1. The Pan-African Statistics Programme (PAS)
November 2016

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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)

10. 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)

11. 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