Improving Statistics for Measuring Development Outcomes

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Improving Statistics for Measuring Development
Outcomes

• Demand for Statistics from DFID Perspective
• National data to inform and monitor country
  poverty reduction strategies
• Global monitoring of Progress towards the
  Millennium Development Goals
• Outcome Based Development, Managing for Results,
  Millennium Challenge Account, DFIDs Public
  Services Agreement

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Improving Statistics for Measuring Development
Outcomes

• Perceived Problems
• Lack of country level statistics which are
  timely, appropriate and good quality
• Discrepancies between national statistics and
  statistics present in global data bases
• Discrepancies between statistics held by
  international agencies
• Implications

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Improving Statistics for Measuring Development
Outcomes

•  Looking ahead - possible conference outcomes
• Clear mutual understanding of specific problems
  constraining the development communitys ability
  to monitor development outcomes
• Agreement on the issues which need to be
  addressed
• Roadmap leading to agreed action plan

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Improving Statistics for Measuring Development
Outcomes

• PARIS 21 task team
• June 2002 WB round table meeting on results based
  management identified a need to improve national
  and international monitoring systems as a
  priority. Bank and Eurostat set up P21 task team
  with aim of identifying key actions and
  activities to improve both global and national
  data availability and use.
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• Study To provide information on current national
  and international statistical systems and
  practices to help the task team, and development
  community more widely, identify actions and
  activities needed to improve currently available
  statistics. Two elements to the study
  International six country studies. OPM
  contracted to carry out the international work
  and preliminary work on country studies