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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

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Issues and Challenges

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

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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

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ECAs Response

• Advocacy
• Institutional development
• Financing activities
• Training

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Advocacy

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

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Institutional development

• Support to the elaboration and implementation of
  the NSDS

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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

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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

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THANK YOU!