Preliminary info on a new Development Account Project on Millenium Development Goals

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Preliminary info on a new Development Account
Project on Millenium Development Goals

• Third SPECA PWG Meeting
• Paris 13 June 2008Petteri Baer, Regional
  Adviser, UNECE

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Project name and timing

• Supporting MDG-based development strategies
  through integrated regional action
• Project funding USD 593000, financed by the UN
  Development Account,
• To be implemented in 2009 2011 by UNESCAP (and
  SIAP) in collaboration with UNECE

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Overall objective of the Project

• To strengthen, through delivery of regional
  public goods, the national capacities to
  formulate, implement and monitor national
  development strategies in support of the
  implementation of internationally agreed
  development goals, including the MDGs, through
  consolidated regional actions

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Three expected achievements

• EA1 Improved capacities of policymakers and
  experts to integrate MDG-based strategies in
  national development frameworks.
• EA2 Increased skills to produce and disseminate
  relevant disaggregated MDG indicators through
  effective cooperation of data producers at a
  national and international level in support of
  national statistical systems which are based on
  countries needs and sound methodologies.
• EA3 Enhanced coordination among the UN agencies
  in supporting achievement of the MDGs and
  implementing the regional MDG road map.

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UNECE is responsible for the Statistical component

• Increased skills to produce and disseminate
  relevant disaggregated MDG indicators through
  effective cooperation of data producers at a
  national and international level in support of
  national statistical systems which are based on
  countries needs and sound methodologies.
• This component will have a focus on Central Asian
  countries
• UNECE will investigate the possibility of other
  Russian speaking NSOs to participate

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Financial scope of the Project

• Of a sum total of USD 593000 of the whole
  project
• the share for the Statistical component, having
  the lead of UNECE, has been decided to be USD
  95000
• With the funding of USD 95000 two Workshops can
  be organized

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Draft plan for Workshops (1)

• Workshop 1
• An expert group meeting to discuss and agree on a
  
• Common set of additional indicators that are
  relevant to development challenges of relevant
  sub-regions,
• especially Central Asia.
• Special attention will be given to
• identifying disaggregated data that are more
  relevant to inequality issues in the countries,
  such as
• data by geographic characteristics (urban/rural,
  sub-national areas) and
• individual variables (age, sex, ethnicity)

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Draft plan for Workshops (2)

• Workshop 2
• A training workshop in support of
• building capacity of national statistical offices
  and other MDG producing agencies
• especially for Central Asian and
• possibly also other Russian speaking countries to
  
• explore data availability and use,
• to agree upon mechanisms to share and coordinate
  data between producers of statistics and to
• improve coordinated dissemination of MDG
  indicators to different stakeholders

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Preliminary Timing Plan

• Workshop 1
• To take place in the first half of 2009
• Workshop 2
• To take place in the first half of 2010

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Detailed decisions still to be made

• The project has been in principle approved
• The implementation plan is under preparation
• Work on implementation will commence next autumn

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With Technical Cooperation to a brighter future

• Questions?
• Comments?
• Thank you for your attention!
• petteri.baer_at_unece.org