REFERENCE REGIONAL STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR STATISTICAL CAPACITY BUILDING IN AFRICA

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REFERENCE REGIONAL STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR
STATISTICAL CAPACITY BUILDING IN
AFRICA (RRSF) IMPLEMENTATION, MONITORING,
REPORTING AND EVAUATION BY PROF. BEN
KIREGYERA 9 FEBRUARY 2006
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I. IMPLEMENTATION

• A Importance of Implementation
• Aims to
• deliver the results,
• achieve purpose
• contribute effectively to the overall framework
  goals
• Importance Kaplan and Norton (1996) the
  ability to execute a strategy is more important
  than the quality of the strategy itself
• Lessons learnt from inadequate implementation of
  the Addis Ababa Plan of Action
• Risk factors identified and mitigating measures
  provided
• B Implementation Framework
• Implementing, monitoring and reporting to be
  supported by structures of regional organizations
  structures and ongoing statistical programmes
• ECA structures include a Statistics Team, ABSA,
  CODI, FASDEV, Council of Ministers

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• ADB infrastructure includes a Statistics
  Division, ICP-Africa (established relationships
  between ADB/sub-regional organizations/regional
  training centres/regional member countries),
  Board of Governors
• AU structures include NEPAD, Council of Ministers
  and Summit of Heads of State and Governments
• C Roles for key stakeholders defined
• Creation of framework awareness at all levels
  (national, sub-national, regional
  international)
• Need for an extensive consistent communication
  program (ECA/ADB/ PARIS21)
• Stakeholders to play following roles

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• Countries
• Prime beneficiaries - primary responsibility for
  framework implementation
• Directors of NSOs prime mover oversee awareness
  creation framework implementation
• Each country to designate a Coordinator
• publicize popularize framework among key
  stakeholders
• design national framework awareness program
• periodically report on progress
• may also be coordinator of the NSDS (synergy)
• Each country to design or update its National
  Strategy for the
• Development of Statistics (NSDS)
• Director of NSO to initiate NSDS and secure
  support for it.

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• Sub-regional level
• Statistics Units to designate coordinator
• creating awareness at this level (Councils of
  Ministers, meetings of
• Directors of NSOs, workshops, etc)
• provide back up to country coordinators in
  creating awareness
• coordinate with Regional Coordinator
• periodic reporting
• need for strengthening Statistics Units
• Regional organizations
• ECA/ADB/AU
• to create strategy awareness regionally and
  internationally
• create high level awareness/commitment support
  Sub-
• regional/Country Coordinators
• ECA ADB to
• play leading roles in coordinating implementing,
  monitoring
• reporting
• agree on appropriate coordination mechanism
  taking into
• account following tasks

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• Tasks to be performed
• establishing a coordination team (Regional
  Coordinator,
• professionals, consultants, etc.)
• initiating working with development partners
  (e.g. PARIS21) to
• develop promotional materials tools
• mobilizing through own structures resources
  needed to implement
• the framework
• using own technical assistance activities in
  countries sub-regional
• organizations to further assistance to
  relevant implementing agencies
• liaising with country sub-regional
  coordinators on a regular basis
• to assist them on implementation matters
• provide to countries sub-regional
  organizations technical
• assistance on a need basis
• undertake supervision missions to countries and
  sub-regional
• organizations prepare supervision and
  progress reports
• working out reporting formats and monitoring
  implementation

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• liaising with sub-regional coordinators to
  receive monitoring
• information on their own activities their
  support to countries
• reporting on progress on framework
  implementation for
• discussion at different levels
• establishing a Web page on which to post the
  latest information
• about framework implementation

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• Donors International Organizations
• - greater role in supporting statistical
  capacity building
• developing methodologies frameworks
• organizing working groups to review
  methodologies/
• frameworks
• funding statistical programs projects
• - role enhanced if
• appreciate statistics as a sector to be singled
  out for support
• advocate for statistics at every level
• include statistical capacity building in donor
  supported
• projects and programmes
• intervention of donors is better coordinated at
  national, sub-
• regional and regional level
• D Cost of implementation and monitoring
• Incremental cost for framework implementation
  and monitoring
• is about US 75 million per year
• underscores need for increased government
  funding

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II. Monitoring

• Objective of monitoring
• Ensure that framework implementation is on track
• Assess how much is being achieved/likely to be
  achieved
• Provides information needed for accountability
  purposes
• Monitoring requires performance indicators
• both quantitative and qualitative indicators to
  be used
• indicators selected (see Logical Framework
  Annex)
• system-related indicators
• agency-related indicators
• data-related indicators
• assistance-related indicators
• Monitoring framework builds on
• PARIS21 Statistical Capacity Building Indicators
  (SCBI)
• Data Quality Assessment Framework (IMF)
• Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness

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• Monitoring is a continuous process to be
  undertaken at different levels
• Countries will be encouraged to monitor own
  statistical development as part of the NSDS (NSDS
  mechanisms for monitoring) in context of the
  RRSF
• Sub-regional coordinators to receive collate
  monitoring information
• Overall monitoring to be done by ECA and ADB
• PARIS21 Light Reporting Mechanism may be used to
  report on donors
• Peer reviews of country NSS and statistical work
  of sub-regional organizations

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III. Reporting

• Monitoring ineffective unless results reported
  and necessary action taken
• Annual Report
• country reports, sub-regional reports
• ECA ADB consolidate report to produce Annual
  Report
• Light Reporting Mechanism by PARIS21 to be used
  to report
• on donor activities
• report to be distributed to members of ABSA
  FASDEV
• Bi-annual review report
• Based on reviews taken in 2007, 2009, 2011 and
  2013 by an
• independent institution/agency
• report to identify successes, failures
  constraints
• recommend actions for next two years
• report to be presented to CODI, FASDEV, ECA
  Conference
• of Ministers ADB Board of Governors

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• Mid-decade review report
• mid-decade review 2010 by an independent
• institution/agency
• determine whether framework still relevant
• recommend actions for next 5 years
• report presented to CODI, FASDEV, ECA Council of
  
• Ministers and ADB Governing Board
• Main review of the framework
• - main review of framework
  (2015) target year for achieving
• most of the MDGs
• - independent institution/agency
• - report to identify
• Most significant constraints
• Most significant successful strategies
• How well framework objectives were achieved
  
• - report presented to CODI,
  FASDEV, ECA Council of
• Ministers and ADB Board of Governors

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• IV. Conclusions
• RRSF will support capacity building efforts
• stakeholders must all play their respective
  roles
• ECA ADB should coordinate overall
  implementation,
• monitoring and evaluation

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Thank You