Training on Monitoring and Statistical Systems

Course Background (91kb PDF)

Content:

• Purpose
• Structure
• Key features
  • Public good nature of statistics
  • Data quality
  • Statistics as an accountability process
  • Balancing supply and demand
  • Setting priorities
  • Need for integrity and independence
  • Legislative mandate
  • Fundamental principles

Presentation: National Statistical Systems: Principles, Organization and Activities (517kb PDF)

Resources:

• PRSP Sourcebook: Strengthening Statistical Systems
• Building Statistical Capacity to Monitor Development Progress (111kb PDF)
• UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics

Content:

• Review of experience in PRSP countries, by Francesca Bastagli (PRMPR)
• Experience from India and Zambia, by Valerie Kozel (AFTH1)
• Learning from Uganda poverty monitoring system, by Keith Mackay (OEDPK)
• Monitoring the MDGs in Thailand, by Kaspar Richter (EASPR)

Presentation: Poverty Monitoring Systems (1.5mb PDF)

Resources:

• Poverty Monitoring Systems
• PRSP Sourcebook: Monitoring and Evaluation

Content:

• Opportunities and challenges facing statistical systems
• Assessing capacity
• Topics and issues:
  • GDDS and use as assessment and planning tool
  • Data quality assessment and DQAF
• Indicators of statistical capacity building

Presentation: Assessing Statistical Systems (703kb PDF)

Resources:

• General Data Dissemination System (GDDS)
• A Framework for Assessing the Quality of Income Poverty Statistics
• PARIS21: National Strategies for the Development of Statistics

Content:

• Different approaches:
  • Strategies for statistical systems and statistical offices
  • Statistical Master Plans
  • Managing the process
  • Implementation
  • Defining baselines and measuring progress
• Financing: TFSCB, STATCAP, and Statistical Master Plans
• Next steps

Presentation: Strategies & Plans (741kb PDF)

Exercise: The Statistical System of Nonumberland (11kb PDF)

Resources:

• STATCAP — A new lending program to support more efficient and effective statistical systems in developing countries.
• Trust Funds for Statistical Capacity Building (TFSCB)

Content:

• Ukraine (Neil Fantom/Svetlana Budagovskaya)
• Burkina Faso (Ghislaine Delaine/Naoko Watanabe)
• Kenya (Lucas Ojambo/Graham Eele)
• Yemen

Panel discussion with STATCAP Task Team Leaders and Team Members

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