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| About PARIS21 - Work Program 2004-2006 |
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Work Program |
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| The work programme for the period 2004–2006 is the continuation of PARIS21 activities since its inception. It takes into account the conclusions of the evaluation and the recommendations from the regional workshops.The overall PARIS21 objective is to develop a culture of transparent, evidence-based policymaking and implementation which serves to improve government accountability and effectiveness in reducing poverty and achieving the MDGs. Since 1999 and the Experts Group meeting which established PARIS21, the essence of building national statistical capacity in developing countries lies in statisticians and policymakers combining to establish national statistical development plans and including them in their development and poverty reduction policies.
For the 2004–2006 period, PARIS21 is aiming to encourage all developing countries to have a National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) by 2006 and to have nationally owned and produced data for all MDG indicators by 2010. PARIS21 will support this objective through the following:
- Advocating at international and regional levels for the use of statistics for good governance, development and poverty reduction, and MDG monitoring;
- Convincing country policymakers of the need to develop an NSDS and to include the strategy in the overall development policy;
- Convincing partners to support and participate in the process, and once the strategy is approved, to coordinate their support within the strategy;
- Developing tools and methods to facilitate and conduct the process such as guidelines, best practices, indicators, reporting, etc. and organise training and information sharing; and
- Developing tools and methods to monitor the progress in strategy implementation made at country level and report on the overall progress in statistical capacity.
The work programme of the PARIS21 Secretariat for 2004–2006 will include activities at the global level and regional programmes. The global level includes activities related to developing appropriate tools, methods, and analysis to support the PARIS21 agenda through the Task Teams' work; developing advocacy materials and delivering the PARIS21 message to appropriate audiences through the Advocacy and Knowledge Base component; maintaining and developing tools to strengthen co-operation among various partners through the Partnership and Information Exchange component; and reporting at the regional and global level on the progress made and the way forward through Reporting. The PARIS21 agenda will be geared toward countries through Regional Programmes for Africa, Latin America including Caribbean countries, Arab States, Asia including Pacific, and Europe. |
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