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UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA
AFRICAN CENTRE FOR STATISTICS
Committee for the Development of Information
Addis Ababa - ETHIOPIA
29 April 4 May 2007
CAPACITY BUILDING
Oumar SARR, Statistician
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Outline
  • Issues and Challenges facing Africa Statistical
    System
  • Constraints faced by the National Statistical
    System
  • ECAs Response to Some of the Issues and
    Challenges

3
Issues and Challenges
  • Regional level
  • Willingness of integration
  • NEPAD
  • At country level
  • Development of democracy
  • Emerging statistical areas MDGs, Welfare, HIV,
    Knowledge economy

4
Constraints faced by the NSS
  • Lack of statistical awareness from political
    deciders
  • Institutional
  • Lack of financial capacity
  • To put in place infrastructures
  • To conduct statistical activities
  • Lack of human capacity number and quality in all
    areas

5
ECAs Response
  • Advocacy
  • Institutional development
  • Financing activities
  • Training

6
Advocacy
  • African Statistics Day (ASD)
  • Africa Symposium on Statistical Development
    (ASSD)
  • Statistical Commission for Africa
    (StatCom-Africa)
  • Development of Communication Tools

7
Institutional development
  • Support to the elaboration and implementation of
    the NSDS

8
Training
  • The philosophy
  • Cooperation South-South
  • Database countries and experts
  • Sharing experience
  • Seminars on
  • PHC
  • Workshops on census planning, enumeration,
    analysis, dissemination, etc.
  • Elaboration of census materials

9
Training
  • Seminars on (Contd)
  • HS
  • Workshops (survey methodologies, questionnaire
    design, data processing and analysis, )
  • NA
  • Workshops on SNA implementation
  • Expert groups
  • Technical assistance
  • Support to STCs
  • Curricula development
  • Hosting interns

10
THANK YOU!
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