Implementation Strategy for 2008 SNA

1. Implementation Strategy for 2008 SNA Information Structure for Coordination, Monitoring Progress, and Facilitating Cooperation Manik Shrestha IMF, Statistics Department

2. Need for an Information Structure • To ensure that the roles of national agencies (recipient countries), bilateral agencies, and regional and international organizations are clear and their actions are complementary. • Three elements (ISWGNA Implementation paper): • Coordination: Timing and sequencing of events. • Monitoring: Assessment of the efficiency of TA programs, evaluation of lessons, and effective use of resources. • Reporting: Communicating operational issues and progress to stakeholders.

3. Principles • Use existing and well-established information and coordination mechanisms (rather than inventing new). • Combine information on countries’ priorities (reflecting their ownership of the programs) and information on donors’ activities (supporting countries’ efforts in implementing the 2008 SNA). • Combine information on programs (for coordinating programs and monitoring implementation) and on quality improvements (for evaluating outcomes). • Take into account the varying needs and implementation goals at national, sub-regional, and regional levels.

4. Four elements of the information structure 1. Implementation milestones • For 2008 SNA. • Need to reflect varying needs and capacity at country and regional levels. • A guide to countries for formulating their plans. • An instrument for characterizing the levels of national accounts development in different countries and at different points in time. • A basis for grouping types and scopes of capacity building supports. (See ISWGNA report to the 29th session of the UNSC on the 1993 SNA implementation milestones http://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/doc97/edoc12.htm)

5. Four elements of the information structure 2. Information on country’s plans and priorities • The implementation process is the responsibility of each individual country. • Each country should take the ownership of programs for 2008 SNA implementation within the regional/subregional goals. • Each country should proactively seek available resources at bilateral, regional, and international levels as well as use the resources efficiently.

6. Four elements of the information structure 2. Information on country’s plans and priorities • Countries should use General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) framework to provide information about their plans for 2008 SNA implementation and needs for technical assistance, training and financing. (See http://dsbb.imf.org/Applications/web/gdds/gddshome/)

7. Four elements of the information structure 2. Information on country’s plans and priorities • GDDS has two main objectives: • Frameworks for statistical development and recommendations on good practice, based on current practices of agencies compiling and disseminating data in countries. Recommended good practices provide guidance for the overall development of macroeconomic, financial, and socio-demographic data. • A valuable source of information for bilateral and multilateral providers of technical assistance, and a tool to enhance cooperation between such providers.

8. Four elements of the information structure 2. Information on country’s plans and priorities • The GDDS metadata includes a separate section for “Plans for Improvements” covering following subsections: • Recent Improvements • Short-term plans • Medium-term plans • Technical Assistance/Financing Needs/Other Prerequisites • Short-term • Medium-term • Recently, “Plans for improvements” are classified using DQAF. • 100 GDDS participants. (64 SDDS subscribers)

9. Four elements of the information structure 3. Information on donors activities • Partner Report on Support to Statistics (PRESS) • Coordinated and conducted by PARIS21. • 2008 results (http://www.paris21.org/pages/other/?id_news=113) • Endorsed by the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities.

10. Four elements of the information structure 3. Information on donors activities • Partner Report on Support to Statistics (PRESS) • Collects and analyzes information on support to statistical development by financial and technical partners. • Permits an easier exchange of information on statistical activities carried out and planned in recipient countries. • Intended to collect information from both national and international stakeholders (could be a comprehensive source of information on statistical activities of donors and providers of technical assistance).

11. Four elements of the information structure 3. Information on donors activities • Partner Report on Support to Statistics (PRESS) • Uses the Classification of Statistical Activities (as used by UNECE) to group supports on statistics development. • Includes all aspects of statistical production process and could be regrouped to the structure of statistical production process. (See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/accsub/2005docs-6th/sa-2005-11-ECE%20Classification.pdf)

12. Four elements of the information structure 4. Information on quality and outcomes • Note: • Milestones indicates scope of a country’s implementation of SNA. • GDDS provides a country’s plans for improvements and its assessment of financing and technical assistance needs. • PRESS provides information on donors' statistical activities. • They together provide necessary quantitative information on programs for SNA implementation. • Quality and outcomes are assessed through Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF)

13. Four elements of the information structure 4. Information on quality and outcomes • Data Quality Assessment Framework • The DQAF identifies quality-related features of governance of statistical systems, statistical processes, and statistical products. It is rooted in the UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics and grew out of the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) and GDDS. • The DQAF captures all building blocks of the statistical production process and the elements of the classification of statistical activities relevant for SNA implementation. (See for DQAF http://dsbb.imf.org/Applications/web/dqrs/dqrsdqaf/)

14. Four elements of the information structure 4. Information on quality and outcomes • Data Quality Assessment Framework • The DQAF provides a structure for assessing existing practices against best practices, including internationally accepted methodologies. It has proved to be valuable for at least three groups of users. • To guide IMF staff on the use of data in policy evaluation, preparing the data module of Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSCs), and designing technical assistance. • To guide country efforts e.g., to prepare self-assessments. • To guide data users in evaluating data for policy analysis, forecasts, and economic performance. • DQAF has six broad dimensions broken down to 22 elements that group 51 indicators. Each indicator has data-set specific focal issues and key points. • More than 100 ROSCs completed.

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