1. Reporting Period: November 2007 – April 2008
PARIS21 Progress Report
Reporting Period: November 2007 – April 2008
PARIS21 Secretariat

2. A. Regional Programmes
Participation in various international and regional meetings
Support to statistical issues at donor consultative groups (Mauritania, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger)
Agreement on future peer reviews (Gambia, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone)
Agreement on future work in Central America, Caribbean, Arab States, Asia

3. B. Advocacy Development of the Statistics Advocacy Toolkit (START)
Participation in Norway’s “Scaling Up Development Co-operation: from Statistics to Policy Planning Workshop” event
Assistance to the following countries on producing advocacy booklets & NSDS synthesis documents:
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Ethiopia
Gabon
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Tanzania

4. C. Partnership
Partner Reporting on Support to Statistics (PRESS) – to be presented separately
Update of the Partnership Directory
Facilitation of Developing Country Statisticians in Relevant Events:
12 countries to the 2008 UNSC session
2 countries to VSS task team meeting
PARIS21 co-chair to the Kigali pre-conference for Accra HLF

5. D. Reporting Update of country NSDS sheets, including information on:
Strategic planning
NSDS implementation
Donor support
International and regional institution’s support
NSS structure
Use of data in national policy processes
Production of a toolkit on country reporting

6. E. Studies & Knowledge Development
Production of new guidance:
Statistics and M&E
Disseminating data to intermediate and final users
Translation of existing guidance:
Sectoral Statistics guide (Spanish)
NSDS guide, Note on Applying System-wide Approach, Guide to Using System-wide Approach (Albanian, Serbian -- thanks to DFID)
Better Statistics, Better Policies, Better Development Outcomes (Arabic)

7. F. Task Teams Virtual Statistical System – to be presented separately
Intersect
Guide finalised in English, French. New version in Spanish.
Further development of sector guidance proposed
To be discussed in Addis in July 2008
Training – to be presented separately
Subnational Statistics
Proposal for new task team, out of the Intersect work

8. G. Management Nomination of Secretariat Deputy Manager
Organisation of Bureau / Steering Committee meetings
Development of proposal on Tracking of Progress of the Partnership

9. H. Satellite Programmes
International Household Survey Network (IHSN)
Accelerated Data Program (ADP)
Measuring Human Rights, Democracy and Governance (Metagora)
All three will be the subject of separate presentations today.