Reporting on statistical development
This seminar focuses on reporting on statistical development, including reporting on activities, funding, and partners' support to statistics. It explores the objectives, outputs, and constraints of the C-PRESS and provides recommendations for effective reporting. The seminar also discusses the institutional framework and coordination mechanisms for reporting.
Reporting on statistical development
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PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center Reporting on statistical development Reporting on partners activities in country: CRESS or C-PRESS
Reporting on statistical development • Reporting part of legal responsibilities, nationally and internationally, accountability, advocacy • Reporting is an integral part of the monitoring and evaluation system of NSDS • It takes different forms and done by many countries PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
Reporting on statistical development • Partners report on country statistical development: • WB Bulletin Board, GDDS Country Site, UNSD Country Site • AfDB and UNECA for African countries • PARIS21: Guide on statistical development reporting, Guide pour un compte rendu sur le developpement de la statistique, draft. PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
What should include the reporting • Beyond indicators, annual report • Activities, audit, evaluation, statistical development • Including reporting on funding statistical development: public expenditure review • The role of technical and financing partners: the Country report on partners support to statistics: the CRESS or C-PRESS PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
The role of technical and financial partners : the CRESS or C-PRESS • Integrated on the overall partners role • Role • Statistical development policy advice • Funding including funding mechanisms • Technical assistance, and advice • Partners as users: Using statistics in their own aid policy design PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
CRESS or C-PRESS • Objectives • Institutional framework • Outputs • Methodology • Activities • Dissemination • Constraints • Global uses of C-PRESS Recommendations PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
A1 Overall objectives • To ensure that support to statistical development follows Paris Declaration principles and Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) among which • Ownership: support within (and only within) NSDS • Alignment: using local systems and avoiding project unit especially for surveys • Harmonization: to avoid duplication especially in supporting similar surveys • Results: agreeing on results measurement within NSDS M&E • Predictability: donors will provide 3-5 year forward information on their planned aid especially for the multi year National Survey Program • Conditionality – donors will switch from reliance on prescriptive conditions about how and when aid money is spent to conditions based on the developing country’s own development objectives. PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
A2 Objectives (from PRESS) • To learn what development partners are doing in statistical fields • To identify areas of statistics in need of more support (within NSS) • To raise the profile of statistics within the overall context of aid to the country • Design the most appropriate financing mechanism for the country, and increase the efficiency of support • Opportunity to establish (or strengthen) a coordinating sub group if it does not exist PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
B Institutional framework • Coordination of partners is the responsibility of the country • In some countries (especially fragile countries) donors have coordination mechanisms per se • Reporting should be the responsibility of the country (the coordinating body of the national statistical system) • In some cases or for the first report, partners could take the leading role PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
C1 Outputs • National Report (C-PRESS) and Recommendations • Mechanism of partners coordination strengthened or established • Directory of partners • (Directory on national statistical system) • Report and annexes available on web site • Input in Global PRESS PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
C 2 Information provided • Current statistical support (technical and financial) • Planned statistical support (technical and financial) • Statistical areas being supported • Period covered for each activity • Amount of money committed and disbursed • Mechanisms used PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
D Methodology • Following existing partners reporting frame in the country (if any) • Following PRESS methodology and nomenclatures related to statistical fields, which will allow aggregation • More detailed information adapted to country context, especially about NSS unit receiving the support PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
E Activities • Preparation - two possibilities: • The partners trough the coordinating body • The national council of statistics (through the executive secretariat or other unit) • Activities: • Identification of donors • Identification of NSS units • Questionnaire (adapting PRESS questionnaire) • Data collection, and processing • Report and recommendations • Establishing a permanent mechanism to produce the C-PRESS PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
F Dissemination • Presentation to the National Council of Statistics • Publish in the CSO web site, • Communicated to the PRESS team (PARIS21) PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
G Constraints • C-PRESS will face constraints identified in the PRESS process: • Variety of type of financing with different time frames and nomenclatures, difficulty to identify statistical components in wider project. • Size and number of actors of the national statistical system; • In addition: • Reporting on activities from partners not present in the country. PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
H Global uses of C-PRESS • Some pilot country comparisons show that PRESS underestimates the actual support. • In the future, with more and more country reports, aggregation will allow a more precise information on the global support to statistics development. • In the meantime, country reports will allow to measure PRESS coverage on the real support. PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center
Recommendations • Countries: to develop their reporting system on statistical development within NSDS, to launch reviews on public expenditures on statistics including C-PRESS, to review and update international sites on reporting, and to disseminate the reports on their web sites. • Donors: to inform their country representatives to participate and support country efforts to prepare C-PRESS, and to provide relevant and disaggregated information on support to statistics. • PARIS21: to finalize and disseminate the Guide on reporting, and to prepare a Guide on C-PRESS including nomenclatures, and to report annually on C-PRESS PARIS21 Seminar - OECD Conference Center