1. 1 CCSA Meeting, Tunis, September 11-12, 2008 Michel Mouyelo-Katoula Division Manager, Statistical Capacity Building African Development Bank AfDB’s Statistical Activities AfDB’s Statistical Activities

2. 2 Statistical Activities of the Bank SCB Support to Operations Way Forward ICP; Prices; N.A. NSDS MDG Monitoring Social Statistics (IMIS) STCs Result Based CSP Economic & Sector Work Project Cycle Policy-Based Lending PRSP Scaling Up New Statistical Program (2009-2010) 4 Components

3. 3 Statistics Department Social and Economic Statistics Division Statistical Capacity Building Division Databases & Support to Operations Support to Countries 4 Professionals 4 Junior statisticians 5 Professionals 2 Junior statisticians

4. 4 RRSF ICP-Africa NSDS Marrakech Action Plan for Statistics Statistical Capacity Building Frameworks

5. 5 National Accounts Price Statistics ADF-XI Focal Areas ICP-Africa Governance Support to Countries and Sub- Regional Organizations Statistical Capacity Building Chart Poverty PPPs Agriculture and rural development Gender Environment Climate Change Infrastructure RRSF Statistical Strategies NSDS Partnership & Other Projects Networking Progress of Societies Social Statistics Country Statistical Profile STCs Institutional Support Bank’s Strategies

6. 6 Supporting Countries Through Supporting Bank’s Operations R-B CSP Meet Data Needs at All Stages of Cycle (M&E) Missions (incl. Review) Discuss with Government Ad hoc surveys Log-frames Remedial statistical measures Project Cycle Policy Based Lending PRSP Institutional Support

7. 7 Standing Publications By the Statistics Department African Statistical Journal Gender, Poverty & Environmental Indicators Selected Statistics on African Countries Compendium of Statistics on Bank Group Operations The ADB Statistics Pocketbook The Wall Chart on MDGs

8. 8 Way Forward Work Programme 2009–2010 Submission to Board by year end Seed funding from the Bank Donor funding to be solicited Improve social & poverty statistics In addition to economic statistics Build on independent evaluation Main Components Continue current activities Improve social & poverty statistics Improve statistics on ADF-XI focal areas Agriculture and rural development; governance; infrastructure; gender; environment; and climate change Data development, archiving, and dissemination Seed Financing from ADF: +/- $ 26 M

9. 9 ASCC Working Groups 1. RRSFECA 2. NSDSAfDB 3. Fragile StatesAfDB 4. ICP-AfricaAfDB 5. Statistical TrainingECA/ACBF 6. African Statistics CharterAUC 7. Progress of African SocietiesAfDB 8. Statistical AssociationsACBF 9. African Statistical Award ProgrammeAfDB/AUC 10. ASCCECA 11. Joint African Statistical databases and publications AfDB/ECA 12. Consolidated African Statistical programme AfDB 13. 2009 ISI, Durban, South AfricaSTATSSA

10. 10 STATCOM-Africa Working Groups 1. GenderECA 2. Data ManagementECA/AfDB 3. National AccountsAfDB 4. Informal SectorAFRISTAT 5. Development IndicatorsECA

11. 11 Thank you