The Pan-African Statistics Programme (PAS) November 2016

PAS: stakeholders European Commission: EUROSTAT: Contracting Authority African Union Commission: Main beneficiary is Statistics Division at AUC Other beneficiaries: RECs, NSIs of member states Implementation Agency: European consortium led by Expertise France

PAS: objective and purpose Overall objective: to support African integration through better availability and quality of statistical information facilitating decision-making and policy monitoring Purpose: to improve the production and dissemination of good quality statistics in Africa to support the AU in strengthening its institutional capacity to provide comparable official statistics needed to underpin the AU integration process and measure African progress towards global goals

PAS: expected results (1) Enhanced capacity, and a more harmonised approach, to the production of good quality statistics for the AU” Provision of methodological and administrative support to statistical working groups, in particular to 5 "Specific Technical Groups" proposed by the SHaSA: National Accounts, International Trade, Labour, Migration Sustainable development indicators, Other statistical domains Governance, peace, security Climate Change

PAS: expected results (2) Continued Creation of a data base / data warehouse and support for tools serving enhanced production (e.g. ERETES, Eurotrace) IT-specification for revised version of ERETES Enhanced dissemination approaches and increased dissemination of quality data in Africa Website of the AU Statistical institute Publications and info-graphics Two dissemination workshops, one PR seminar

PAS: expected results (3) Strengthening the institutional capacity for Statistics in Africa Technical assistance in institutional capacity building Establishing the new AU Statistical Institute Support to ASS (RECs and NSIs) in institutional capacity building Adapt and implement capacity assessment frameworks Support to foster closer cooperation and networking between ASS key actors Administrative support to annual ASS meetings Support AUSTAT in reporting to AGSHA, CoDGs and AU Ministers

PAS: the project team Eurostat Project management: Expertise France Claudia Junker, Head of unit A3 "Statistical cooperation“ Project management: Expertise France Clara Guilhem, Project Manager, France Key experts Team leader: Maxime Bonkoungou, Burkina Faso Key expert 2: Bernd Struck, Germany Key expert 3: Guest Musuamera, Botswana Various Non Key Experts Statistics Division at AUC Dr. Younoussa Imani, Head Nougbodohoue Samson Bel-Aube, Focal point

PAS: timeline First launch: November 2015 presentation of PAS to RECs Start: officially January 2016, in fact March 2016 Duration: 42 months Past and present activities Various short term missions of NKEs for assessing the state of play of the STGs and for proposals for work plan WS on National Accounts July 2016 (En) and October 2016 (Fr) Training on Eurotrace software for external trade statistics Report on the Pan-African Statistical Institute Designing work plan up to September 2017

PAS support to National Accounts National Accounts/ AGNA is one of the 5 STGs supported by PAS. The support is given to two main subjects: training in concepts, methods and compilation of National Accounts Support in using ERETES as a tool for National Accounts including the IT-revamping of it Indirect support is coming through activities dedicated to statistical domains with proximity to NA, especially trade statistics and labour statistics. Synergies may also arise from other topics of PAS activities (SDG indicators, publications, website, data base, quality improvements)

PAS work plan of next 12 months for NA Concepts, methods and compilation Workshop / training on the implementation of 2008 SNA in Africa, done in July (En) and October (Fr) Workshop / training with AUC and RECs on SNA 2008 and supra-national compilations, March 2017 Wrap-up meeting with RECs on status of implementation of SNA 2008 in the countries, April 2017 (b2b with AGNA) Technical Assistance on the implementation of SNA 2008 to selected countries (March, April, June, September 2017) ERETES Conduct and analyse user opinion survey (December 2016)

PAS work plan (ERETES) continued Workshop to validate the improvements of ERETES (March 2017) Make consultation and report on the progress to AGNA and Eurostat (ERETES Steering Committee), April 2017 (b2B with AGNA) Training for trainers for ERETES, April 2017 Carry out a feasibility study for preferred options to rewrite ERETES, from June 2017 onward Prepare complete technical specifications to rewrite ERETES, from July 2017 onward Training of end users in potential countries (beginners in ERETES), starting with two of them in July & August 2017