Kaushal Joshi

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Use of MDG Indicators and Statistics by ADB
International Conference on Millennium
Development Goals Statistics Hotel Dusit Thani,
Manila, Philippines 21-10-2011

• Kaushal Joshi
• Senior Statistician
• Development Indicators and Policy Research
  Division,
• Economics and Research Department,
• Asian Development Bank, Manila

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Outline

• Introduction About ADB
• Strategies, sectoral interventions, resource
  allocations and MDGs
• Managing for Development Results
• Monitoring regional MDG progress
• Research, knowledge and statistics

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Introduction About ADB

• Development Financial Institution
• Strategy 2020
• ADBs long-term strategic framework
• Vision
• An Asia and Pacific Region free of poverty
• Mission
• To help its DMCs reduce poverty and improve
  living conditions and quality of life

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Introduction About ADB (2)

• Three complementary strategic agendas
• Inclusive growth
• Environmentally sustainable growth
• Regional cooperation and integration

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Introduction About ADB (3)

• Core areas of operations

• Other areas of operations

• Infrastructure
• Environment, including climate change
• Regional cooperation and integration
• Finance sector development
• Education

• Health
• Agriculture
• Disaster and emergency assistance

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Strategies, sectoral interventions, resource
allocations and MDGs

• MDGs endorsed in 2002 and remain key motivators
  of ADBs corporate strategy.
• MDGs are mainstreamed in the Country Partnership
  Strategy (CPS).
• MDGs influence sectoral interventions and
  analytical work and overall country operational
  objectives.
• CPS results framework, which contains MDG
  indicators and statistics, provides a basis for
  resource allocation.
• ADBs poverty reduction efforts are aligned with
  MDGs around NPRS/PRSP in partnership with
  Governments, NGOs/Civil Society and developments
  partners.

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Strategies, sectoral interventions, resource
allocations and MDGs (2)

• Supporting achievement of MDGs is integrated into
  the Work Program and Budget Framework (WPBF)
  2010-2012.
• ADF X operations, which cover the first 4 years
  of Strategy 2020, will help DMCs to achieve the
  MDG targets by 2015.
• Over the past 6 years, ADF has helped some of the
  poorest countries in Asia and the Pacific help
  achieve MDGs in various ways.

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Strategies, sectoral interventions, resource
allocations and MDGs (3)

• Education, Energy and Transport

• Water, Sanitation and Finance

• gt 135,000 classrooms built/upgraded
• gt 660,000 teachers trained
• gt 21 million school students
• Installed 300 megawatts of new generating
  capacity
• gt 34,127 kilometers (km) of transmission/distribut
  ion lines
• gt 44,300 km of roads, benefitting gt 211 million
  people through faster travel times, new economic
  opportunities, and improved access to essential
  services

• gt 17,800 km of water supply pipes
• gt than 269,000 households upgraded sanitation
  facility, resulting in health and livelihood
  gains for more than 920,000 households
• Number of new microfinance accounts and borrowers
  increased to gt 2.7 million
• Expanded the number of new small- and
  medium-sized loan accounts and borrowers to
  400,000
• Supported projects and programs which directly
  target gender equality and women empowerment

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Managing for Development Results Corporate
Results Framework
Poverty, human development, growth
Level 1 Development progress in Asia and the
Pacific
Level 2 Are we contributing?
Outputs
Level 3 Are we managing operations effectively?
Quality, finance, focus, knowledge, partnerships
Level 4 Are we managing organization effectively?
People, budget, processes
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• Level 1 Regional outcomes (MDGIs)

• Level 2 Outputs indicators

• MDG 1.1 Population living on less than 1.25
  (PPP) per day ()
• MDG 3.1 Ratio of girls to boys in primary,
  secondary, and tertiary education
• MDG 3.2 Women in nonagricultural wage employment
  ()
• MDG 4.1 Under-five mortality rate (per 1,000 live
  births)
• MDG 7.8 Proportion of population using an
  improved drinking water source () but more on
  urban/rural disaggregation
• MDG 7.9 Proportion of population using an
  improved sanitation facility () but more on
  urban/rural disaggregation

• Education
• Classrooms built or upgraded Teachers trained
  Students benefitting from school improvement
  programs
• Energy
• Installed energy generation capacity
  Transmission and Distribution lines
  installed/upgraded New households connected with
  electricity GHG emissions reduction
• Finance
• Microfinance accounts opened or end borrowers
  reached Small and medium enterprises loan
  accounts opened or end borrowers reached
• Transport
• Expressways build or upgraded National/Provincial
  /District/Rural roads built or upgraded
• Water and Sanitation
• Water supply pipes installed/upgraded New
  household served with water supply Waste water
  treatment capacity added New households served
  with sanitation Land improved through irrigation
  services, drainage and flood management

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Monitoring Regional MDG Progress

• Partnership with UNDP and ESCAP to support MDG
  progress tracking, raise awareness, and improve
  policies and institutions involved in achieving
  MDGs.
• Joint Asia-Pacific MDG Reports for regional
  assessment as input to the global UN MDG
  assessment.
• 2010/11 report focused on overall priorities and
  opportunities and on hunger and food security
  health and basic services and improvement of
  basic infrastructure.

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Research, knowledge and statistics

• Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific Annual
  statistical flagship publication.
• Special chapters on regional policy relevant
  issues (poverty inequality, quality employment)
• Statistical tables and statistical commentaries
  on progress assessment
• Statistical Database system (SDBS) available for
  external users access (http//www.adb.org/statisti
  cs/sdbs.asp)
• Framework of Inclusive Growth Indicators (FIGI)
  consists of 35 indicators, 10 of which are MDG
  indicators.

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Research, knowledge and statistics

• Statistical Capacity Building
• Improving administrative data sources for MDG
  indicators (Handbook on Use of Administrative
  Data Sources).
• Measuring informal employment and the informal
  sector.
• International Comparison Program (ICP) provides
  inputs for the computation/
• compilation of PPP-based poverty line (e.g.,
  1.25PPP).

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In summary

• MDGs indicators are important motivator of
  corporate strategy, work program and results
  framework.
• MDGs are mainstreamed into country strategies and
  business plans.
• ADB operations and knowledge work help countries
  attain MDGs in the region.
• ADB plays important role with regional partners
  to monitor progress of MDGs in the region.

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• kjoshi_at_adb.org
• 63 2 632 5969
• www.adb.org

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