1. PARIS21 PROGRAMME OF WORK 2018

2. Work in 2018 Emerging trends in data
Costing, value and use of statistics
Building bridges
Caveat
Countries and regional organisations timetable
Additional requests over the year

3. Activities by Category and Region
Activity type

4. Knowledge Sharing and Innovation Incubator - Highlights
Cross Regional Forum on NSS modernisation and implementation of CD4.0
Guidelines on Data Flow Assessment Framework (DFAF) and NSS co-ordination
Pilot data collaborative on new data sources and analytics in Nepal
Expert Group on Costing Data and Statistical Systems; Task Team on Moving one STEP forward
Expert meeting on Value and Use of Statistics
Citizen-generated Data

5. Advocacy - Highlights Champion for Statistical Development
Statistical Capacity Development Outlook
Data Journalists Network
SIDS platform and NSO leaders platform

6. Co-ordination and Monitoring - Highlights
NSDSs (support in Africa, Asia & Pacific and LAC); RSDS (support to CARICOM); Report on the NSDS status in developing countries and the NSDS Guidelines for SIDSs
ADAPT support for SDG assessment and NSDS M&E
Peer reviews with AUC and Eurostat in Africa, in Asia with ASEAN
SDG Reporting
(national statistical plan)
(resources for statistical capacity)
(statistical legislation)

7. Technical Support - Highlights
Pilot adoption of .Stat Suite
NSO Human Resources Strategy in Philippines and Senegal
Statistical leadership training in the Caribbean
SDMX implementation at country level
Institutional Strengthening of the NSO in Grenada

8. Working with partners

9. Financial Update
The financial situation over the past years is an indicator of our work. The programme implementation costs over time have remained relatively stable at about 4M per year. Although this is less than we aimed to get in our new strategy (scenario of 7M EUR). We gained in the core programme while the ADP/IHSN programme ended.

10. Financial Update
This graphic shows how grants arrive: because many of the grants are multi-year, we can see that there are peaks and valleys in the way funding arrives.

11. If we look at the overall financial health of PARIS21 this year and in the future, you can see that in 2018, we are fully funded, but from 2019 we have a significant gap.

12. Financial Update
We have been making an effort to broaden our donor base and have been seeking funding from new donors and you can see that this year, we expect to have 15 donors, which is quite a bit more than in the past. These donors include Foundations, Development banks, Non-member countries and private entities.

13. Financial Update
The trend, however, is for more earmarking. From 2012 to now, you can see that the number of earmarked grants has really increased. This year 80% of our potential grants are earmarked.

14. Financial Update: Current situation
2018 funding secured
received only 35% of funding needed for 2019
15 donors approached for funding
10 new donors
5 previous donors
So in summary, the current situation for 2018 is that our work programme is fully funded, but from 2019 and beyond, we have a significant gap.
We have been working hard to fill that gap and have approached 15 donors. 10 of those are new donors.
The reality is that when we do get these grants in, they are smaller grants, not multi-year, they are earmarked (sometimes extremely earmarked), our staff spend a great deal of time developing these grant proposals and also building relationships with these new potential donors, and the new donors require more reporting – both financial and substance reports. So staff time is being spent fundraising and reporting rather than on our real core work.
Smaller grants, more earmarking, staff time spent on developing proposals, forging relationships, more reporting

15. Financial Update: Looking forward
Boost multi-annual unearmarked funding
New funding modalities
Unearmarked funding is important for flexibility, for co-financing other grants, and to keep administrative costs down.
We may need to look at new funding modalities such as cost sharing, secondments, staff on loan, sponsorship, PARIS21 Advisory Unit (which we will speak about a bit later)…
Due to the earmarked nature of the grants, our work programme also runs the risk of becoming donor driven rather than demand driven.
Donor driven vs demand driven