How can International Community help

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How can International Community help

• Session 3
• Input from Statistics Sweden

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On Statistics Sweden

• Statistics Sweden is a well developed National
  Statistical Office and is in the frontline in
  many areas of statistics.
• Statistics Sweden has a long experience from
  technical assistance in statistics.
• Most of our projects are long-term ( 2-3 years)
  of institutional co-operation.

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On Statistics Sweden

• However, Statistics Sweden is not a donor agency.
  
• Most of our projects are financed through Sida,
  the Swedish Development Aid Authority. Others are
  funded by World Bank, EU, UN.

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On Sida

• Sida, the Swedish Development Aid Authority is
  supporting development of public administration
  in many countries.
• Sida has a good understanding of the important
  role of statistics for development and is
  supporting statistics in many countries.

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Current projects

• Kyrgyz Republic
• Current project will be finalized in October this
  year. Sida seems to be willing to finance an
  additional period of co-operation.
• Subjects are
• Service statistics
• Management issues
• IT, Database development
• Time use survey

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Current projects

• Kazakhstan
• Current project will be finalized in October this
  year. A short scaling down period might be
  needed.
• Subjects
• Living conditions for disabled persons
• Population Register
• Labour Cost Index

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Current projects

• Armenia
• A project is just finalized and a new project
  will be started fairly soon.
• Subjects
• Farm register
• Living conditions for disabled persons
• Time use survey
• Environmental statistics

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Current projects

• Azerbaijan
• A project has just been finalized and a contract
  for a new 3 year period is just signed.
• Subjects
• IT, local network and equipment
• Energy statistics
• Survey on street children
• Time use and gender statistics

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Current projects

• Russia
• A current project on gender statistics and time
  use statistics will bwe finalized by November
  this year