1. key developments following the implementation of the ten-year pacific statistics strategy (typss) phase 3 and the decisions of the 2017 hops meeting
Pacific Statistics Standing Committee meeting,
Nadi, Fiji,
1 November, 2018

2. Our achievements? Challenges Way forward OUTLINE
Strategic re-alignment
Enhanced governance and coordination mechanism
Major activities
SDD Transformation
Challenges
Way forward

3. The Pacific Community has 26 members, including four founding members: Australia, France, New Zealand and the United States.
22 Pacific island countries and territories: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, The Northern Marianna Islands, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea , the Pitcairn Islands, French Polynesia, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Niue, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Wallis and Futuna, Nauru, The Salomon Islands, American Samoa, Vanuatu and Samoa.

4. Strategic re-alignment
Data collection
Data analysis
Data dissemination
Decision making

5. Strategic re-alignment
Step 1: STRENGTHEN DATA ANALYSIS AND DISSEMINATION TO BETTER INFORM POLICY DECISIONS
(2016 SDD EXTERNAL REVIEW; TYPSS PHASE 2 REVIEW ;TYPSS PHASE 3 DESIGN AND ROADMAP)
Step 2: REGIONAL DATA DISSEMINATION FRAMEWORK
(APPROVED BY 2017 HOPS MEETING)
Step 3: REGIONAL DATA DISSEMINATION STRATEGY
(PRESENTED TO 2018 PSSC MEETING FOR ENDORSEMENT)

6. Governance and coordination
SDD 2016 External Review
There is currently a lack of coordination among donors and development partners in their technical assistance and funding to member countries. They need to find a way to better coordinate themselves and provide member countries with a more coherent technical support program and with relevant funding.

7. Regional statistics development governance
Committee/Meeting
Objectives (s)
TORS
1. Forum Economic Ministers Meeting (FEMM)
Provide strategic guidance and decision-making body in significant regional statistics development matters, including governance. It has the ability to push significant issues to Pacific Island leaders via the traditional PIFS process.
Nil
2. Heads of Planning and Statistics (HOPS) Meeting
Provide senior-level strategic oversight, guidance, recommendations and decisions on all statistical matters placed before it.
Yes
3. Pacific Statistics Standing Committee (PSSC)
Monitor implementation and progress of the TYPSS and other essential statics-related processes; make decision on operational matters and make recommendations to HOPS on strategic issues of importance for statistics development in the Pacific region. PSSC meet in years when there is no HOPS meeting.
4. Pacific Statistics Methods Board (PSMB)
A technical body with the role of reviewing technical proposals on methodologies, identifying areas requiring research to identify best practices and making appropriate decisions on technical matters or, in cases where it cannot make a final decision, make recommendations to PSSC and HOPS for further discussion and a decision.
5. Donor and Development Partners Group (DDPG) Meeting
Ensure that all relevant donors and development partners were provided with a means to better coordinate their action and resources and provide concrete input into statistic governance in the Pacific. It is not a decision making body but it can make recommendations to PSSC and HOPS on relevant statistical matters and issues.
SPC - SDD AS REGIONAL STATISTICS SYSTEM LEADER

8. PICTs -5 Year NATIONAL Collection Schedule

9. NSDS PROGRESS IN THE PACIFIC (2010-2018)
PICT
NSDS
Timeframe
Samoa
Completed
Cooks Is
Vanuatu
Solomon Is
Papua New Guinea
Tonga
Completed (Nov 2018)
Fiji
Completed (Tentative - Nov 2018)
Federated States of Micronesia
Tuvalu
Tokelau
Under development e
Kiribati
Planned for 2019
Nauru
Marshall Island
Not yet planned
Niue
Palau

10. PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES PHC HIES DHS OTHER
PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES
PHC
HIES
DHS
OTHER
MELANESIA
Papua New Guinea
2011
Fiji
 2016
2017 
Solomon Islands
2012
2014
Agr 2017
Vanuatu
2016
2010
2013
Hybrid
MICRONESIA
Kiribati
2010, 2015, 2018 Listing
Fed. States of Micronesia
Agr 2016
Marshall Islands
2017 (test)
Nauru
Palau
2012, 2015
Guam
CNMI
POLYNESIA
American Samoa
Samoa
Tuvalu
2012, 2017
2010,
Cook Islands
Niue
Tokelau
2011, 2016
Tonga
Agr 2015, Disability 2018
FRENCH TERRITORIES
Wallis and Futuna
2013, 2018
TOTAL 23 12 3 6
44 

