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Collaboration Among Developing Countries, Partner States, and International Organizations in Building Statistical Capacity for National Accounts: The UK DFID-Funded GDDS Project for Anglophone Africa. Prepared for discussion by IMF and World Bank
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Collaboration Among Developing Countries, Partner States, and International Organizations in Building Statistical Capacity for National Accounts: The UK DFID-Funded GDDS Project for Anglophone Africa Prepared for discussion by IMF and World Bank Joint Eurostat-UNSD Conference on International Outreach and Coordination in National Accounts for Sustainable Growth and Development Luxembourg May 6-8, 2008
International Commitments and Frameworks • General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) projects for Anglophone Africa • Funding agency • United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) • Executing agencies • IMF • World Bank DFID-GDDS Project of Anglophone Africa
International Commitments and Frameworks • GDDS projects for Anglophone Africa • GDDS Phase I • 15 countries 2001-2006 • Participation in the General Data Dissemination System • Macroeconomic and socioeconomic datasets • Metadata only • GDDS Phase II • 22 countries 2006-2009 • Execution of GDDS plans for improvement and National Strategies for Statistical Development (NSDS) • Data production and institutional capacity DFID-GDDS Project of Anglophone Africa
GDDS Phase II • Modular approach • Inventory packages of statistical outcomes participating TA collaborators can help provide, as a menu from which countries can select, based on national statistical development strategies • Modules formed from consistent topical structures that facilitated interagency coordination • NSDS, incorporating GDDS and Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) concepts (IMF) • Statistical production schema (World Bank) DFID-GDDS Project of Anglophone Africa
GDDS Phase II DFID-GDDS Project of Anglophone Africa
National accounts module – Expected output • Improvements in the coverage and currentness of GDP (integration framework) through maximum use of existing data sources, especially those currently underutilized, in addition to improving existing surveys; and • Improvement in relevance of GDP by rebasing to the most recent year allowed by available data sources. DFID-GDDS Project of Anglophone Africa
Context and purpose of the National Accounts module – use of available sources for integration framework • Household income and expenditure surveys and related surveys for measuring poverty: • These are an important source for compiling final household consumption, income and subsistence production; • Value added tax: • An important administrative source for improving the business register and estimates of industry output and value added; • Government accounts: • These data on actual government expenditures (rather than budget estimates) are the primary source for estimating activities of the government sector; and • Banking data: • These data are critical to estimating financial intermediation services indirectly measured (FISIM). DFID-GDDS Project of Anglophone Africa
Capacity requirements for participating countries • Module emphasizes the need for adequate planning and resource provision (see also SDDS/GDDS/ PRSP module. • Needed national resources: • Collection of data from underutilized sources and improvement of existing surveys require a minimum of two technical staff part time for a small economy and more in the case of a large economy. • Management should • express a commitment to providing these resources as work on the module begins and • remain involved in continuing to identify statistical needs and priorities and for supporting their staff where needed (e.g. ensuring continued access to administrative data from other ministries). DFID-GDDS Project of Anglophone Africa
Planned execution of the module • Regional workshop covering • The use of survey data in the national accounts; • The data needs and priorities for surveys and administrative sources; • Technical aspects of rebasing the accounts; • Specific project outcomes for each country and a plan to achieve them (planning and sampling, follow-up, data analysis) • Discuss the staffing and other inputs, potential funding sources. • Technical assistance missions addressing • Improving existing surveys and in exploring the increased use of administrative data • A closing workshop confirming the achievement of the planned outputs and identifying common problems. DFID-GDDS Project of Anglophone Africa