PARIS21 Progress Report Reporting Period: May – September 2008 PARIS21 Secretariat

1. PARIS21 Progress Report Reporting Period: May – September 2008 PARIS21 Secretariat

2. Overall Tracking of Progress • Six monthly reports on progress of Secretariat activities and outputs. (this presentation) • Annual reports on progress of the wider partnership towards its outputs and outcomes. (presented later) • Three-to-five yearly evaluations of progress towards the partnership’s goal and purpose. (presented later)

3. A. Regional Programmes • Participation in various international and regional meetings • Support to NSDS processes or including statistical issues at donor consultative groups (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Guinea, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, Nicaragua, and Tanzania) • Support to Regional Events (SADC Statistics Committee, the UNESCO seminar on education statistics, and a special NSDS day for Caribbean countries)

4. B. Advocacy • Further development of Statistics Advocacy Toolkit (START) • Assistance to the following countries on producing advocacy booklets & NSDS synthesis documents: • Cameroon • Comoros • Côte d’Ivoire • Ethiopia • Guinea • Mozambique • Niger • Senegal • Tanzania • Togo

5. C. Partnership • Organisation of a side event at the Accra HLF, launching of SRF • Partner Report on Support to Statistics (PRESS) 2008 Round – to be presented separately • Update / Printing of the Partnership Directory • Facilitation of Developing Country Statisticians in Relevant Events • Preparations for 2009 Consortium meeting – to be presented separately

6. D. Reporting • Update of country NSDS sheets & NSDS website – to be presented separately • Production of a toolkit on country reporting

7. E. Studies & Knowledge Development • Production of new guidance: • Statistics and M&E • Good Practices of an NSDS document • Financing and costing NSDS implementation • Integrating data archiving processes into NSDSs • Overview of Evaluations of Large-Scale Statistical Capacity Building Programmes • Development of Study Programme

8. F. Task Teams • Virtual Statistical System – to be presented separately • Sub-national Statistics • Fragile States

9. G. Management • Recruitment of Secretariat Manager • Organisation of Bureau / Steering Committee meetings

10. H. Satellite Programmes • International Household Survey Network (IHSN) • Accelerated Data Program (ADP) Both will be the subject of a separate presentation today.

11. Overall Tracking of Progress • Six monthly reports on progress of Secretariat activities and outputs. • Annual reports on progress of the wider partnership towards its outputs and outcomes. • Three-to-five yearly evaluations of progress towards the partnership’s goal and purpose. (presented later)

12. Tracking progress of PARIS21 Outputs and Outcomes • Baseline study was presented to June 2008 Steering Committee meeting • This is the first annual report • Follows format of baseline study agreed by SC • Paper shows separate presentation and discussion of each of the four indicators • Overview/ summary

13. 1. Countries who have designed and implemented NSDSs • Number of IDA countries implementing NSDSs increased from 22 to 37 since baseline in 2006 • Accordingly, number designing or awaiting adoption of NSDSs decreased from 37 to 23 • 21 African countries now have NSDSs (increased from 10) and 19 are either designing or planning to do an NSDS • NSDS progress report discusses issues for the successful implementation of NSDSs • Peer reviews will consider quality issues

14. 2. Technical cooperation flows consistent with NSDSs • PRESS baseline shows that annual disbursements on statistical capacity building have increased between 2006 and 2007 • And amounts to Africa have increased since 2004/05 (LRE) • Amounts consistent with NSDSs are uncertain, ranging from 2%-73% of commitment amounts, depending on how flexible the criteria are set • PRESS report is considered later in the agenda

15. 3. Improved capacities to produce, analyze and use statistics • World Bank’s Statistical Capacity Indicator • Baseline IDA countries in 2006 • Three dimensions: statistical practice, data collection, indicator availability • Overall improvement in 2007, but fall in 2008: • Caused by decline in the number of SS African countries who have re-based their national accounts and CPI in last ten years (statistical practice) • And in the number of countries who have conducted poverty surveys since 2004 (data collection) • Indicator availability shows improvement in 2008

16. 4. Strengthened national data on MDGs • Countries with at least two data points for six MDG indicators, excluding modelled data • Since 2006, overall improvement from 56% to 71% in countries with at least two data points on: • Net primary education enrolment and gender parity in enrolments and, especially, in data on people living with HIV (increase in 2007: MICS, DHS in 2006/2007) • Countries with two data points for population using improved drinking water sources (increase in 2008) • But still only 35% of countries have two national data points for $1 a day

17. Summary • Generally the trend is positive: • IDA countries implementing NSDSs has increased • Increase in TC for statistical capacity building • Increase in countries with national data for MDGs • But with some reservations: • Stalling of Statistical Capacity Indicator • Reduction in countries carrying out poverty surveys • And some measurement issues: • Quality and successful implementation of NSDSs • Inadequate data on whether TC flows are consistent with NSDSs