ASSD Report Progress made since Angola

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ASSD ReportProgress made since Angola
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Resolutions

• 2010 RPHC No effort should be spared in ensuring
  that a census is undertaken and that data are
  disseminated in a timely manner
• Fragile states All countries experiencing
  conflict and emerging out of conflict should be
  supported to conduct or actively prepare for
  their censuses in the 2010 Round of Population
  and Housing Censuses and pick lessons from others
• Angola should specifically be actively supported
  with achieving concrete steps towards conducting
  her census as well as with statistical
  institutional reforms in line with the Reference
  Regional Strategic Framework for Statistical
  Capacity Building in Africa, National Strategies
  for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) and the
  African Charter on Statistics
• Lesotho and Nigeria should be encouraged and to
  release their census results without delay in
  compliance with the GDDS, SDDS and the
  Fundamental Principles for Official Statistics
• Language development African statisticians
  should strive to be multilingual consistent with
  the official languages adopted by the AUC and ECA
• Africa Young Statisticians Develop a research
  agenda that takes cognizance of intense census
  data analysis and enables them to fully
  participate in future ASSD sessions
• Gender statistics To improve census data
  analysis including gender-based analysis

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ECA, AfDB and some countries and other agencies
should

• Development of a Manual on Census Data
  Processing, to be launched officially at the 5th
  ASSD in Dakar, Senegal
• Lead a joint mission to Angola and DRC to assess
  the state of the countries plans for conducting
  the census, the NSDS and other key statistical
  processes
• Continue to assist countries to advocate for
  mainstreaming statistics in national development,
  budget processes, autonomy of statistical offices
  and independence of statistical operations
• Should put in place relevant peer support
  mechanisms for countries emerging out of conflict

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Emerging issues

• Effective advocacy for the census at political
  level and in society
• Need for good preparation for all phases of the
  census, better testing of all census phases,
  timely release of census results
• Harnessing IT for the census including latest
  technologies such as scanning technology

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• Countries emerging out of conflict

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Angola

• A team made up of ECA, RSA, PARIS21, UNFPA
  Mozambique
• ADB could not attend due to visa problems
• Met with major technical and financial partners,
  including all UN Agencies
• Met with NSS key government ministries,
  universities and the governor of the central bank

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Angola

• Issues discussed
• To proceed with the NSDS Design
• PARIS21 to undertake the first mission for the
  first step of NSDS Design
• The Angola government was asked to decide on the
  census date
• The date has been decided on 2011
• The team was asked to explore the possibility of
  opening training centre in existing for countries
• UNFPA and Mozambique have already started with
  the process
• Angola government to mobilise resources for
  census
• 80 of the 100 million has been set aside

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DRC

• Issues discussed
• Mission team consisting of PARIS21, ADB, World
  Bank visited DRC in April 2009
• The team decided on 2011 as the census date
• The finalisation of the NSDS Design
• The creation of a donor-support group and
  statistical development
• Mobilisation of technical and financial partners
• Decree for census was advocated for and has been
  signed

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Fragile states

• Meeting convened by Chair of the ASSD in Kigali,
  Rwanda, in May 2009
• Countries presented include Somalia, Sudan,
  Mozambique, RSA, Rwanda as well as Cambodia and
  Afghanistan
• To attempt to define an in/out conflict state in
  the context of statistical development
• To look at census as a peace-building initiative

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• ECA, AfDB, AUC and others

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Manual on Data Processing

• There is been ongoing work
• Preliminary work by RSA and ECA done
• Expert group meeting with 20 Countries
• Done
• The first draft is already available
• Workshop in December 2009 for all African
  countries to finalise the manual

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• Harnessing ICT

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• To address challenges facing countries in the use
  of ICT in census-taking
• The theme of the 5th ASSD
• 2 Pre-ASSD Workshops took place in RSA to discuss
  ICT issues
• A 3rd Workshop took place from 17 to 18 November
  2009 to further discuss and deliberate on ICT
  matters
• There is a need to put concrete steps to support
  countries on ICT in census-taking

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• Gender statistics

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• Gender Statistics
• Launched the Kampala City Group on gender
  statistics in October 2009
• 4 Workshops on dissemination of tools and
  engendering statistical processes (Lusaka,
  Cameroon, etc,- add other countries)
• Preparation of manual on engendering censuses and
  surveys
• First draft is available

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• Release of census results

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Release of Census Data

• Focus on Lesotho and Nigeria
• No substantive progress has been made
• Nigeria has since released results
• Need to have a team to deal with the issue

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• Language

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• There has been no progress registered
• Need to consider training opportunities in other
  countries to advance the development of languages
  beyond national languages

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• African Young Statisticians

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• Presented at the 57th Session of the ISI
• Consider cohorts of development e.g. MDGs, ICT
• Have been part of the ICT Group that has been
  preparing for the 5th ASSD
• Expand the ISIbalo Capacity Building Programme
  beyond Africa

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• Other important issues

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Emerging Issues and Ongoing Resolution

• Emerging Issues
• African Support Peer Mechanism
• Ongoing Resolution
• Encouraging outstanding countries to continue to
  prepare for 2010 RPHC
• The sustainability of the ASSD
• There is a need for this to be elevated to a
  resolution

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