Sri Lanka Review of the Sri Lankan Statistical
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Sri Lanka Review of the Sri Lankan Statistical System and the review tool. Fifth Project Support Meeting Bangkok, Thailand | 9 May 2018
Outline of Presentation • • Project Description Timeline The review tool What have you learnt from the project so far?
Project Description • Improve the National Statistical System(NSS) of Sri Lanka to contribute effectively to the development of the country. • The system currently existing caters the government and other development partners in their data needs for development plans • The quality frame work, co-ordination with other agencies, avoiding duplication of compiling, improve the official statistics programme and implementation of a new statistical act.
Timeline Proposed Activity Timeline Set up NSDS team October 2017 Agreement on NSS review tool 21 May-25 June ‘ 18 28 May-8 June 2018 Co-ordination with other Agencies Filling out review tool 18 June- 20 July ‘ 18 Set up external NSS Reviews team to be initiated 14 May 2018 Conduct desk review June-July 2018 Consultation meeting with NSS team and External August- September NSS review team 2018 Preparation of review tool Sept. Oct, -2018 Preparation of final Report and dissemination November 2018
The review tool • Purpose? – Policy makers, citizens, and the international community use data for results-based management, better governance, evidence-based decision making – The Need to build the confidence and awareness by improving the quality of data, the relevance, importance and timeliness of statistics to above task • How it going to be used? – The concerns of other external stake holders will be obtained by the tool – Hope to get ways and means for the Improvements in the current NSS
Plan to Progress / Timelines • Proposed activities to be completed in time • Inclusion of higher ranking officers from the Ministry and other decision makers in the external team • Effective official statistics programme with the participation of the stakeholders • Maximum use of administrative data for compiling statistics by including the participation of important Ministries
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