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UNSD – DFID project: Future plans until Jan 2015 Improving the collation, availability and dissemination of development indicators (including the MDGs) Control of the Motivation to Capacity and Organisation dissemination maintain the resources to of the data in process, i.e. process maintain the the database ability to process repository easily receive updates and publish development indicators Availability of reference metadata in a handbook/rep ository/other Relationship with internal data providers, i.e. within your office Relationship Relationship with external with data data users providers, i.e. outside your office in other Government organisations Data and mapping follow-up International workshops • All project countries are invited to the 4th workshop • This will take place in Phnom Penh, 21 – 25 Apr • Aim is to resolve data & mapping issues and assist in the general use of technology • Further activities at the international level are being planned… Metadata & discrepancy follow-up Metadata follow-up • Establish full metadata exchange with all countries (either through SDMX/ handbook). - Once a first draft of the metadata handbook / document is complete, … - Continue to conduct follow-up events on metadata in project countries with participants from across National Statistical System (NSS) - Continuous process, shouldn’t stop with publication of a handbook feedback loop National Statistical Office Publish & register new data and metadata NSO to review and feedback in new data and metadata National Registry Notification & download s Upload, publish & visualise Step 1: Review of country data and metadata Review match with intl. series Step 4: Prepare report on explanations for country/ intl. agency Step 2: Classify series as “exact”, “consistent” or “discrepant” Step 3: Review metadata of “consistent” and “discrepant” series for explanations Indicator expansion • Expand the number of indicators (including nonMDGs), time series and observations exchanged with existing countries. • This takes significant time (update DSD) will work closely with interested countries (i.e. Palestine, Thailand and Viet Nam) Complete software development & upgrade Software • 1 remaining local country installations need to be upgraded to version 7 • An installer package is final piece of development under the software and will be used whenever a country wishes to update their software Advocacy & awareness raising Raising awareness • Planning of further launch events in country (where appropriate) • Project will continue to assist NSO to make project outputs relevant and useful to key users (i.e. Ministry of Planning/ Finance) and promote this approach. Installments from the MoU MoU Installments • New UN accounting rules require more frequent expenditure reporting • There is an expectation from UN/DESA finance certain documentation are provided; - Signed set of accounts for current expenditure AND forecast expenditure - These should mirror budget lines agreed in MoU and reported in local currency AND USD. - MoU provided estimates, so expenditure should be ‘in-line’ but not exact to those estimates - Important to notify of any change to bank account Evaluation Evaluation • Independent contractor chosen by UNSD and DFID • 4 countries chosen for visit to conduct specific case study • Start Summer to Autumn 2014 • Used to guide a future project Thank you for your attention Sources of further reference: http://data.un.org/countrydata http://data.un.org http://unstats.un.org