The emerging Post-2015 Development Agenda: friend or foe of National Statistical Systems (NSS)?SADC Regional Workshop: Better dialogue on statistics for better development results14 October 2013Maputo, Mozambique

Johannes JüttingPARIS21

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1. WHAT LESSONS FROM THE MDG PROCESS ?2. WHAT PRIORITIES ARE EMERGING FOR POST-2015?

3. FRIEND OR FOE OF NSS?

National Statistical Systems & Post-2015

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1. WHAT LESSONS FROM THE MDG PROCESS ?

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Increased data use & enhancing status of data.

Great strides in fostering co-ordination (evidence: BAPS, PRESS, regional, within country-donor partnerships).

NSDSs design and implementation.

Dissemination of micro-data and co-ordination of surveys (ADP and IHSN achievements).

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Achievements

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Misalignment: global monitoring needs and national systems

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Some statistics left behind…and communication challenges

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Lessons learnt MDG monitoring overall positive impact on

national capacity…— More surveys, data and statistics available — Countries following up after donors left— Statistical capacity efforts – NSDS as

strategic approach

…but created some new problems— National data often not used— Methodological issues – reconciliation,

estimation— “Crowding out”? – donors (dis?)incentives

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2. WHAT PRIORITIES ARE EMERGING FOR POST-2015?

New goals aren’t being negotiated yet

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Special Event on Post-2015 at 68th

UNGA (Sept 2013)

call for one set of universal goals for sustainable

development

OWG on Sustainable

DevelopmentLaunched at RIO+20, will

delivery final report at 69th UNGA

Committee of Experts on SD

Financing

Launched at RIO+20, will delivery final report at 69th

UNGA

69th UNGA(Sept 2014)

Official launch of intergovernmental

negotiations of Post-2015 framework

70th UNGA (Sept 2015)

Special High-level Event on Post-2015 framework

WANTED: a Data Revolution“A true data revolution would draw on existing and

new sources of data to fully integrate statistics into

decision making, promote open access to, and use

of, data and ensure increased support for

statistical systems.”

NSSs will be in the spotlight: a call to actions from the highest level

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Call for data revolution comes from Busan Action Plan on Statistics, that seeks to :

Fully integrate statistics in decision makingPromote open access to and use of dataIncrease resources for statistical systems

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Sound familiar?

Some priorities are emerging, with important consequences for NSSs

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69th UNGA

For example: More use of national data for new goals:

— Jobs— Education (potentially on quality)

Disaggregation of existing data to measure: — Getting to zero poverty — Impact on women and girls— Impact on inequality

New indicators for new areas:— Sustainable development— Governance

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3. FRIEND OR FOE OF NSS?

National ownership, benefit the people, build on what we have

Reduces the risk of “crowding out / in” ; unsustainable financing

Better data, better policies? Innovations not only in data but also in capacity

building e.g. skill development

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Strengthening national capacity is a key element of any data revolution

New data needs, e.g. as outlined above New institutional arrangements/ opening up Use of new technology

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New demands for NSS

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From dialogue to partnerships?

YOU need to get engaged on various levels – national, regional and international!

For NSSs, key debates are: — Short-term need for baseline vs. long-term

need for measurement capacity— Data for national/sub-national decision

marking and targeting vs. international comparison

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Friend or Foe? We don’t know, yet

Political will to support statistics at an historic high

Public/ popular support also growing fast with new actors keen to support good data - Foundations, CSOs, private companies

Statistics needed to manage emerging challenges like financial stability and climate change

New tools/approaches create new opportunities(19

Conclusion: Historic window of opportunity to garner support for

NSS

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