The Busan Action Plan for Statistics: An Update on the Implementation

Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities Frankfurt, September 17 – 19, 2012 Shaida Badiee, Director, Development Economics Data Group, World Bank

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Focus is now on implementation

BAPS endorsed at the Busan HLF4 (December, 2011) and the UNSC (March, 2012) BAPS has five actions to support three objectives: i.

Integrate Statistics into decision-making ii.

Promote open access iii.

Increase resource base Each action encompasses a range of possible activities at the national, regional, & global level.

Implementation activities could be “vertical” or “horizontal” PARIS21 Board Meeting – 28 March, 2012 Paris, France 2

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BAPS Implementation principles

Requires collective effort & political leadership Should be country led Uses existing partnerships & agencies Results will be monitored Implementation roadmap is flexible and responsive, based on broad consultation 3 PARIS21 Board Meeting – 28 March, 2012 Paris, France

Priorities from consultations

• Sample of developing countries: align activities through the NSDS, need stable funding, improve data accessibility, training, & communication with users • UNSC: improve accessibility of statistics, gender statistics, agricultural statistics, and consider special needs of fragile and small states • Regional Entities: advocate use of stats in decision making, consolidate training activities, improve NSDSs • Users: Focus on results, improve M&E systems, more accessible and better sub-national and micro data.

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Implementation steps underway

Task team on BAPS implementation Re-focusing of NSDSs • Supporting countries with open data initiatives • Gender Statistics (“EDGE”) • Agriculture Statistics (Implementing the Global Strategy) • Geospatial information management • Innovative programs to gather high frequency data on household welfare • ECASTAT – a new partnership for regional statistical capacity building in Europe and CIS countries • Many IFIs re-focusing their WP and strategic approaches 5

Governance

• PARIS21 governance arrangements revised • PARIS21 to act as BAPS secretariat • Task Team to help in the short term • PARIS21 EC and Board to review shifts in BAPS priorities and assess implementation progress • Report progress as well as receive support from post-Busan Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (WP/EFF) and the UNSC PARIS21 Board Meeting – 28 March, 2012 Paris, France 6

Financing requirements and instruments

• Key initiatives have sound financing (Agriculture and Gender) • Other initiatives not expensive (NSDS updating, Open Data initiatives in countries, pilot high frequency stats, PARIS21 strengthening) • RDBs to rely on current financing instruments • World Bank is re-purposing TFs 7 PARIS21 Board Meeting – 28 March, 2012 Paris, France

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Monitoring

• Monitoring aided by BAPS log frame and indicators for specific implementation initiatives • Monitoring of the Busan Partnership for Effective ▫ ▫ Development Cooperation It has been suggested to include an indicator on statistics (such as the SCI) Work still in progress, but not likely that statistics will be a stand alone progress indicator PARIS21 Board Meeting – 28 March, 2012 Paris, France