1. Funding the Implementation of the Busan Action Plan for Statistics
World Bank
Meeting of Statistical Capacity Development Donors,
29 March, 2012
Paris, France

2. Outline Re-cap initial financing requirements for BAPS implementation
Review of World Bank funding instruments to support BAPS:
Criteria for re-purposing
Stock-taking / re-purposing of TFSCB and SRF
Other instruments supporting BAPS 2

3. Initial financing requirements
Key initiatives have sound financing (Agriculture $50m and Gender $6m)
Other initiatives are not expensive ($8-$12m):
Examples: NSDS update, Open Data Initiatives in country, pilot high-frequency stats, PARIS21 strengthening
Regional Development Banks to rely on current financing instruments 3

4. Criteria for re-purposing
Must clearly support BAPS actions
Maintain original core objectives
e.g. TFSCB for small scale operations, SRF for country-specific approaches
Coordinate with activities in other institutions
Maintain the balance between:
Large- and small-scale operations
Global, regional, & national level approaches
Maintain flexibility and responsiveness 4

5. TFSCB effective for small scale activities, but funding levels are low
Invested almost $39 million in over 200 projects since 2000
Covered all the regions -- the largest number of projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
Received positive assessment from Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group
Historically allocates about $3-4 million/year, grants under $500k
Currently only $2.5m remaining
Supports targeted improvements to NSS
Promotes global and regional statistical initiatives
Helps strategic planning processes at all levels
An effective catalyst for further funding 5

6. TFSCB funding demands exceeding supply
Administrative changes helped free up additional funding and track results:
Rigorous monitoring of project activation process
Reallocation of funds from inactive projects
Assessment and dissemination of project outcomes and good practices
…..Yet available funding was weak leading to 16 projects approvals (compared to over 30 in 2010)
11 country specific, 5 global/regional projects
9 SCB, 4 NSDS, 3 mixed projects 6

7. TFSCB Re-purposing strategy
Demands exceed $3m per annum through FY16 for core and new activities:
Support updates/revisions to NSDSs (core activity)
Support open data initiatives in countries
Open Government Partnership now at 50+ member countries requiring fast track assessments & other small targeted scale support
Pilot “horizontal” initiatives, test new ideas (e.g. high frequency data pilots, train users)
Customize support for fragile states 7

8. Statistics for Results Catalytic Fund (SRF) builds support for large-scale operations
Pilot phase expanded to eight counties
Approach has:
Stimulated support for implementing National Statistical Strategies
Promoted a system-wide approach for statistics at country level;
Promoted improved coordination and partnership between statistics users and statistical producers 8

9. SRF pilots progressing, financing is sufficient
Pilot status
Afghanistan and Nigeria are effective
Ghana and Rwanda approved, should begin disbursing shortly
Lao PDR and Senegal under preparation
DRC project concept approved
New Pilot: Ethiopia work underway to develop application/concept note
Financial status
Expected expenditures for pilot countries is over $70m
$50m remains for other countries. 9

10. SRF Re-purposing strategy
Ensure original purpose of the SRF will remain the major focus
Explore quick disbursing grants to countries to test innovative approaches
Example: high frequency data collection pilots could increase use of data in decision-making & improve data collection techniques
Expand scope of support to targeted areas to improve results
Example: pilot improvements to select admin data sources that are critical to M&E Systems or vital registration data 10

11. Repurposing Other WB instruments
IBRD/IDA lending (large scale projects)
Broaden approach to budget support and results based lending
Trust Fund supporting East Europe/CIS (large and small scale):
New partnership with Russia (ECASTAT) to finance regional and country programming
Trust fund for household micro-data (small scale):
Explore support of applying curation techniques to admin data and enterprise statistics (small scale, bank staff).
Development Grant Facility
Current funding through FY16 to support key partners (PARIS21 & UNSD) 11