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The emerging Post-2015 Development
Agenda: friend or foe of National
Statistical Systems (NSS)?
SADC Regional Workshop: Better dialogue on
statistics for better development results
14 October 2013
Maputo, Mozambique
Johannes Jütting
PARIS21
National Statistical Systems & Post-2015
1. WHAT LESSONS FROM THE MDG PROCESS ?
2. WHAT PRIORITIES ARE EMERGING FOR POST2015?
3. FRIEND OR FOE OF NSS?
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1. WHAT LESSONS FROM THE MDG PROCESS ?
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Achievements
 Increased data use & enhancing status of data.
 Great strides in fostering co-ordination (evidence: BAPS,
PRESS, regional, within country-donor partnerships).
 NSDSs design and implementation.
 Dissemination of micro-data and co-ordination of surveys
(ADP and IHSN achievements).
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Misalignment: global monitoring needs and
national systems
Percentage of pupils starting Grade 1 who
reach last grade of primary
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Administrative
NSO
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Some statistics left behind…and
communication challenges
Source: Ghana Statistical Service, 2013
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Lessons learnt
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MDG monitoring overall positive impact on national
capacity…
— More surveys, data and statistics available
— Countries following up after donors left
— Statistical capacity efforts – NSDS as strategic
approach
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…but created some new problems
— National data often not used
— Methodological issues – reconciliation, estimation
— “Crowding out”? – donors (dis?)incentives
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2. WHAT PRIORITIES ARE EMERGING FOR POST2015?
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New goals aren’t being negotiated yet
Special Event on
Post-2015 at 68th
UNGA (Sept 2013)
call for one set of universal goals
for sustainable development
OWG on
Sustainable
Development
Launched at RIO+20, will
delivery final report at 69th
UNGA
Committee of
Experts on SD
Financing
Launched at RIO+20, will
delivery final report at 69th
UNGA
69th UNGA
(Sept 2014)
Official launch of
intergovernmental negotiations
of Post-2015 framework
70th UNGA
(Sept 2015)
Special High-level Event on Post2015 framework
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NSSs will be in the spotlight: a call to
actions from the highest level
WANTED: a Data Revolution
“A true data revolution would draw on existing and new
sources of data to fully integrate statistics into decision
making, promote open access to, and use of, data and
ensure increased support for statistical systems.”
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Sound familiar?
Call for data revolution comes from Busan Action Plan
on Statistics, that seeks to :
Fully integrate statistics in decision making
Promote open access to and use of data
Increase resources for statistical systems
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Some priorities are emerging, with
important consequences for NSSs
For example:
 More use of national data for new goals:
— Jobs
— Education (potentially on quality)
69th UNGA
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Disaggregation of existing data to measure:
— Getting to zero poverty
— Impact on women and girls
— Impact on inequality
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New indicators for new areas:
— Sustainable development
— Governance
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3. FRIEND OR FOE OF NSS?
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Strengthening national capacity is a key
element of any data revolution
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National ownership, benefit the people, build on
what we have
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Reduces the risk of “crowding out / in” ;
unsustainable financing
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Better data, better policies?
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Innovations not only in data but also in capacity
building e.g. skill development
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New demands for NSS
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New data needs, e.g. as outlined above
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New institutional arrangements/ opening up
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Use of new technology
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From dialogue to partnerships?
Private
official
Public
nonofficial
User
Producer
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Friend or Foe? We don’t know, yet
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YOU need to get engaged on various levels – national,
regional and international!
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For NSSs, key debates are:
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Short-term need for baseline vs. long-term need
for measurement capacity
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Data for national/sub-national decision marking
and targeting vs. international comparison
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Conclusion: Historic window of
opportunity to garner support for NSS
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Political will to support statistics at an historic high
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Public/ popular support also growing fast with new
actors keen to support good data - Foundations,
CSOs, private companies
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Statistics needed to manage emerging challenges like
financial stability and climate change
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New tools/approaches create new opportunities
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Are YOU ready to address the
challenge?
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PARIS21 stands ready to help!
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