Coordination of national statistical systems and reporting mechanisms

Coordination of national statistical systems and reporting mechanisms for MDG data to international agencies BOTSWANA EXPERIENCE May 2008 A N Majelantle Government Statistician Central statistics Office Botswana 1

contents v Introduction v Legislation and mandate of CSO v Objectives v Structure v Statistical Coordination v Linkage within Org and Planners v Linkage with int’ Org v Preparation of MDG Country report v Calendar of MDG data v Mechanism of Reporting MGD data to Int’ Agencies v MDG Data Report Problems v Conclusion v Recommendation 2

Introduction v. Stats Act v. Central statistics Office (CSO) placement 3

Legislation and Mandate of CSO v. CSO: principal data collecting, processing, analysis and disseminating agency. v. Responsible for coordinating, monitoring and supervising National statistics System. v. Statutory mandate to produce and provide stakeholders with statistical information. 4

Structure v Centralised structure Economic Statistics Social Statistics Censuses and Surveys Service Units Statistical Units 1. Environment 2. Industrial 3. National Accounts 4. Prices & Poverty 5. Trade 6. Transport 7. Agriculture 8. Communicati on Statistical Units 1. Demo graphy 2. Educati on 3. Health 4. Labour Statistical Units 1. Census 2. Cartography 3. Household Surveys 1. Administratio n Training and Library 2. Computing Services 3. Regional Station. Francistown 4. Monitoring and Evaluation: Vision 2016 & MDGs 5

Statistical coordination v. Establishing linkages with various entities v. Influenced by the structure v. Leads to maximum intergration v. Leads to application of common standards v. Ensure maximum cooperation v. Improve awareness of the importance of statistics v. Identify statistical gaps 6

Lincage within og & Planners v. Internal communication (meetings etc 0 influences the efficiency of effectiveness of activities including coordination. v. Linkage with Planners (DEFP) bi-weekly meetings 7

Linkage with Int’Org v. Collaboration in Statistical advocacy v. Capacity building v. Statistical development 8

Preparation of Country report MDG v. PDC responsibility v. UN development partners assistance v. CSP participation – data provider v. No duplication of efforts. 9

Calendar of MDG data v. Data is in indicator format v. No metadata v. No request for metadata v. No capacity for building metadata v. Focus on data requested. 10

Mechanism of reporting MDG data to Int’ Agencies v. UN Questionnaires v. Request passed by other Agencies to CSO v. CSO not aware of who should receive data and at what timelines. v. Data only submited when required. 11

MDG Data Report Problems v. Discrepancies on Global reports v. Methodologies used not known. 12

Conclusion v Coordination with stakeholders at national level is satisfactory. v Collaboration with development partners concentrates on Ø Advocacy Ø Statistical capacity building and Ø Statistical development - is satisfactory v Collaboration with Int’ Organisation for global report data is weak and results in discrepancies in data. 13

Recommendations v To include collaboration with NSO’s for global report data as part of collaboration with subregions. v Involve countries in the preparation of the global report. v Agree on one questionnaire for the production of data for the global report. v Agree on timelines for submission of data for the global report. v Agree on one office responsible for receiving Global report data (contact Office by sub-region) 14

Recommendations (Cont…) v Agree on a strategy for short term attachment of NSO representatives at the global offices for hands on capacity building on global report preparation v Global office to conduct a workshop on report preparation format/ methodology at sub-regional level 15