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Title: Why%20is%20disseminating%20Millennium%20Development%20Goal%20indicators%20important?%20Why%20should%20dissemination%20be%20proactive?


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Why is disseminating Millennium Development Goal
indicators important? Why should dissemination
be proactive?
  • Training Workshop on Disseminating MDG Indicators
    and Statistical Information
  • Astana, Kazakhstan, 23-25 November 2009
  • Petteri Baer, Regional Adviser, UNECE

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and the same goes for MDG Indicators
  • Only used statistical information is useful
    statistical information!

3
Who needs MDG Indicators statistical
information?
  • Decision makers
  • In Business
  • In Administration
  • In Politics
  • ? The Policy Cycle
  • Research and Educational Institutions
  • The Media
  • Citizens
  • NGOs

4
What do we mean by the Policy Cycle?
  • Policy is a course or principle of action
    adopted by a government, party, business or
    individual
  • Policies may aim to retain the status quo or
    implement a programme of reform or change
  • In reality, the policy cycle is often a messy
    process

5
What is a Policy Cycle?
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What is an effective and efficient Policy Cycle?
  • Know clearly where we are analysis
  • Know where we want to go objectives
  • Understand the steps needed to get there
    policies and strategies
  • Capacity to follow the steps sound
    implementation procedures
  • Know where we are at any time effective
    monitoring system
  • Learning from experience to inform and improve
    the next generation of policies and programmes

7
What is an inclusive and accountable Policy
Cycle?
  • Inclusive means that all relevant actors and
    stakeholders
  • should be consulted and participate at various
    stages of the cycle
  • Accountable requires
  • open and transparent procedures

8
What is Evidence-Based Policy Making?
  • In recent years there has been an effort to
    improve the policy cycle in many countries by
    moving to evidence-based policy making
  • Evidence-based policy helps people make
    well-informed decisions about policy, programmes
    and projects by
  • putting evidence from good and reliable
    information sources and
  • research based evidence at the heart of policy
    development and implementation
  • A shift to evidence-based policy making will
    increase the possibility of meeting the MDG
    goals

9
The Policy Cycle Analysing the situation
Setting objectives
Policy and strategy
  • Where are we now?
  • Including quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Characteristics of the population
  • Macro, social, political constraints
  • Current national strategies

PRSP process the theory
Fully costed programmes
Analysis
Implementation
Monitoring and evaluation
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The Policy CycleSetting objectives
Setting objectives
Policy and strategy
  • Where do we want to go?
  • Set priorities and objectives
  • Define medium- and long-term goals (for growth,
    poverty reduction etc)
  • Integrate MDGs

PRSP process the theory
Fully costed programmes
Analysis
Policy implementation
Monitoring
11
The Policy CycleDeveloping policies and
strategies
Setting objectives
Policy and strategy
  • What do we need to do to reach objectives?
  • Examine existing programmes
  • Identify priority policies and programmes
  • Research evidence-based policy making

PRSP process the theory
Fully costed programmes
Analysis
Policy implementation
Monitoring and evaluation
12
The Policy CycleCosting programmes
Setting objectives
Policy and strategy
  • How much is it going to cost and where is the
    financing coming from?
  • Cost the range of policies and programmes
  • that have been identified
  • Align with budget process

Costing programmes
Analysis
PRSP process the theory
Monitoring
Implementation
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The Policy Cycle Implementation
Policy formulation
Policy and strategy
  • Following the steps to deliver the policies and
    programmes
  • Pilot testing and implementing
  • new programmes

Analysis
Fully costed programmes
PRSP process the theory
Implementation
Monitoring
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The Policy Cycle Monitoring and Evaluation
Setting objectives
Financing
  • Are we following the steps set out and moving
    in the right direction?
  • Have we reached objectives?
  • Do we need to review objectives?
  • How can we improve progress against
  • objectives?

Communication
Analysis
Monitoring
Monitoring and evaluation
Policy implementation
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How does an MDG strategy fit into the national
policy cycle?
  • Developing a strategy for meeting the MDGs
    usually has involved / involves three stages
    (follow-up)
  • Setting a baseline and National targets
  • Conducting a needs assessment
  • Building policies and programmes around needs
    assessments

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Important issues for the information providers on
Indicators of MDGs
  • We should learn to know the need structures of
    our important users and user groups
  • We should make our information easily accessible
    for them
  • And we should put ourselves in continuous
    interaction with them in order to get to know
    them better

17
User demands how can they be found out?
  • Is knowing user demands important or not?
  • Not a simple task
  • Which users voices are heard?
  • How good is the coverage of our information
    sources?

