Canada-China Programming Framework

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Canada-China Programming Framework

• Policies, Poverty Reduction and Statistics
• Diana M. Merlini
• First Secretary (Development)
• Canadian Embassy, Beijing

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Policies, Poverty Reduction and Statistics

• Chronology of Canada-China Development
  Cooperation
• Milestones
• 1994 Canada-China Programming Framework
• 2004-2009 Canada-China Development Programming
  Framework
• Why statistics?
• Statistics and future programming

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Chronology of Canada-China Development Cooperation

• 1981 Canada-China Development Cooperation
  focuses on human resource development

• to contribute to China's developmental efforts

• to help strengthen the tendency within China
  towards more open, rules-based policies

• to cultivate China as a partner in development,
  trade, and international relations

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Chronology of Canada-China Development Cooperation

• 1988 Building human and institutional linkages
  between Chinese and Canadians

• strengthening institutions

• maximizing potential multiplier effects in areas
  where Canada has strong capabilities

education and training, agriculture, forestry,
energy, transportation, and telecommunications
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1994 Canada-China Programming Framework

• Economic Cooperation

To promote China's efforts to develop a market
economy as well as economic linkages and
partnerships between Canada and Chinato help
strengthen the tendency within China towards more
open, rules-based policies
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1994 Canada-China Programming Framework
Economic Cooperation

• Environmental Sustainability

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1994 Canada-China Programming Framework
Environmental Sustainability

• To promote environmentally sustainable
  development in China by enhancing its capacity to
  manage the environment

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1994 Canada-China Programming Framework

• Economic Cooperation
• Environmental Sustainability

Human Rights, Democratic Development and Good
Governance
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1994 Canada-China Programming Framework
Human Rights, Democratic Development and Good
Governance

• to increase China's capacity to effect good
  governance, respect for human rights and
  democratic development (public management)
  processes

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1994 Canada-China Programming Framework

• Economic Cooperation
• Environmental Sustainability
• Human Rights, Democratic Development and Good
  Governance

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Canada-China Development Programming Framework
2004-2009

• GOAL
• To contribute to sustainable development and
  poverty reduction through support for

• equitable growth
• environmental sustainability and
• human rights, democratic development and good
  governance

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Equitable Growth

• Enhance the economic opportunities of the rural
  poor in western China by improving the
  effectiveness of Chinas Poverty Reduction and
  Development Program and skills training systems

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Equitable Growth

• Agricultural extension and skills training
  systems
• Enhanced access to poverty programs
  (participatory planning, decision-making,
  management, monitoring and evaluation)

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Environmental Sustainability

• Land resource management systems
• Enhanced management capacity
• Improved coordination
• Increased participation of women and men at
  community level

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Human Rights, Democratic Development and Good
Governance

• Rule of law
• Institutions
• Standards and requirements of international
  instruments to which China and Canada are parties

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Why statistics?

• To improve public management by promoting an
  environment for evidence-based policy making
• Consistent with the third priority of CIDA's 1994
  CDPF for China

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1994 Canada-China Programming Framework

• Human Rights, Democratic Development and Good
  Governance to increase China's capacity to
  effect good governance, respect for human rights
  and democratic development (public management)
  processes

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Evidence-based policy making

• A policy is only as good as the data on which it
  is based

Statistics are the eyes of the policymaker Keth
Muhakanizi Statistics Matter Eliminating World
Poverty
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Statistical Information Management Project (SIMP)

• Implemented by Statistics Canada and the National
  Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
• 9.9 million, 1996-2004
• promoted improved collection, analysis, use, and
  dissemination of statistical information in China

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Statistical Information Management Project (SIMP)

• not only introduced new statistical methodologies
  and practices to NBS, but it also built the,
  financial, information and human resources
  management capacity of NBS.
• NBS a more open and progressive statistical
  agency

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Statistical Information Management Project (SIMP)

• Human Resource Development
• Financial Management
• National Accounts
• Databank
• Metadata
• Survey Skills Video
• Household Survey Project

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Statistics and the current CDPF

• Equitable growth improved poverty data, regional
  GDP
• Environmental sustainability green GDP
• Good governance improving evidence-based
  decision making

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Statistics and the current CDPF

• Statistics must not only be accurate and
  timelybut also relevant and useful.
• LGOP (poverty statistics)
• SEPA (environmental statistics)
• NDRC (macro-planning statistics)

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Conclusion

• To improve public management by promoting an
  environment for evidence-based policy making

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Conclusion

• A policy is only as good as the data on which it
  is based
• The data is only good if it is used