James Whitworth Head, International Statistical Co-operation Eurostat, European Commission International Forum on Monitoring National Development, Beijing, People

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ASTRA An IT tool for the Assessment for
Statistical TRAining
James WhitworthHead, International Statistical
Co-operationEurostat, European
CommissionInternational Forum on Monitoring
National Development, Beijing, Peoples Republic
of China27 29 September 2011
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ASTRA Objectives (general)

• Increase the availability of people who are
  trained to use, produce and manage statistics by
• 1. Integrating training within capacity building
  actions as part of medium-term statistics
  strategies, based on NSDSs
• 2. Targeting proposals for statistical training
• 3. Identifying how training institutes can
  sustainably meet the demand for
  statistics-related training

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What ASTRA can do

• ASTRA can analyse demand for statistics training
  to facilitate development of national training
  plans that make best use of training / human
  resources budget.
• ASTRA can analyse demand for statistics training
  providers to enable matching demand with supply.
• ASTRAs outputs are consistent reports.
• Hence, ASTRA is useful for preparing a NSDS
  implementation plan.
• Future putting ASTRA on the Eurostat website for
  free and presenting the tools in countries
  regional organisations.

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? ASTRA (new tool) Assessment of
Statistical Training
Managing the statistical training demand in
developing countries
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Managing the statistical training demand in
developing countries
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ASTRA pilot implementations

• 2009 Tanzania Senegal
• 2010 South Africa Mali Liberia
• 2011 Ethiopia AGROST Mozambique Paris
  CODESA

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Next steps 2012 - 3

• IT Regular Maintenance and debugging of ASTRA
• Incorporate comments from users, including
  corrective maintenance and project management
• Introduce improvements into different modules
• Guidance for ASTRA users in a helpdesk.
• Practical fieldwork application of the tool,
  mobilisation of partners through the promotion of
  ASTRA
• Organise national or regional one-week workshops
  to be held in 6 different countries (4 in 2012
  and 2 in 2013)
• Analyse and discuss the output of ASTRA identify
  the changes needed for the improvement of the
  tool.

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Thank you

• James Whitworth
• Head, International Statistical Co-operation
• Eurostat, European Commission
• james.whitworth_at_ec.europa.eu