18
More and more statistical publication takes place
on the internet
  • This is a very positive development
  • Availability and accessibility of official
    statistics has grown substantially
  • In the beginning of the year 2008
  • gt500 Million internet hosts in the world!
  • This also increases pressure on timeliness

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So - isnt it enough if we provide information on
our web site? Searching on Google
  • Inflation
  • 30 Million answers
  • Ergebnisse 1 - 10 von ungefähr 30700'000 für
    Inflation. (0.26 Sekunden)
  • Social statistics
  • 73 Million answers
  • Ergebnisse 1 - 10 von ungefähr 73100'000 für
    Social Statistics. (0.08 Sekunden)
  • For USA only 4 Million
  • For Switzerland only 1 Million
  • For Kazakhstan only 0.2 Million

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And note There are other traps on the way!
  • Just putting your information on your web site
    does not automatically mean it is utilized
  • Even though your web information is utilized, it
    does not mean that your most important users make
    use of it

21
Traps on the way, continued
  • You may cover only a tinyshare of your
    potential users- but not recognize it!

22
Traps on the way, continued
  • Counting the popularity of your web site by
    hits may deceive you because
  • a substantial part of the fabulous growth comes
    from search engines checking if you have any new
    information

23
To develop understandable messages may also not
be all that easy in the jungle of statistical
information
24
How do we perceive ourselves? How do decision
makers perceive our services?
  • How important is our role in real decision
    making?
  • In practical terms?
  • How covering is our information on users?
  • Do we know enough about our potential users, our
    potential customers?

25
User demands the basic ones
  • User friendly
  • Easily accessible
  • Understandable and clear
  • Focused on the essentials
  • With visual presentations
  • Impressive
  • Balanced

26
Basic quality demands for statistical services
  • Q
  • Relevance
  • Accuracy
  • Timeliness
  • Punctuality
  • Accessibility
  • Clarity and
  • Comparability

27
Trade-offs almost every day
  • Timeliness is a must but what about accuracy?
  • Relevance is a must but what about needs
    specific only to one or a few users?
  • RememberOnly used statistics is useful
    statistics

28
User friendly statistical services
  • can be established only through interaction with
    users
  • Interaction with real users
  • Not with solely our imagination on them
  • Not only governmental users
  • Not only the ones we by tradition are mainly used
    to

29
Who bears the responsibility that communication
with users works well?
  • The future
  • The importance
  • Our place in society is at stake
  • Users judgement may well define, how our
    statistical services are perceived and used

30
Who bears the responsibility that communication
with users works well? (2)
  • Is it the individual statistician, the
    subject-matter expert?
  • Program managers?
  • Information PR Unit?
  • Or Is it a challenge for the top management?
  • Who should bring in a systematic approach on
    building user relations, if it is missing?

31
A modulated approach - basics for efficient user
services
  • The importance of
  • A good information architecture
  • Effective databases
  • Metadata information available
  • Linking identifications exist between different
    data
  • XML helps to build electronic bridges

32
The importance of user friendly Database services
  • Statistical agencies produce quite a lot of
    statistical information
  • Different users have different aspects of
    interest, they want information
  • By industries, By enterprise sizes
  • By regions
  • Comparisons over different time periods
  • International comparisons
  • And numerous other aspects
  • PC-Axis, PX-Web User friendly services!

33
Often it is not easy, especially if information
providers work in silos - and behave as that
would be ideal
34
Internet has in recent years pushed for building
corporate imagos
  • It has also highlighted the often very different
    approaches different departments/divisions/units
    may have on ways of publishing data
  • Sometimes these differences are reflected on the
    web site of the NSI!

35
Tools assisting work for better satisfaction of
user needs
  • Customer databases
  • Information on regular and heavy users
  • Customer Relationship Management system(CRM)
  • For good and systematic follow-up and planning of
    interaction with regular and heavy users
  • Example NSOs Canada, Finland, Estonia
  • Business Intelligence systems

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But thats already another story
  • Thank you for your attention
  • Remember
  • Only used statistics is useful statistics
  • Final question who will have the responsibility
    for systematic satisfaction of user needs on
    information on MDG Indicators on Statistical
    Information in general?

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