P ARTNERSHIP IN S TATISTICS FOR D EVELOPMENT IN THE 21 ST C ENTURY Issues Relating to Funding Statistical Development at the Country Level 19 February.

PARTNERSHIP IN STATISTICS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY

PARTNERSHIP IN STATISTICS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Issues Relating to Funding Statistical Development at the Country Level

19 February 2011 – New York

Current trends in funding statistical development

Main challenges

Responding to those challenges

Outline of Presentation

Impact of the Financial Crisis

Current Trends in Funding Statistical Development

Figure: Comparison of Global Estimated Commitments over Past Three PRESS Rounds

However …

Impact of the Financial Crisis

Current Trends in Funding Statistical Development

RegionCommitments (US$ thousands)

2008 2009 2010

Africa 137,147 72,865 24,269

Asia 76,801 107,027 134,587

Europe 11,131 14,591 13,267

Latin America and Caribbean 40,553 9,686 5,155

Unallocated* 70,486 21,938 5,370

Total 336,118 226,108 182,649

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Impact of the Financial Crisis

Current Trends in Funding Statistical Development

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Current Trends in Funding Statistical DevelopmentTable: Estimated Commitments to Main

Recipient Countries, 2008–10

Recipient Country Total Commitments (US$ thousands)

Nigeria 184,063India 112,299Mozambique 58,854Afghanistan 44,229Kenya 43,563Sudan 33,524Ukraine 32,611Haiti 28,254Ethiopia 26,875Tanzania 26,441Malawi 24,177Pakistan 22,378Albania 21,377Burkina Faso 19,806Mali 19,589

Commitments to these 15 countries combined to equal 45% of total estimated commitments worldwide and 48% of total country-specific commitments.

Aid Concentration

Aid Fragmentation (too little aid from too many donors)

Four types of aid relationships:

•Concentrated and important: The donor gives more aid to the recipient country than its global share of aid would suggest and is among the donors that combine to account for at least 90% of the recipient country’s aid.•Concentrated: The donor gives more aid to the recipient country than its global share of aid would suggest but it is nevertheless among the donors that combine to account for less than 10% of the recipient country’s aid.•Important: The donor gives less aid to the recipient country than its global share of aid would suggest but is among the donors that combine to account for at least 90% of the recipient country’s aid.•Non-significant: The donor gives less aid to the recipient country than its global share of aid would suggest and is among the donors that combine to account for less than 10% of the recipient country’s aid.

Current Trends in Funding Statistical Development

37.5% of aid relationships among top 15 recipients were “non-significant”.

These relationships represented 4.0% of aid to statistics to these countries.

This means that more than more than one-third (1/3) of aid relationships accounted for one-twenty-fifth (1/25) of financial aid to statistics.

Current Trends in Funding Statistical Development

Aid Fragmentation (too little aid from too many donors)

Current Trends in Funding Statistical Development

NB: To appreciate these figures, it is important to recognise the percentage of countries that are either implementing or designing an NSDS: 91% of PRESS countries in Africa, 74% in Asia, 69% in LAC, and 100% in Europe.

Aid Alignment with NSDS

Aligned? % of responses Share of Global Commitments

Yes 50% 31%

No 6% 4%

Don’t Know 44% 8%

Only 19% of projects reported in the PRESS responded to the alignment question. These figures use total global commitments as their denominator.

Main Challenges

The Impact of the Economic Downturn on the Delivery of Official StatisticsSTATISTICAL INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA -- July 2009

• It is not business as usual!! With limited financial & other resources, the NSOs are going to find the operating environment to be very challenging.

• The Head of the NSO will have to be: – a leader who will direct the operations into new areas –

previously uncharted waters– A good manager – to manage scarce & limited resources to get

maximum returns– A good communicator – in order to expand his/her

relationships and contacts

• Some old traditions should be reviewed – it may become necessary to separate the managerial/leadership functions from the technical aspects of the CEO’s job function.

Main Challenges

• Fragility (sociopolitical, financial, environmental, etc.)

• Low Profile of Statistics

• Quality of NSDSs

• Low capacity to mobilise and co-ordinate funds

Facing the Challenges

NSDS Quality Assessment Framework

Evaluations: Quality assessment & relevance of strategies - African Development Bank- CENTROESTAD – Central America- World Bank / PARIS21

Study on Costing NSDSs

Updating NSDS Guidelines

Quality of NSDSs

Strengthening Local Capacities To Mobilise Funds

National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS)

strategy for strengthening statistical capacity across the entire NSS framework for mobilising, harnessing, and leveraging national and

international resources

Country Report on Support to Statistics (CRESS)

inventory of all support, both from external partners and from domestic resources, to the NSS

Useful starting point from which NSDS designers, NSS managers, and donors can begin a dialogue on identifying priority areas for technical and financial support

Strengthening Local Capacities To Mobilise Funds

Advocacy

Means to convince policy-makers, civil society, media, NGOs and representatives of multilateral and bilateral agencies in developing countries of the importance of statistics in the wider context of development

National Partnerships

alliance of local governments, other stakeholders and donors at country level means for providing co-ordinated support to implement agreed NSDSs and

reduce reporting burden on recipient countries

The Impact of the Economic Downturn on the Delivery of Official StatisticsSTATISTICAL INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA -- July 2009

• It is not business as usual!! With limited financial & other resources, the NSOs are going to find the operating environment to be very challenging.

• The Head of the NSO will have to be: – a leader who will direct the operations into new areas –

previously uncharted waters– A good manager – to manage scarce & limited resources to get

maximum returns– A good communicator – in order to expand his/her

relationships and contacts

• Some old traditions should be reviewed – it may become necessary to separate the managerial/leadership functions from the technical aspects of the CEO’s job function.

PARTNERSHIP IN STATISTICS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY

PARTNERSHIP IN STATISTICS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY

A final question: Are regional and international programmes experiencing similar issues in

obtaining funding?

PARTNERSHIP IN STATISTICS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY

PARTNERSHIP IN STATISTICS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Thank you