Opening session: the need to improve statistics for measuring development results

The purpose of this session is to frame the issues for discussion during the meeting in the wider international agenda of measuring and monitoring development goals. Speakers will review the measurement and monitoring agenda of the Development Committee, the United Nations, and the European Commission. The session will conclude with a brief review of work to improve statistical systems commissioned since the June 2002 Roundtable on “Measuring, Monitoring and Managing for Development Results”,

Ian Kinniburgh, Director, Development Policy and Planning Office, UN (DESA)

Jürgen Heimann, Head of ACP Statistical Cooperation, Eurostat

Joanne Salop, Vice President, Global Monitoring Secretariat, World Bank

Roger Edmunds, Acting Chief Statistician, DFID

2. The demand for statistics

This session will look at how the demand for statistical data has changed as a result of national and international initiatives, how well these new demands are aligned with the supply of statistics, the response of the national and international statistical system; and remaining gaps and problems. What are the key issues for international organizations, national governments, bilateral donors?

Diana Alarcon, Poverty Assessment and Indicators Specialist, Bureau for Development, Policy, Social Development Group, UNDP

Ellen Goldstein, Adviser, Results Secretariat, World Bank

Richard Leete, Manager, Technical and Policy Division, UNFPA

San Sy Than, Director General, National Institute of Statistics, Cambodia

Jose Carvajal, Executive Director, National Institute of Statistics, Bolivia

Oleg Cara, Deputy Director, Department for Statistics and Sociology, Moldova

3. Mapping the international statistical system

This session will discuss current organization of the international statistical system, including the agreed responsibilities of the major international institutions for collecting and disseminating indicators. There will be a report of the work completed by the PARIS21 Task Team on documenting the existing statistical reporting processes of countries, and the data collection and dissemination practices by international agencies, including the various lines of accountability for data quality. Participants will be invited to discuss the initial findings of the Task Team and to give direction on the next steps, including how the results should be used to identify and implement concrete actions to improve support to national and international data systems.

Robert Johnston, UN Statistics Division (DESA)

Eric Swanson, Program Manager, Development Data Group, World Bank

4. Assessment of country capacity

This session will look at the major gaps in statistical capacity at the country level, and will investigate some of the issues arising from the initial work on the country case studies of the Task Team (Malawi and Pakistan). It will seek to identify key data issues, clarify how they relate to statistical capacity, and how quality and capacity can be measured.

Oxford Policy Management (report of first stages of country case studies for Pakistan and Malawi)

Chris Murray, Executive Director, Evidence and Information for Policy, WHO

Charles Machinjili, Commissioner of Statistics, National Statistical Office, Malawi

Zia Abbasi, Statistical Adviser, IMF, Cambodia

Mushtaq Malik, Economic Minister, Embassy of Pakistan

Ellen Starbird, Social Science Analyst, USAID

Lucie LaLiberte, Department of Statistics, IMF

Diana Alarcon, Poverty Assessment and Indicators Specialist, Bureau for Development, Policy, Social Development Group, UNDP

Chris Murray, Executive Director, Evidence and Information for Policy, WHO

Jill Mathis, USAID

Carol Medlin, UCSF/Gates Foundation

Doug Lynd, Senior Program Coordinator, Institute of Statistics

(UIS), UNESCO

Barbara Bruns, Knowledge Coordinator, Education and Reform

Management, World Bank

Audrey-Marie Schuh Moore and David Guemes, Academy for

Educational Development

Session 6 continued

Taking a coordinated approach to household surveys

Kinnon Scott, Senior Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank

Haeduck Lee, Senior Economist, Latin America and Caribbean Poverty Sector, World Bank

ILO study of aggregation methods

Sylvester Young, Director, Bureau of Statistics, ILO; Jeff Johnson, Chief, Employment Products, ILO; Tim Holt, Professor, University of Southampton

World Bank Infrastructure Data Initiative

Antonio Estache, Senior Adviser, Infrastructure Vice Presidency, World Bank; Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia, Private Sector Development Specialist, Infrastructure Vice Presidency, World Bank

Corridor presentations in MC2-850: STATCAP (World Bank), International Comparison Program, Development Data Platform (World Bank)

7. Next steps

This session will aim to identify the key elements of an action plan going forward, drawing on the discussions in the preceding sessions (which will be summarized and presented by rapporteurs), and will include a discussion of the results expected from the PARIS21 Task Team before its next meeting in October.

Roger Edmunds, Acting Chief Statistician, DFID

Gilles Hervio, Head of Unit, Economic Cooperation and PRSP Process

European Commission

Antoine Simonpietri, Manager, PARIS2

Corridor presentations and demonstrations (throughout meeting)

New tools for improving the measurement and monitoring of results:

• Development Data Platform (World Bank)
• DevInfo (UN)
• Development Gateway (Development Gateway Foundation)

• PC-AXIS and PX-MAP (Statistics Norway)
• World Development Chart (UNDP)