Advocacy strategy Presentation by PARIS21 Secretariat

1. Advocacy strategy Presentation by PARIS21 Secretariat

2. Aim…..creating a Virtuous Cycle Better Statistics Increased demand Increased, better spent resources Better coordination

3. What is advocacy? • Advocacy: persuading key people who can make a difference to support your cause • Dissemination: providing and promoting access to statistical information. • This can be powerful advocacy (better statistics leading to more demand, etc) • Lobbying those who can make a difference • Communicating with stakeholders: umbrella concept that incorporates all of these

4. How can advocacy help? Addressing each part of the vicious/ virtuous cycle, by advocating for: • Production of better statistics • More and better use of existing statistics • More and better focused funding for statistics • Better coordination between donors • Better coordination between different parts of the NSS

5. Steps in developing an advocacy strategy • Advocacy aims: what are you advocating for? • Advocacy to whom – who can make a difference to achieving advocacy aims? • Advocacy messages – what will motivate them to do that? • Advocacy materialsand approaches – what will work best? • Advocacy strategy and action plan – regional and country level

6. Advocacy aims Take from NSDS strategies, objectives and goals, e.g.: • Organisational and institutional change • E.g. Develop Statistics Act; strengthen sectoral statistics units; coordination, harmonisation across NSS; NSO leadership role • Improved awareness and use of statistics • Produce good quality, timely statistics • Develop skills and capacity of staff • More and better coordinated resources from government and donors

7. So what can NSS deliver itself and what does it need to advocate for? • Organisational and institutional change • E.g. Develop Statistics Act; strengthened Statistics Units; coordination, harmonisation across NSS; NSO leadership role • Improved awareness and use of statistics • Produce good quality, timely statistics across NSS • Develop skills and capacity of staff across NSS • More and better coordinated resources from government and donors

8. Advocacy aims

9. Who to advocate to? “Who can make a difference in achieving that advocacy aim?” Key messages “What key messages will work best in motivating them to help you achieve the advocacy aim?” Advocacy to whom and key messages

10. Some examples of key messages Better use of better statistics leads to: better policies better aid effectiveness better development outcomes (e.g. health, education, poverty reduction, etc) Good statistics improve transparency and accountability of Government decisions to electorate Investment in statistics will pay for itself many times over by improving resource allocation

11. More examples of key messages • Statistics are needed for “upstream” policy development; as well as for “downstream” processes such as monitoring and evaluation • There are two-way benefits to NSO and line ministries from the NSS SP and a better coordinated NSS • Donors must resist funding statistical activities that solely meet their own special interests

12. Advocacy materials “What types of advocacy materials will work best with each advocacy target?” Advocacy approaches “What types of approaches (direct and indirect) will work best with them?” What types of advocacy materials and approaches will work best?

13. Advocacy activity Priority/ timescale Action Plan to deliver advocacy