1. EIF Tier-2 Project (Component B):
Ministry of Industry and Commerce
Department of Industry and Handicraft
EIF Tier-2 Project (Component B):
Strengthening Industrial Statistics in the Lao PDR
The PRC Meeting 10th November 2016
Chair and co-chair;
Representatives from all the implementing agencies.
My name is………, from the Department of Industry and Handicraft, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the implementing agency for the project’s Component B entitled Strengthening Industrial Statistics in the Lao PDR.

2. Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs)
Lao are enjoy a high rate of economics growth
Growth without plan lead into unbalance growth
Plan without data & statistics lead to wrong direction
Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics in Lao PDR.

3. Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
Objective
Building capacity to produce international compatible industrial statistics and policy formulation
Produce industrial statistics
Industrial policy formulation
DoIH continues producing timely industrial statistics

4. Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
Goal
MoIC by DoIH have a unit and staff with capability to produce industrial statistics, analysis, formulate industrial policy
Adequate IT infrastructure for industrial statistics developments
Main statistics for industrial economics planning produced
Report on analytical and policy on industrial developments
Quarterly Industrial Index Production (IIP) produced

5. Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
1st year, 1 half
Analysis organization structure, environments, infrastructure of MoIC and DoIH
Analysis industrial economics database and statistics exiting
Create action plan
Equipments procured (computer, laptop, printer and accessories)
Statistics team setup (4 DoIH officer)
Designed registered manufacturing establishments questionnaire

6. Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
List of equipments provided to DoIH head office + 18 provincial
Item
Quantity
Desktop Computer 22
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
Notebook Computer 4
Printer 19
Projector 1
Photo copy
External Hard Disk 3

7. Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
1st year, 2 half
Conducted registered manufacturing establishments survey for listing

8. Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
2st year, 1 half
2015 industry survey
Survey frame designed
census on Large + Medium ( =1,249)
sampling on Small + Micro ( =600)
Questionnaire designed & produced
Enumerator team and supervisor team setup
56 DoIH provincial officer enumerator
5 DoIH + 1 LSB officer supervisor
Three regions enumerator training (Vientiane, Sawannakhet, Luangphabang)
Supervisor training in Vientiane

9. Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
Questionnaire design to support
Sustainable development indicators (SDGs);
Policy formulation
Manufacturing Value Added
Supply and Use Tables

10. Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
2016 Industry survey purpose
To collect the information on the existing manufacturing establishment organizational structure and to generate the statistics for the formal sector of economic activities according to the Lao Standard Industrial Classification (LSIC).
To identify the production of goods and services in the reference year and to generate, analyze and present the goods and services statistics in the tabular form according to Central Product Classification (CPC).
To produce the employment statistics.
To provide the investment in manufacturing establishment in the country such as investment in fixed assets, raw material consumption, fuel and electricity consumption and sales of goods, stocks etc.
To provide the estimate of output and input in manufacturing establishment
To provide the information on investment in control of environment pollution
To identify the problems and its effects in the manufacturing industries.

11. Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
2st year, 2 half
Develop manufacturing establishments database system
Develop industry survey database system
Database user training
Database system administrator training
2015 Industry survey
Survey conduct
Data entry
Statistics and tabulation designed
Statistics report produce

12. Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
3st year, 1st quarter
IIP Survey design
Sample frame design
Industry and commodity selection
Listing of sample
Weight calculation
Data entry and database design
Questionnaire design
Data collection process and mechanism design

13. Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
3st year, quarter 2-3
IIP survey
Enumerator and supervisor team setup
Enumerator & Supervisor & Data entry operator training
Questionnaire and manual produced
Data collection, tabulation
Industrial Index Production produced
Industrial development report produce using available industrial statistics
Project seminar

14. Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
Training
On-the-job training, learning by doing, and ad-hoc internal workshop through all project period. Content of training and workshop are lists as follow
Basic statistics training, sampling and estimation, SNA statistics
Analysis and Industrial developments training : Industry developments approach, Industry developments master plan, Developments Strategy, Action plan, SWOT analysis
IIP Developments training : IIP Conceptual, Commodity and Industry selection, Commodity and Industry weight calculation, IIP calculation, Contribution calculation, IIP analysis and use
IT training user-administrator training

15. Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
Throughout the project 5 modules have developed
Human resource developments
IT infrastructure developments
Database and database system developments
Industrial statistics developments
Unit and organization to carry forward the industrial statistics production

16. Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
Throughout out the project we have 3 milestone roadmap
1st milestone – Develop infrastructure and create
manufacturing establishments the population frame
2nd milestone – Conduct the 2015 industry survey to produce
main statistics for economics and industry planning
3rd milestone – Produce a timelines statistics a quarter IIP to grasp
industrial production timeliness
By the end of 2016 the project will touchdown second milestone

17. Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
Encouraging factors and obstacle
DoIH staff have good education and competencies
Counterparts eager to learn and appreciated to have technical and knowledge transfer
All level from officer to administrator are support and encourage the project
MoIC and DoIH perceived that the project help in reduce workload and benefit in develop industrial database and statistics
Obstacles
Communication and transportation are weak
IT network and internet access are weak

18. Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
Challenges 2017 workload
2017 project goals to produce quarterly IIP with have to spend 1 quarter to design the survey and system
The project have 2 quarter left to survey and produce a quarterly plus strengthening policy formulation capability

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