High-level forum on strategic planning for statistics: Bangkok, 6-8 June 2006
Advocacy for statistics
Presentation byPARIS21 Secretariat
High-level forum on strategic planning for statistics: Bangkok, 6-8 June 2006
High-level forum on strategic planning for statistics: Bangkok, 6-8 June 2006
Dev
elo
pin
g C
ou
ntr
ies
OE
CD
Co
un
trie
s an
d
Mu
ltil
ater
als
Policy makers Statisticians
Central Stat. Office, Sector Units, Central Banks, etc.
Ministers of Finance, Sector Ministers, etc.
Development Agencies, WB, IMF, RDB, etc.
OECD Statistics Office Mngers, UN Specialised Agencies; Stat. units in intl orgs
Partnership: PARIS21 Constituencies and Partnership: PARIS21 Constituencies and LinkagesLinkages
High-level forum on strategic planning for statistics: Bangkok, 6-8 June 2006
1. Policy makers and funders in developing countries
Key messages:• Role of statistics in improving development outcomes• Desirability of developing a culture of evidence-based
policy and decision-making• Integration of statistics into policy frameworks (PRSs,
SWAps, etc) • Need for better statistics and better use of statistics to
improve use of resources, including aid effectiveness • NSDSs as a coherence framework to organise the
development of their statistical system• Appropriate and sustained financing for statistics from
national budget
High-level forum on strategic planning for statistics: Bangkok, 6-8 June 2006
2. Policy makers and funders in OECD countries and multilateral
development agencies
Key messages:• Role of statistics in improving development outcomes • Integration of statistics into both national and donor
policies • Statistics needed to improve aid effectiveness• Need to support the design and implementation of
NSDSs • Financial and technical assistance, placed within the
context of NSDSs • Donors should coordinate better and harmonise their
reporting procedures with national systems
High-level forum on strategic planning for statistics: Bangkok, 6-8 June 2006
3. Statisticians and analysts in developing countries
Key messages:
• Role of statistics to under-pin development progress• Need to address the new key priorities for statistics• NSDSs to serve as a coherence framework for all
national/ official statistics and statistical programmes, however they are funded, including to coordinate donor programmes
High-level forum on strategic planning for statistics: Bangkok, 6-8 June 2006
4. Statisticians and analysts in OECD countries and multilateral
development agencies
Key messages:• Role of statistics in development and of new priorities for
statistics to under-pin development progress• Importance of NSDSs as a coherence framework and for
technical assistance to be provided within the context of NSDSs
• Donors and specialised agencies should be better coordinated; and should harmonise their reporting procedures with national systems
• OECD NSOs to provide more and better organised technical support to developing countries
High-level forum on strategic planning for statistics: Bangkok, 6-8 June 2006
Why statistics?
• If statistics improve and are used to inform decisions, policies are more likely to succeed
• Good statistics are essential for the design and management of national policy frameworks such as PRS and for MDG monitoring
• Better statistics also help donors by informing aid allocation and by monitoring implementation and outcomes
• Investment in statistics will pay for itself many times over by improving the efficiency of resource allocation
High-level forum on strategic planning for statistics: Bangkok, 6-8 June 2006
Why now?
• Greater emphasis on evidence and managing for results
• More sophisticated policy analysis• Advances in ICT• Donor alignment and harmonisation increase
costs of making faulty policy decisions
High-level forum on strategic planning for statistics: Bangkok, 6-8 June 2006
Statistics through the policy cycle
• Need for careful and rigorous analysis, based on good quality and transparent statistics, throughout the policy cycle
• Statistics needed to :– Identify issues– Design policies– Forecast the future– Monitor policy implementation – Evaluate policy impact
High-level forum on strategic planning for statistics: Bangkok, 6-8 June 2006
Advocacy: Currently Available Tools • Making the Case: National Strategy for the Development of Statistics• Measuring Up to the Measurement Problem by Chris Scott• Better Statistics, Better Policies, Better Development Outcomes
High-level forum on strategic planning for statistics: Bangkok, 6-8 June 2006
• Films: (1) Measuring the Change in World Poverty, (2) La Statistique au Service du Développement, and (3) Food and Agricultural Statistics in support of Development
Order free copies from [email protected]
Advocacy: Currently Available Tools
High-level forum on strategic planning for statistics: Bangkok, 6-8 June 2006
Thank you!