Accelerated Data Program ADP

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Accelerated Data Program ADP
FAO/PARIS21 REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE INTEGRATION
OF AND ACCESS TO AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
FORBETTER FORMULATION AND MONITORING OF RURAL
DEVELOPMENT POLICIESAlgers, Algeria 8-9
December 2007Back-to-back with the 20th
AFCASAW-07-02-1
François Fonteneau, PARIS21/OCDE
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Accelerated Data Program ADP
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Rationale

• Why cant we better measure and monitor results?
• 3 issues
• Existing data are not always fully exploited
• Methods and concepts are not harmonized
• Scope, timeliness and frequency are not optimal

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Goal and Objectives

• To strengthen country capacity in producing
  statistical data relevant for policy design,
  monitoring and evaluation, by
• Better documenting, preserving, and disseminating
  existing microdata
• Better exploiting existing datasets (quality
  assessments, further analysis)
• Better strategizing and aligning survey programs
  and statistical outputs to priority data needs

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ImplementationPilot Countries
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ImplementationPilot Countries
Africa Asia Central and South America Middle-East
Cameroon Congo (DR) Ethiopia The Gambia Kenya Liberia Mali Mozambique Niger Nigeria Senegal Uganda Bangladesh Fiji Indonesia Mongolia Philippines Sri Lanka Thailand Vietnam Guatemala Honduras Peru Yemen
Expressed interest Bolivia, Colombia, Guinea,
Guyana, Mexico, Panama, Palestine
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ImplementationPartners

• Core partners
• PARIS21 Secretariat
• World Bank
• International Household Survey Network (IHSN)
• Other international partners
• Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the
  Pacific (UNESCAP)
• Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) 
• United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 
• Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
  (UN-ESCWA)

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Implementation

• Based on Country demand
• Simplified and standardized for fast execution
• Initiation
• Request of participation from country
• Preparation
• Development of a country-specific ADP work
  program
• Ideally explicitly linked to the NSDS
• Preferably all key microdata producers
  involved
• Implementation
• Technical assistance, training, and financial
  support
• Regular technical follow-up and supervision by
  the ADP team
• Administrative modalities may vary from country
  to country
• Evaluation (later)

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Activities Task 1

• Documentation, preservation and dissemination of
  existing survey microdata
• Complete inventory of existing microdata
• Documentation of existing datasets following
  international standards/best practices
• Definition of a microdata dissemination policy,
  in accordance with the national legislation
• Anonymization of microdata
• Establishment of national microdata archive

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Activities Task 1Implementation

• Tools
• Microdata Management Toolkit (with related
  guidelines)
• Dissemination of Microdata Files Policy
  Guidelines
• Anonymization tools
• National Data Archive template
• Progress
• Full support proposals implemented in 9
  countries, 6 others being designed/adopted
• Data inventories completed or underway in 15
  countries
• 250 staff trained on the Toolkit (50 institutions
  in 15 countries)
• Surveys being Toolkited, dissemination policies
  being designed
• National Data Archive being developed, first live
  in December

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Activities Task 1Implementation

• Progress

Known surveys are Best Estimates Available
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Activities Task 2

• Analysis of existing survey data and assessment
  of the past survey programs
• Focuses on priority issues identified in PRSP and
  other sector strategies
• Expected outputs
• detailed assessment of the weaknesses of
  data/survey instruments and improvement
• analytical work and policy briefs

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Activities Task 2 T1 shows the need to improve
reliability
Are you currently attending school or, if school
is not in session, did you attend school in the
session just completed and plan to attend next
session?
2004 HIS, Malawi
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Activities Task 2 T1 shows the need for
harmonization
Measuring access to improved water sources in
Ghana
CWIQ 2003
CENSUS 2000
DHS 2003
GLSS 1998
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Activities Task 2 Implementation

• Tools
• Question-Bank, under development
• Later, support to national question banks
• consistency between different national sources
• reuse and harmonization of literal questions,
  enumerator instructions, response categories ,
  etc.
• Progress
• Identification of activities dependent on
  country situation and priorities
• ADP focus on T2 will be increasing

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Activities Task 3

• Development of improved survey program and data
  collection. Restricted to a few countries (budget
  constraints)
• Definition of more modular survey programs,
  aligned to clearly defined priorities
• Data collection complements other sources of
  funding
• Implementation Tools
• Survey Quality Assessment Framework
  Question-Bank
• Implementation Progress
• Niger support for TA and data quality
  management
• Haiti upcoming

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ImplementationLessons learnt so far

• Microdata production is huge and hidden
• Microdata dissemination is limited and mostly
  ad-hoc. Obstacles are
• Legal (confidentiality) and political
• Financial (rarely budgeted by sponsors)
• But also technical and psychological (Fear of
  contradiction, no incentive - feedback from
  users)
• High demand from countries for
• Technical tools (Toolkit, NADA, anonymization)
• Policy guidelines (confidentiality,
  dissemination, etc.)
• Training
• Can have major impact on quality of future
  surveys
• Need to work with users also (Task2 and Task3)

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ImplementationLessons learnt so far

• Lots of positive externalities
• Enhance south-south cooperation (CMR-gtDRC,
  UGA-gtKEN RWA )
• System wide approach
• NSDS implementation
• Close link with other initiatives / programs
• DevInfo
• MECOVI
• Regional Award for Innovation in Statistics for
  Latin America and the Caribbean (DFID/WB)
• MICS program in 50 countries
• Not expensive and doable
• Constraint on country staff time
• Growing demand from countries and interest from
  partners

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