1. MEASURING PROGRESS – BUILDING STATISTICAL CAPACITY
Juraj Riecan, PhD Director, UN-ESCWA Statistics Division

2. Statistics for evidence based policy making
Objective
Capacity building – needs assessment
Quality and Relevance
Framework of operation
Products and outputs

3. Objective Capacity building
STATISTICS
Data
Activities
Skills
Outputs
Capacity building

4. Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
Capacity building
Assessment of needs
Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
10 principles
Focus areas
Evaluation
Strategies
Good preactices
Comparative analysis
Programme planning

5. Quality
and
Relevance

6. Internationally agreed goals
Demand
Internationally agreed goals
Statistics
National strategies
Response to crisis

7. Traditional indicators New indicators on development
Statistics
MDG indicators
New indicators on development

8. Sources
Surveys
National
International
Indicators
Registers

9. Issues Too many actors Quality of administrative sources
Breakdown details
Gaps
Issues
Sustainability of data collection
Discrepancies: national – regional – international
Relevance
Coordination

10. Ways to improvement In-depth reviews
Availability
Discrepancies national-international
Regional perspective
New approaches – Measuring Progress of Societies

11. Framework of operation
National Stat. System
Region
Sub-region
National Stat. Offices
Country

12. ... Projects Statistical literacy
More responsive gender statistics reporting
DevInfo, databases, dissemination
Measuring progress of societies
...

13. Products and outputs Publications e-Dissemination
Revisiting indicators
Relevance
Activities
Arab networks
Outreach
OECD glossary
Arab statistical glossary

14. riecan@un.org jafarn@un.org
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