1. Partner Implications from Seminar: New Approaches to Capacity Development
Break-out Group:
Role of Producers

2. Identified Challenges
Need to organise and plan the work of the NSS
Different language between user and producer
Need to manage the demand and see which demand is priority
Dissemination too slow
How to maintain robust traditional sources while bringing new sources for faster release and analysis
How to enter in agreement with producers of non-traditional data?
Dynamic and flexible statistical legislation
With which new sources should we start?
Official/traditional producers risk to be left behind
High staff turn over in NSS
Limited resources of NSS

3. Proposed Strategies (short to medium and medium to long term)
Define and prioritize the users (ST)
Setting up advisory meetings with data users, as part of the NSDS (on going)
Funding strategy (donors ST and government LT)
Partner with new actors, users
Media training
User able to assess quality of data (data literacy)
MoUs with private producers
MoUs with academia
Process for user feedback

4. Implementation methods
Task Team: guidelines to regulate the relationship between new data sources producers and NSOs
TT Compile best practices from countries, and share them, prior to the 2018 Board meeting
Identify and analyse new data sources
List of references, papers, on the use of new data sources
Analyse costs aspects in the use of new data sources
Advocacy for funding, legislation, use, etc.
Leadership training to develop competences in a changing environment