Improving Statistics for Measuring

Development Outcomes

Demand for Statistics from DFID Perspective• National data to inform and monitor country

[poverty reduction] strategies • Global monitoring of Progress towards the

Millennium Development Goals• Outcome Based Development, Managing for

Results, Millennium Challenge Account, DFID’s Public Services Agreement

Improving Statistics for Measuring Development Outcomes

Perceived Problems• Lack of country level statistics which are

timely, appropriate and good quality• Discrepancies between national statistics and

statistics present in global data bases • Discrepancies between statistics held by

international agencies• Implications

Improving Statistics for Measuring Development Outcomes

 Looking ahead - possible conference outcomes • Clear mutual understanding of specific

problems constraining the development community’s ability to monitor development outcomes

• Agreement on the issues which need to be addressed

• Roadmap leading to agreed action plan

Improving Statistics for Measuring

Development Outcomes

PARIS 21 task team:

• June 2002 WB round table meeting on results based management identified a need to improve national and international monitoring systems as a priority. Bank and Eurostat set up P21 task team with aim of identifying key actions and activities to improve both global and national data availability and use.

 • Study: To provide information on current national and international

statistical systems and practices to help the task team, and development community more widely, identify actions and activities needed to improve currently available statistics. Two elements to the study: International; six country studies. OPM contracted to carry out the international work and preliminary work on country studies