1. Breakout session: Towards guidelines for implementation
Soft skills

2. The main issue Focus on Soft Skills
The main issue resulting from the capacity development 4.0 survey focused on the « lack of tailored capacity assistance with a country-led focus ».
Focus on Soft Skills
While 54% of NSOs consider that technical skills are the most important to develop in their employees, the development of other types of skills is increasingly needed. For example, strategic planning and work ethic and self-motivation came out as the most important skills to develop in Latin America, while strategic planning, management and leadership skills emerged as important in Africa.

3. Soft Skills solutions (agreements)
Possible solutions
Marina Gandolfo (National Institute for Statistics, Italy)
Mark Hereward (UNICEF)
How might we design and implement programmes that help build soft skills?
Soft Skills solutions (agreements)
DEMAND SIDE
1. Plan the capacity development
Comprehensive capacity development assessment to decide the needed training support
Institutional monitoring, evaluation of targets, results-based assessment of the results and behavioural changes (re-organization/restructuring of human resources management for soft skills)
Avoid one-size fits all solution; consider local culture and context
Dedicated leadership empowered with high technical managerial skills
Take initiative plus plan
Only train in what we can do
Training plan on specific soft skills
Soft skills-centric NSDS and annual work plan
Evaluate needs re-coordinate and go forward

4. Soft Skills solutions (agreements)
Possible solutions
Marina Gandolfo (National Institute for Statistics, Italy)
Mark Hereward (UNICEF)
How might we design and implement programmes that help build soft skills?
Soft Skills solutions (agreements)
SUPPLY SIDE
Partnerships
- with academia
- with leading organizations on specific topics
- with business schools
- with private sector
2. Learning from each other in person
- mentorship linked with assessment of outcomes
- secondments of statisticians in other ministries
- transfer management and leadership knowledge
- coaching

5. Soft Skills solutions (agreements)
Possible solutions
Marina Gandolfo (National Institute for Statistics, Italy)
Mark Hereward (UNICEF)
How might we design and implement programmes that help build soft skills?
Soft Skills solutions (agreements)
SUPPLY SIDE
3. Sharing/exchange experience
Platform for sharing expertise and providing materials
Exchange good practices for soft skills between NSOs
Select champion NSO an announce during UNSC and document best practice
Encourage bilateral agreements between NSOs on long-term support programs
4. Technical cooperation
Sending of consultant to NSO
Develop generic curriculum for training soft skills for statisticians
Organize hands-on workshop with mandatory certificate for all statistician work in the statistical units within the NSS
Leadership and management training

7. Breakout Group Objective
Consultation alignment w/national development plans (country demand)
Philipp Schönrock (CEPEI)
Tale Kvalvaag (NORAD)
New (soft) skills
Marina Gandolfo (National Institute for Statistics, Italy),
Mark Hereward (UNICEF)
Costing of activities (absorptive capacity)
Papa Seck (UN Women)
Cristina Pereira de Sa (Eurostat) GT BB RR CM FF YT