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ASTRA: An IT tool for the Assessment for Statistical TRAining. James Whitworth Head, International Statistical Co-operation Eurostat, European Commission International Forum on Monitoring National Development, Beijing, People’s Republic of China 27 – 29 September 2011.
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ASTRA: An IT tool for the Assessment for Statistical TRAining James WhitworthHead, International Statistical Co-operationEurostat, European CommissionInternational Forum on Monitoring National Development, Beijing, People’s Republic of China27 – 29 September 2011
ASTRA Objectives (general) • Increase the availability of people who are trained to use, produce and manage statistics by: • 1. Integrating training within capacity building actions as part of medium-term statistics strategies, based on NSDSs • 2. Targeting proposals for statistical training • 3. Identifying how training institutes can sustainably meet the demand for statistics-related training
What ASTRA can do • ASTRA can analyse demand for statistics training to facilitate development of national training plans that make best use of training / human resources budget. • ASTRA can analyse demand for statistics training providers to enable matching demand with supply. • ASTRA’s outputs are consistent reports. • Hence, ASTRA is useful for preparing a NSDS implementation plan. • Future: putting ASTRA on the Eurostat website for free and presenting the tools in countries & regional organisations.
Managing the statistical training demand in developing countries: ASTRA (new tool): Assessment of Statistical Training
Managing the statistical training demand in developing countries:
ASTRA pilot implementations • 2009: Tanzania Senegal • 2010: South Africa MaliLiberia • 2011: Ethiopia AGROST Mozambique Paris – CODESA
Next steps: 2012 - 3 IT: Regular Maintenance and debugging of ASTRA • Incorporate comments from users, including corrective maintenance and project management; • Introduce improvements into different modules; • Guidance for ASTRA users in a helpdesk. Practical fieldwork application of the tool, mobilisation of partners through the promotion of ASTRA • Organise national or regional one-week workshops to be held in 6 different countries (4 in 2012 and 2 in 2013); • Analyse and discuss the output of ASTRA; identify the changes needed for the improvement of the tool.
Thank you James Whitworth Head, International Statistical Co-operation Eurostat, European Commission james.whitworth@ec.europa.eu