CountrySTAT / FENIX
Overview, Objectives, Implementations and Approach
Why?
• Reduce hunger
• Alleviate poverty
• Promote rural development
Introductory Considerations
Global food and agriculture challenges require
fast, informed and targeted decisions
Introductory Considerations
We need to create the conditions for
evidence-based policies
Requirements
• High quality, comparable and timely data
• Mobilization of the national and international community
Data Issues
Data is a renewable resource, created every day by many organizations and individuals
There is a gap between the produced data and its availability
Data Issues
• Lack of data and metadata harmonization
• Poor data dissemination systems/mechanisms
• Restrictive or unclear data policy
• Poor communication and awareness
What’s needed
• Avail data as “public good”
• Ensure interoperability between IT systems
• Include expert-knowledge and users’ requirements in the IT system design
• Strengthen the international, regional and national institutional networks
The 3 Key DimensionsInstitutional Framework
(National/International Stakeholders)
Data availability
(IT platform/tools)
Data m
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Statistical governanceDa
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Procedures and tools
Political area
Technical area Data Sharing Network
(SDMX, DDI)
The Data Sharing Network• Enables data exchange at all levels
• Creates a common technical language across data owners, statisticians, analysts, academics, journalists, etc.
• Includes methods and tools to interpret and understand the data, their reliability and their exact meaning (metadata)
• Enables data harmonization and integration within and across countries and regions
• IT systems will provide the technological infrastructure supporting the network
The FENIX Data Sharing NetworkGlobal
• FAOSTAT• AMIS Statistics• AMIS Policy• ADAM• FAO-WHO GIFT• Voices of the Hungry• Rural Livelihood
Monitoring• Global Foot & Mouth
Disease Monitoring• InfoSys for Forestry
Regional
• UEMOA (RegionSTAT)• UN-ECA• AfricaFertilizer• Regional Initiative on
Water Scarcity
National
• CountrySTAT• 17 countries in
Sub-Saharan Africa
• UAE• Bhutan
• Application of mobile technologies in
• Tanzania for CountrySTAT
• Nigeria for AMIS
Data Exchange
Key features• Based on Open Source software; no licensing constraints and full
redistribution rights
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Data sharing through web services (APIs)
• Diversified data collection/upload methods
• Ability to handle different type of data
• Data discovery system based on metadata
• Advanced analytical capacities with the embedded “R” statistical package
• Extensible: ability to plug-in new functionalities and applications
Implementation Strategy
Demand-driven approach, supported by a flexible and modular technology
Adopt the Open Data concept and methods to enhance information sharing and benefit from the availability of data from different sources
Broaden the scope of CountrySTAT to support data collection and management (not just data dissemination)
Ensure relevance of CountrySTAT data and tools for the organization managing the system (owner)