Quality and utilisation of MDG data

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Quality and utilisation of MDG data

8 June 2005 Mole Conference, Miklin Hotel, Kumasi
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Where we are coming from

• TREND is a learning organisation
• TREND has the objective to document and share
  best practices with all levels of stakeholders
• TREND has collaboration with national and
  international partners in the area of knowledge
  management

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Quality and utilisation of MDG data study

• Draft country position paper by IRC and TREND
• Follow-up workshop 24 February 2005
• Participants policy makers and professionals
  from the national, regional and district level,
  donor organisations and civil society.

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Content

• Background
• Current situation and challenges
• What can be done?

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United Nations Millennium Declaration

• September 2000, signed by all 191 member states
• Goal halving, by the year 2015, the number of
  people who live on less than one dollar a day.
• Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are
• 8 goals with
• 18 targets
• 48 indicators

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MDG Goals

• Goal 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Goal 2. Achieve universal primary education
• Goal 3. Promote gender equality and empower women
• Goal 4. Reduce child mortality
• Goal 5. Improve maternal health
• Goal 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
  diseases
• Goal 7. Ensure environmental sustainability
• Goal 8. Develop a global partnership for
  development

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Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability

• Target 10 Halve by 2015 the proportion of people
  without sustainable access to safe drinking
  water and basic sanitation
• Indicator Proportion of population with
  sustainable access to an improved water source
  and improved sanitation, urban and rural (UNICEF
  - WHO)

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Ghana signed MDGs Declaration

• MDGs serve as veritable anchor for GPRS
• Half by the year 2015 the proportion of people
  without sustainable access to safe water and
  sanitation
• Achieve 85 percent coverage in water and
  sanitation by 2015

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The importance of MDG monitoring

• MDG monitoring data can be used for
• tracking progress
• planning and allocation of resources
• But also
• monitoring as a form of post construction
  support identifying problems and taking
  immediate corrective action

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Current Situation
Framework for monitoring
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Challenges in MDGs Monitoring

• Great variability in data

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Challenges in MDGs Monitoring

• Aggregated data
• No breakdown of data by poverty level
• No breakdown of data by geography

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Challenges in MDGs Monitoring

• Insufficient depth of data
• Monitoring for efficiency rather than for
  effectiveness

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Challenges in MDGs Monitoring

• Limited use of the monitoring data and feedback
  to the stakeholders

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What can be done?

• Improve the quality of the data
• Harmonise and rationalise the definitions
• Break down the data by geography and poverty
  levels
• Quantified participatory monitoring
• Improve the framework for (MDG) monitoring
• Involve NGOs, CSOs and their networks

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Improve the quality of the data Definitions

• Harmonise definitions
• Go beyond just monitoring coverage or
  implementation data go from monitoring for
  efficiency to monitoring for effectiveness.
• Include sustainability aspects such as
• functionality of systems
• water quality
• Use of sanitation facilities
• functioning of watsan committees

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Improve the quality of the data Break down the
data
Example Access to adequate sanitation by region
Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire (CWIQ)
Ghana 2003
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Improve the quality of the data Participatory
monitoring

• People who have a stake and vested interest in
  the issues, will be most motivated to monitor
• Monitoring information should be collected and
  acted upon at the lowest possible level

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Improve the quality of the data Quantified
Participatory Monitoring

• Qualitative Information Systems (QIS) a system
  to quantify peoples perceptions
• Based on the MPA, developed by WSP of the WB and
  IRC
• QIS monitors a sample of communities using
  participatory techniques
• Stakeholders are involved in collecting,
  analysing and using the monitoring information

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Framework for monitoring

• Need for the establishment of a central
  institution to
• Provide a forum for harmonization and validation
  of the data
• Act as one stop centre for collecting information
  on the sector.
• Better stakeholder coordination

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Involve NGOs, CSOs and their networks

• Validate data and improve data quality
• Increase accountability of public resources
  allocation and utilisation
• Improve the use of monitoring data and feedback
  to the community
• Provide capacity building, training and technical
  assistance
• Important not parallel systems but synergies

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Summing up
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Thank you

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