1. SECRETARIAT WORK PROGRAMME 2009 PARIS21 Steering Committee meeting OECD Conference Centre 6 November 2008

2. INTRODUCTION Overall programme 2009-2010 Approved during the former SC in June 2008 Proposed work programme 2009: Updated Taking into account priorities and new orientations

3. OUTLINE OF 2009 WORK PROGRAMME (1) A- COUNTRY ACTIVITIES NSDS implementation • Peer reviews • Advocacy • Statistical reporting B- REGIONAL OR SPECIFIC PROGRAMMES • Arab States • Island states • Fragile States(DECISION 3) (ref. following presentation)

4. OUTLINE OF 2009 WORK PROGRAMME (2) C -GLOBAL REPORTING, STUDIES, TASK TEAMS • Ensuring reporting on NSDS progress • Donor’s reporting: PRESS (ref. morning presentation) • Launching three new studies D- MANAGEMENT PARIS21 evaluation (DECISION 2) PARIS21 Consortium(ref. following presentation) Funding Next Steering Committee(DECISION 5)

5. A Country activities (1) Facilitating the implementation (or design) of NSDS • Focus on less-developed countries in Africa (fragile states) • Launching new activities in Asia and Caribbean • Strengthening the overall statistical system (support to National Statistical Councils) • Encouraging national partnerships for funding statistics (ex: Mali) • Target : at least 15 new countries covered Consolidating the Peer Review approach • Anglophone Africa: three sets of countries • Francophone Africa: a first set of countries (Niger, Burkina Faso)

6. A Country activities (2) Providing ad-hoc support on advocacy • Focus on less-developed countries in Africa • Enlarging support to Asia, Latin America and Caribbean • Specific grant on advocacy in 6 countries • On the basis of the Advocacy Toolkit • Target of 25 countries for 2009 Encouraging statistical reporting at national level • Country reporting guidelines available • Support to National Councils of Statistics (portals on statistical systems) • Target of 2 countries for 2009

7. B Regional activities (1) Arab States • Maghreb workshop in December 2008 • 4th Arab Forum in Cairo May 2009 Island states Specific issue of statistical capacity building in islands and small states • Workshop Caribbean-Pacific as side meeting of UNSC 2009? • NSDS workshop for the Caribbean June 2009 • High-level policy makers and statisticians seminar in the Caribbean

8. C Global reporting, studies and task-teams Reporting • Regular production of NSDS progress reporting tables • Donor’s reporting: PRESS (ref. seminar and morning presentations) Studies • Statistics and governance • HR and training policies in the framework of NSDS • Strategic management textbook • Finalizing the on-going studies Task-Teams • VSS (presentation to follow) • Additional guidance on Intersect? • Training in Africa: under the umbrella of ACBF • Sub-national statistics: ADB leading

9. D Management (1) Evaluation • Within the framework of the tracking process of the PARIS21 partnership • Would be useful to have the results as main input for the Consortium • Proposed to launch it beginning of 2009 (rather than 2010 after the consortium) • DECISION 2 Consortium (ref. following presentation) Funding • Deepened relations with DAC delegations and outside OECD Next Steering Committee: 28-29 May 2009 PARIS • DECISION 5

10. Organizational arrangements for 2009 PARIS21 Secretariat Manager Country and regional operations: • Deputy Manager • 2 Desk-Officers • Communications Officer for Advocacy Partnership: • Project Manager Studies-Task Teams • Project Manager Consortium Organization • Project Manager Reporting Administrative-Financial-IT Support • 3.5 Administrative Assistants • 0.2 IT support