SECRETARIAT WORK PROGRAMME 2009 PARIS 21 Steering Committee

SECRETARIAT WORK PROGRAMME 2009 PARIS 21 Steering Committee meeting OECD Conference Centre 6 November 2008

INTRODUCTION Overall programme 2009 -2010 Approved during the former SC in June 2008 Proposed work programme 2009: Updated Taking into account priorities and new orientations

OUTLINE OF 2009 WORK PROGRAMME (1) A- COUNTRY ACTIVITIES 1. 2. 3. NSDS implementation Peer reviews Advocacy Statistical reporting B- REGIONAL OR SPECIFIC PROGRAMMES 1. 2. 3. 1. Arab States Island states Fragile States (DECISION 3) (ref. following presentation)

OUTLINE OF 2009 WORK PROGRAMME (2) C -GLOBAL REPORTING, STUDIES, TASK TEAMS 1. 2. 3. Ensuring reporting on NSDS progress Donor’s reporting: PRESS (ref. morning presentation) Launching three new studies D- MANAGEMENT PARIS 21 evaluation (DECISION 2) PARIS 21 Consortium Funding (ref. following presentation) Next Steering Committee (DECISION 5)

A Country activities (1) Facilitating the implementation (or design) of NSDS • Focus on less-developed countries in Africa (fragile states) • Launching new activities in Asia and Caribbean • Strengthening the overall statistical system (support to National Statistical Councils) • Encouraging national partnerships for funding statistics (ex: Mali) • Target : at least 15 new countries covered Consolidating the Peer Review approach • Anglophone Africa: three sets of countries • Francophone Africa: a first set of countries (Niger, Burkina Faso)

A Country activities (2) Providing ad-hoc support on advocacy • • • Focus on less-developed countries in Africa Enlarging support to Asia, Latin America and Caribbean Specific grant on advocacy in 6 countries On the basis of the Advocacy Toolkit Target of 25 countries for 2009 Encouraging statistical reporting at national level • Country reporting guidelines available • Support to National Councils of Statistics (portals on statistical systems) • Target of 2 countries for 2009

B Regional activities (1) Arab States • Maghreb workshop in December 2008 • 4 th Arab Forum in Cairo May 2009 Island states Specific issue of statistical capacity building in islands and small states • Workshop Caribbean-Pacific as side meeting of UNSC 2009? • NSDS workshop for the Caribbean June 2009 • High-level policy makers and statisticians seminar in the Caribbean

C Global reporting, studies and task-teams Reporting • Regular production of NSDS progress reporting tables • Donor’s reporting: PRESS (ref. seminar and morning presentations) Studies • • Statistics and governance HR and training policies in the framework of NSDS Strategic management textbook Finalizing the on-going studies Task-Teams • • VSS (presentation to follow) Additional guidance on Intersect? Training in Africa: under the umbrella of ACBF Sub-national statistics: ADB leading

D Management (1) Evaluation • Within the framework of the tracking process of the PARIS 21 partnership • Would be useful to have the results as main input for the Consortium • Proposed to launch it beginning of 2009 (rather than 2010 after the consortium) Ø DECISION 2 Consortium (ref. following presentation) Funding • Deepened relations with DAC delegations and outside OECD Next Steering Committee: 28 -29 May 2009 PARIS Ø DECISION 5

Organizational arrangements for 2009 PARIS 21 Secretariat Manager Country and regional operations: • Deputy Manager • 2 Desk-Officers • Communications Officer for Advocacy Partnership: • Project Manager Studies-Task Teams • Project Manager Consortium Organization • Project Manager Reporting Administrative-Financial-IT Support • 3. 5 Administrative Assistants • 0. 2 IT support