28-29 May 2009 PARIS DECISION 5

Organizational arrangements for 2009 PARIS21 Secretariat

Manager

Country and regional operations:• Deputy Manager• 2 Desk-Officers• Communications Officer for Advocacy

Partnership:• Project Manager Studies-Task Teams• Project Manager Consortium Organization• Project Manager Reporting

Administrative-Financial-IT Support• 3.5 Administrative Assistants• 0.2 IT support