PROF. BEN KIREGYERA

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A REPORT OF THE PARIS21 WORKSHOP FOR EAST AFRICA
AND THE HORN KAMAPALA, UGANDA 23-26 JULY 200
BY PROF. BEN KIREGYERA CHAIRMAN, UBOS 5 OCTOBER
2001
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0 PRESENTATION
1. INTRODUCTION 2. HIGHLIGHTS FROM COUNTRY
REPORTS AND DONOR FORUM 3. WORKSHOP CONCLUSIONS
AND RECOMMENDATIONS 4. NEXT STEPS
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1. INTRODUCTION

• PARIS21 Initiative
• established in 1999 as a CONSORTIUM
• objective capacities, especially in poor
  developing
• countries,
• ? promoting a culture for setting and
• monitoring policy based on evidence,
  and
• ? fostering well-managed national
  statistical
• systems that use resources effectively

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• Workshop Organization
• Organizers
• ISAE, UBOS, PARIS21
• Funding
• NORAD, EUROSTAT, PARIS21
• Theme
• Supporting Policy with Statistics -
  Developing a Strategic Approach
• Participants
• Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda,
  Burundi, Djibouti, Sudan, Madagascar, South
  Africa, Zambia, COMESA, EAC, ECA,
  International Organizations, Donors

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• Main topics covered
• Country monitoring of Millennium Development
• Goals
• The Compact for African recovery
• Advocating for better statistics for better
  policies
• Poverty monitoring, strategies and outcomes
• Tools for poverty monitoring
• Tools for poverty information sector development
  
• goals in health, education and agriculture
• Other major policy demands
• Planning statistical systems

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• Workshop conducted through

• paper presentation, discussions and sharing
• country experiences
• country group discussions
• parallel discussion sessions
• a donor forum

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2. HIGHLIGHTS FROM COUNTRY REPORTS AND DONOR
FORUM

• Country Reports
• on-going poverty reduction strategy/country
• development programme or starting PRSP
• process
• data used in development of national plans
• main data sources -censuses, surveys,
• administrative records, participatory poverty
  
• assessment
• main constraints

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• Main features of country plan outlines
• developing/strengthening institutional
• framework for PRSP process
• reviewing/restructuring/strengthening NSS
• programmes of censuses/surveys
• training programmes
• increased funding for/raising profile of
  statistics
• building databanks (national and sectoral)
• developing effective dissemination strategy
• donor coordination
• support by PARIS21 in programmes

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Donor Forum
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• objective
• indicate areas of donor support
• EU
• CP programmes for next 5 years
• grants for budgetary support
• support to sub-regional programmes (EAC,
• COMESA)
• DFID
• provides support for PRSP preparation
• provides resources to PARIS21
• support to strengthen NSSs (censuses,
• surveys, etc)
• poverty monitoring

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• World Bank
• establishment of Trust Fund for Statistical
• Capacity Building (TFSCB)
• funds can be used to
• assess statistical capacity needs
• develop Master Plans linking with
• PRSP/other development strategies
• restructuring or modernizing NSSs
• funding up to 400,000
• Japan
• contributing to PARIS21
• setting up IT Initiative
• TICAD

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3. WORKSHOP CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
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• Advocacy for statistics
• Africa Statistics Day (week) celebrations
• use of PARIS21advocacy tools
• other ways of advocating for statistics
• PARIS21, ECA, donors to assist
• Good Practices
• developing and restructuring NSSs
• establishing Poverty Monitoring Master Plans
• creating Socio-economic Databanks
• creating PRSP institutional framework
• creating community-based information systems

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• Capacity building effort at sub-regional level
• training at centres ISAE, EASTC, Kigali Centre
• short-term training
• regional statistical training project at COMESA
• trade statistics at COMESA
• regional database at EAC
• PARIS21, ECA and donors to assist
• Sustainability
• donor support not substitute for Government
• obligation
• increased Government support/ training/
• attractive terms and conditions of service

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• User needs assessment
• continuous process
• role of user-producer dialogue
• PARIS21, ECA and donors to assist
• Disaggregated data
• support decentralized governance
• development of community-based information
• Core Welfare Indicator Questionnaire (CWIQ)
• role in assessing poverty
• PARIS21 and World Bank to assist
• Information and Telecommunication Technology

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• National Statistical Office
• need restructuring
• PARIS21, ECA and donors to assist
• National Census of Population and Housing
• delayed undertaking in a number of countries
• PARIS21 Task Team on Census
• South-South Cooperation
• great value in this form of cooperation
• PARIS21, UN system and donors to assist
• Donor coordination
• essential for coordinated development of NSSs
• sufficient communication/coordination of
• donors

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• Dissemination Strategy
• user-oriented strategy using good practices
• building communication thinking in designing
• data collection
• building national databanks
• 4. NEXT STEPS
• National Stakeholders Workshops to
• discuss experiences, conclusions,
• recommendations of Kampala workshop
• discuss and finalize national action plans
• strategies
• PARIS21 requested to facilitate process

Thank You