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User orientation in Capacity Development - United Nations · Irene Tuveng Head of Division for International Development Cooperation 1 User orientation in Capacity Development

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Page 1: User orientation in Capacity Development - United Nations · Irene Tuveng Head of Division for International Development Cooperation 1 User orientation in Capacity Development

Irene Tuveng

Head of Division for International Development Cooperation

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User orientation in Capacity Development

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The positive circle of development of statistics

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Improved production

and processing of

statistics

Better dissemination and analysis

More evidence

based decisions and

discussions

Increased demand for

statistics

Increased willingness to

allocate ressources to

statistics

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2 examples of a broad approach:

• Support to macroeconomic analysis and modelling

• CD on statistics under the Norwegian Oil for Development (OfD) programme

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Support to macroeconomic analysis and modelling

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• Purpose:

• Development of tailor made macroeconomic models that are based on all available statistics and relevant information.

• Development of institutional and human capacity for macroeconomic and fiscal analysis

• Develop routines so that macroeconomic analysis are directly linked to the annual budgeting processes and policy making in general

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How does this help statistical CD?

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• Identifies gaps in the NSS

• Increases demand and use

• Better quality

• Increases national funding

• CD on the user- and producer side

• Increases partnerships and cooperation across institutions

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Malawi Economic statistics

Business Survey

Business Register

National Accounts

Social statistics/Poverty

System for annual Welfare

Monitoring Survey

Annual Poverty estimation

Macro modelling

Development of model

Capacity in analysis

Link to budget process and

policy making

Institutional development

IT infrastructure,

Data storage and dissemination,

Statistical school

Management and HR

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Oil for Development (OfD)

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• Goal: Poverty reduction through responsible management of petroleum resources

• Holistic approach, combining management of resources, the environment, safety and revenue

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OfD - Building Partnerships

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• The Norwegian public institutions involved in the OfD Programme are:

• The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate

• Norwegian Environment Agency

• Petroleum Safety Authority Norway

• Norwegian Oil Taxation Office

• Norwegian Coastal Administration

• Statistics Norway

• Long term and broad based institutional cooperation with sister organisations in partner countries

• Other actors involved are consultancies and research institutions and multilateral actors such as the IMF and the World Bank.

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OfD - Statistics component Uganda

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• Cooperation between Uganda Bureau of Statistics and Statistics Norway

• Current 3 year program 2015-17: • Oil and gas investment statistics (survey)

• National accounts

• Statistical business register

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OfD – Statistics component Ghana

• Cooperation between Ghana Statistical Service, Ministry of Finance in Ghana and SN

• Development of economic statistics – Focus on the petroleum sector

– System for regular Business Surveys

– Develop infrastructure for a statistical business register

– Oil investments

– National Accounts

– Introduce supply and use tables

• Planning phase but some work has started

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OfD – Macroeconomic component Ghana • Develop a macroeconomic model

• From guesstimate sectoral growth rates

• To a model rooted in the national accounts

• Provide useful feedback to the producers of statistics

• Increase demand for new statistics

• Will start in April 2017

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Summing up

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• Build new partnerships in the effort of developing better NSS and capacity for statistics

• Work more directly with users

• Find new ways of aligning donor funding to statistics to prioritised political issues