11. REGIONAL TRAINING AND SOUTH-TO-SOUTH PROGRAM
Country mission
(Average of country mission a year)
Regional training and workshop
(Average of 6 workshops and training a year)
South-to-south
(Average of 3-4 south-to-south a year)
NSO staff attachment
Average of 5-6 a year
Pacific Young Professional Development Program
Attending international statistical meetings
SDD staff development

12. Set of 132 SDG Indicators for the Pacific Region
2017 Pacific Forum Leaders Samoa Meeting approved the following:
Pacific Regional Sustainable Development Roadmap
A set of 132 SDG Indicators for the Pacific drawn from the 241 global SDG Indicators
SDD to be responsible for the compilation, update and dissemination of the 132 SDG Indicators for the Pacific Region
pacific-sustainable-development-indicators

13. STATISTICS FOR DEVELOPMENT DIVISION (SDD) TRANSFORMATION
Trusted Pacific data supporting well informed policy decisions that help improve pacific people's lives.
Driven by demand from member countries, development and donor partners and users of Pacific data, including university students, researchers that are interested in using Pacific data. Guide the SDD Business Plan which runs from

14. Statistics for development division (sdd) transformation
SDD BUSINESS PLAN
Statistics system leader/coordinator
Provide technical support on censuses and surveys
Coordinate/provide technical support on other national data collections through partnership
Assist member countries with data analysis
Assist member countries with data dissemination

15. Sdd organisational chart

16. Sdd Annual budget
Costs per Category
CONFIRMED FUNDING
TOTAL (3 years)
2018
2019
2020
EURO
Human Resources
1,658,934
1,758,680
1,599,881
5,017,496
Operational Costs
138,899
120,183
88,717
347,800
Programme Activities Costs
558,304
482,761
258,413
1,299,479
Objective 1: Improve regional statistics system coordination and governance
261,025
250,028
47,970
559,023
Objective 2: Coordinate Census/Survey Technical Support and Methods Board
158,414
86,245
86,297
330,956
Objective 3: Improve data quality, analysis and packaging
65,403
86,178
51,943
203,525
Objective 4: Deliver user focus data dissemination products and services
73,462
60,310
72,204
205,975
Total Direct Costs
2,356,138
2,361,624
1,947,012
6,664,774
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL)
35,342
35,424
29,205
99,972
Programme Management Fee (PMF)
214,197
215,032
151,907
581,137
TOTAL SDD PROGRAMME COSTS
2,605,677
2,612,080
2,128,124
7,345,882

17. CHALLENGES – INCREASED DEMAND FOR STATISTICS
Increased demand for timely, accurate and disaggregated Pacific statistics including areas where data was never collected before: climate change, oceans, environment;
Pacific Leaders have signed up to over 40 conventions, frameworks and agreements, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Framework for Pacific Regionalism;
SDGs’ reporting requires disaggregated data on sex; income; ethnicity; age, location;
Increased demand from users of Pacific statistics for micro data – including university students; development partners; researchers; consultants; etc

18. Challenges - Pacific national statistics offices capacity
Country
2018
Nauru 3
Niue
Tokelau
Marshall Is 4
Palau 5
Tuvalu
American Samoa 7
Northern Marianas 8
Cook Is 10
Wallis and Futuna
Kiribati 11
Guam 17
FSM 19
Solomon Is 25
Vanuatu 31
Tonga 33
New Caledonia 41
Samoa 85
Fiji
140
PNG (preliminary)
157

20. Way forward
REVIEW NATIONAL CORE STATISTICS IN LIGHT OF CHANGING USER NEEDS
A PROPER ASSESSMENT OF PACIFIC STATISTICAL CAPACITY AND CAPABILITY GAP
A PROPER INVESTMENT PLAN FOR PACIFIC REGIONAL STATISTICS DEVELOPMENT
AN OPTIMAL REGIONAL FIVE YEAR COLLECTION PLAN
A SMARTER WAY OF CONDUCTING SURVEYS AND CENSUSES
STRENGTHEN REGIONAL STATISTICS PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
ADMINISTRATIVE DATA & BIG DATA
A REGIONAL STRATEGY BEYOND 2020

21. RECOMMENDATIONS PSSC members are invited to:
note the key developments following the implementation of the Ten-Year Statistics Strategy (TYPSS) Phase 3 and the decisions of the 2017 HOPS Meeting;
note the resource (financial and capacity) constraints faced with regional statistics development in the Pacific;
endorse that a mid-term review of TYPSS Phase 3 takes place at end of 2019 taking into account some of the challenges and possible ways forward proposed in this meeting;
consider a regional strategic framework beyond 2020;
endorse that donors (DFAT) be approached to fund the TYPSS Phase 3 mid-term review and a regional strategy beyond 2020