REPORTING ON STATISTICAL DEVELOPMENT Reporting on partners activities in country: CRESS or C-PRESS June 4, 2010 PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center

REPORTING ON STATISTICAL DEVELOPMENT

Reporting on partners activities in country: CRESS or C-PRESS

June 4, 2010

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Reporting on statistical development

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Reporting part of legal responsibilities, nationally and internationally, accountability, advocacy

Reporting is an integral part of the monitoring and evaluation system of NSDS

It takes different forms and done by many countries

Reporting on statistical development


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Partners report on country statistical development: WB Bulletin Board, GDDS Country Site,

UNSD Country Site AfDB and UNECA for African countries

PARIS21: Guide on statistical development reporting, Guide pour un compte rendu sur le developpement de la statistique, draft.

What should include the reporting


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Beyond indicators, annual report Activities, audit, evaluation, statistical

development Including reporting on funding statistical

development: public expenditure review The role of technical and financing

partners: the Country report on partners support to statistics: the CRESS or C-PRESS

The role of technical and financial partners : the CRESS or C-PRESS


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Integrated on the overall partners role Role

Statistical development policy advice Funding including funding mechanisms Technical assistance, and advice

Partners as users: Using statistics in their own aid policy design

CRESS or C-PRESS


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A. ObjectivesB. Institutional frameworkC. OutputsD. MethodologyE. ActivitiesF. DisseminationG. ConstraintsH. Global uses of C-PRESSRecommendations

A1 Overall objectives


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To ensure that support to statistical development follows Paris Declaration principles and Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) among which Ownership: support within (and only within) NSDS Alignment: using local systems and avoiding project unit

especially for surveys Harmonization: to avoid duplication especially in supporting

similar surveys Results: agreeing on results measurement within NSDS M&E Predictability: donors will provide 3-5 year forward

information on their planned aid especially for the multi year National Survey Program

Conditionality – donors will switch from reliance on prescriptive conditions about how and when aid money is spent to conditions based on the developing country’s own development objectives.

A2 Objectives (from PRESS)


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To learn what development partners are doing in statistical fields

To identify areas of statistics in need of more support (within NSS)

To raise the profile of statistics within the overall context of aid to the country

Design the most appropriate financing mechanism for the country, and increase the efficiency of support

• Opportunity to establish (or strengthen) a coordinating sub group if it does not exist

B Institutional framework


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Coordination of partners is the responsibility of the country

In some countries (especially fragile countries) donors have coordination mechanisms per se

Reporting should be the responsibility of the country (the coordinating body of the national statistical system)

In some cases or for the first report, partners could take the leading role

C1 Outputs


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National Report (C-PRESS) and Recommendations

Mechanism of partners coordination strengthened or established

Directory of partners (Directory on national statistical system) Report and annexes available on web

site Input in Global PRESS

C 2 Information provided


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Current statistical support (technical and financial)

Planned statistical support (technical and financial)

Statistical areas being supported Period covered for each activity Amount of money committed and

disbursed Mechanisms used

D Methodology


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Following existing partners reporting frame in the country (if any)

Following PRESS methodology and nomenclatures related to statistical fields, which will allow aggregation

More detailed information adapted to country context, especially about NSS unit receiving the support

E Activities


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Preparation - two possibilities: The partners trough the coordinating body The national council of statistics (through the

executive secretariat or other unit) Activities:

Identification of donors Identification of NSS units Questionnaire (adapting PRESS questionnaire) Data collection, and processing Report and recommendations

Establishing a permanent mechanism to produce the C-PRESS

F Dissemination


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Presentation to the National Council of Statistics

Publish in the CSO web site, Communicated to the PRESS team

(PARIS21)

G Constraints


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C-PRESS will face constraints identified in the PRESS process: Variety of type of financing with different time

frames and nomenclatures, difficulty to identify statistical components in wider project.

Size and number of actors of the national statistical system;

In addition: Reporting on activities from partners not

present in the country.

H Global uses of C-PRESS


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Some pilot country comparisons show that PRESS underestimates the actual support.

In the future, with more and more country reports, aggregation will allow a more precise information on the global support to statistics development.

In the meantime, country reports will allow to measure PRESS coverage on the real support.

Recommendations


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Countries: to develop their reporting system on statistical development within NSDS, to launch reviews on public expenditures on statistics including C-PRESS, to review and update international sites on reporting, and to disseminate the reports on their web sites.

Donors: to inform their country representatives to participate and support country efforts to prepare C-PRESS, and to provide relevant and disaggregated information on support to statistics.

PARIS21: to finalize and disseminate the Guide on reporting, and to prepare a Guide on C-PRESS including nomenclatures, and to report annually on C-PRESS

Documents

REPORTING ON STATISTICAL DEVELOPMENT Reporting on partners activities in country: CRESS or C-PRESS June 4, 2010 PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center