About PARIS21

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• About PARIS21
• PARIS21 Secretariat

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About PARIS21

• Partnership in Statistics for Development in the
  21st Century (PARIS21)
• Established in November 1999, Secretariat hosted
  by OECD/DCD
• Goal to develop a culture of evidence-based
  policy making and implementation which serves to
  improve governance and government effectiveness
  in reducing poverty and achieving the Millennium
  Development Goals (MDGs).

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Partnership
Policy makers
Statisticians
Developing Countries
OECD Countries and Multilaterals
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Focus of work programme

• Independent evaluations in 2003 2006 found that
  PARIS21 is making a difference - but much more
  needs to be done
• Main focus is on National Strategies for the
  Development of Statistics (NSDS)
• - Design
• - Implementation
• - Scaling-up support for statistical capacity
  building

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Target

• Marrakech Action Plan for Statistics set a
  target
• to mainstream strategic planning of statistical
  systems and prepare National Strategies for the
  Development of Statistics for all low-income
  countries by 2006.
• ..and to have started to implement them by the
  following year with a view towards having better
  data to monitor progress towards national and
  international development goals by 2010

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Why now?

• Greater emphasis on evidence and managing for
  results e.g. in PRS and MDG monitoring
• Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness Better
  statistics needed by donors to inform aid
  allocation and monitoring
• Need for better use of better statistics for
  better development outcomes
• Investment in statistics will pay for itself many
  times over by improving the efficiency of
  resource allocation

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PRS and NSDS
National policy and planning frameworks
Frameworks for statistical development
PRS/MDG strategy
NSDS
HIS, EIS, etc
PRS ME
Other
GDDS
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Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness

• Aim Mutual accountability between donors and
  partner countries to deliver more effective aid

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How does PARIS21 work?

• Facilitating NSDSs through regional programmes
• Advocacy developing and deploying messages and
  materials
• Working with the wider partnership
• Reporting on NSDS progress and donor support
• Developing and sharing knowledge guidelines,
  advice, web site, knowledge base
• Satellite programmes ADP, IHSN and Metagora

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Regional programmes

• Shift support from NSDS design to NSDS
  implementation
• Intensify country-level work across range of
  PARIS21 activities advocacy, meetings, etc
• Coherence, synergy with other programmes
• Peer reviews and NSDS Essentials check list
• Regionally-based PARIS21 consultants

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Advocacy some recent examples

• Counting Down Poverty booklet
• Better Statistics, Better Policies, Better
  Development Outcomes leaflet
• Why does country X need good statistics?, based
  on experiences with assisting Malawi NSO.
• La Statistique au Service du Développement
  video

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Intensifying country-level advocacy

• Advocacy most relevant at country level
• Help statisticians to advocate to policy makers
  and funders, including donors
• Make best use of available materials
• Tailored materials
• National events
• Work with the wider partnership
• Also advocacy to donor countries and institutions

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Partnership and reporting

• Information sharing tools
• Consortium meeting proposed for 2008/ 09
• Task team on reporting of donor support for
  statistical capacity building, based on OECDs
  Creditor Reporting System
• Reporting on NSDS progress successes,
  constraints, lessons learnt
• Collation of country information, e.g. status and
  timetable of PRS processes

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Studies and knowledge development

• Support to countries on methods share existing
  information and fill gaps on
• Use of data
• NSDS and statistical development, e.g. database
  of costs of core statistical activities
• Task teams
• TT on partner reporting systems
• AfDB-Intersect-PARIS21 TT on mainstreaming
  sectoral statistics
• TT on Virtual Statistical System
• TT on training

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What next

• 3rd International Roundtable on Managing for
  Development Results (MfDR) in Hanoi in February
  2007 highlighted need to scale up support for
  statistical capacity building
• Follow-up meetings in Washington and Paris
• System-wide approach advocated a thematic
  programme-based approach (PBA) similar to
  Sector-wide approach (SWAp) to support
  implementation of NSDSs
• Meeting this week in Paris