Regional workshop on exchange of experiences between African countries

1. Regional workshop on exchange of experiences between African countries Communication from AFRISTAT 23-25 June 2014, Bamako

2. Presentation of AFRISTAT Creation: Treaty signed on 21 September 1993 Activity: Started in 1997 Headquarters: Bamako, Mali Status: International Organisation Number of member states: 22

3. Presentationof AFRISTAT

4. Presentation of AFRISTAT Governance • AFRISTAT Council of Ministers - Ministers of Finance and Ministers of Statistics 2. Management Committee - Managing Directors of NSI, Sub-regional integration institutions, Central Banks, AFRISTAT partners 3. Managing Director of AFRISTAT, plus a deputy 4. Scientific council (Consultative body)

5. Presentation of AFRISTAT Financial resources • AFRISTAT Fund 10-year fund financed by contributions from member states and France 2. Development partners (for projects) AfDB, UEMOA, ECCAS/CEMAC ECOWAS, ACBF, Paris21, World Bank 3. Annual Budget: an average of 1.7 billion FCFA

6. Presentation of AFRISTAT Human Resources: 35 • AFRISTAT experts: 21 Permanent : 14 Project : 4 French technical assistance: 3 2.Technical support staff: 14 3. Associated experts (when needed)

7. Presentation of AFRISTAT Main objectives: • Capacity building and technical assistance in statistics and economics; • Coordinating the NSI in member states; • Harmonising methods, concepts and nomenclatures; • Implementing reliable and pertinent information systems; • Managing regional databases.

8. AFRISTAT’s role Provide technical support for: • Statistical capacity building programmes for NSS and particularly the statistical output needed to implement national policies and take into account the MDGs; • Harmonisation programmes within the framework of the statistical systems of Regional Integration Communities. • AFRISTAT’s Strategic Work Programme (SWP) : • The second SWP covers the 2011-2015 period

9. Drawing up the SWP • Context of profound changes in statistical demand, particularly: • Return of development planning; • PRSP-MDG: Need for formulation, monitoring and evaluation; • Need for economic integration; • Monitoring emerging trends; • Need for a long-term vision

10. Success stories today A) Statistical harmonisation between countries • Statistical coordination and programming:strategic planning guided by results-based management (improving the logical framework of the NSDS); • Nomenclatures adopted by Regulation at the Council of Ministers: • NAEMA: nomenclature for activities by AFRISTAT Member States; • NOPEMA: nomenclature of products from AFRISTAT Member States.

11. Success stories today A) Statistical harmonisation between countries (cont.) • National accounting • Guide to drawing up national accounts according to SCN93 now available, the version according to SCN2008 is being finalised; • Methodologies for drawing up quarterly accounts; • ERETES, the tool for drawing up accounts, is available and compatible with SCN2008; • Guide for analysing the results of national accounts.

12. Success stories today A) Statistical harmonisation between countries (cont.) • Consumer pricing • Consumer nomenclature (NCOA) derived from COICOP; • Availability of harmonised methodology and a recent production tool for HICP: Phoenix-UEMOA; • Definition and description of the scope (reference population, field and nomenclature), sample (basket and observation points), baseline data (baseline year), collection methods, data processing(tools used) and publications; • Indices made available according to a predefined schedule.

13. Success stories today A) Statistical harmonisation between countries (cont.) • Concepts and definitions of indicators for the employment market and the informal sector: • Preparation of a handbook of standards, concepts and definitions of indicators on employment and the informal sector; • Support for the implementation of harmonised systems for monitoring employment and the informal sector (1.2.3 type survey). • Agricultural statistics • Methodologies governing vegetable production and herd parameters.

14. Success stories today A) Statistical harmonisation between countries (cont.) • Socio-demographic Statistics • Reference framework for monitoring the PRSP and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) ; • Information system on the employment market; • Applied research in the areas of population census, etc.

15. Success stories today B) Capacity building for member states • Preparation of professional training programmes; • Preparation of training manuals for capacity building of member states (social statistics, descriptive statistics, polling, etc.); • Data processing to improve the quality of output from member states.

16. Success stories today C) Involvement in the NSDS • Support for drawing up NSDS that are fit for purpose, particularly the needs relating to the steering and evaluation of PRSP in Member States: • For example, these could include: Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Comoros, Gabon, Mali, Mauritania, Guinea Bissau, Burkina Faso, etc.; • Support for drawing up annual statistical production programmes (Burundi, Congo, Niger, Mali, etc.);

17. Success stories today C) Involvement in the NSDS • Production of a Guide to the Monitoring and Evaluation of NSDS Results; • Support for drawing up a roadmap (Benin, Niger, Togo, Congo, etc.); • Mid-term evaluation of NSDS (Burundi, Comoros); • Support for peer evaluation (Burkina Faso, Niger, Benin, Congo, Senegal and Mauritania); • Institutional Communication: “du Chiffre à l’information”.

18. Challenges of tomorrow... • Consolidation of achievements and continued implementation of regulations (nomenclatures, company statistics); • Strengthening of the ERETES tool for national accounting and search for funding to produce it as an open source programme • Launch of new projects on new themes (climate change, gender, quarterly accounts, SAM) as part of the medium term work programme for 2011-2015 ; • Development and/or consolidation of partnerships with other African institutions in terms of harmonisation;

19. Challenges of tomorrow... • Quality approach (traceability): Training to be organised at the sub-regional level (already carried out in Mali in 2013). • Help to improve dissemination (draw up a consensual dissemination policy, Open Data initiative in collaboration with the AfDB and Paris21. • Support member states in the implementation of actions related to the ratification of the African Statistical Charter.

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