1. 29 September 2011 International Forum on Monitoring National Development, Beijing, People’s Republic of China 27 – 29 September 2011 James Whitworth Head, International Statistical Co-operation Eurostat, European Commission International Forum on Monitoring National Development, Beijing, People’s Republic of China 27 – 29 September 2011 ASTRA: An IT tool for the Assessment for Statistical TRAining

2. 29 September 2011 ASTRA Objectives (general)  Increase the availability of people who are trained to use, produce and manage statistics by: 1. Integrating training within capacity building actions as part of medium-term statistics strategies, based on NSDSs 2. Targeting proposals for statistical training 3. Identifying how training institutes can sustainably meet the demand for statistics-related training

3. 29 September 2011 What ASTRA can do ASTRA can analyse demand for statistics training to facilitate development of national training plans that make best use of training / human resources budget. ASTRA can analyse demand for statistics training providers to enable matching demand with supply. ASTRA’s outputs are consistent reports. Hence, ASTRA is useful for preparing a NSDS implementation plan. Future: putting ASTRA on the Eurostat website for free and presenting the tools in countries & regional organisations.

4. 29 September 2011 Managing the statistical training demand in developing countries:  ASTRA (new tool): Assessment of Statistical Training

5. 29 September 2011 Managing the statistical training demand in developing countries:

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10. ASTRA pilot implementations 2009: Tanzania Senegal 2010: South Africa Mali Liberia 2011: Ethiopia AGROST Mozambique Paris – CODESA

11. 29 September 2011 Next steps: 2012 - 3 IT: Regular Maintenance and debugging of ASTRA Incorporate comments from users, including corrective maintenance and project management; Introduce improvements into different modules; Guidance for ASTRA users in a helpdesk. Practical fieldwork application of the tool, mobilisation of partners through the promotion of ASTRA Organise national or regional one-week workshops to be held in 6 different countries (4 in 2012 and 2 in 2013); Analyse and discuss the output of ASTRA; identify the changes needed for the improvement of the tool.

12. 29 September 2011 Thank you James Whitworth Head, International Statistical Co-operation Eurostat, European Commission james.whitworth@ec.europa.eu