The co-ordination of aid to statistics and the establishment of an international partnership is one of the main purposes of PARIS21. The PARIS21 partnership provides a forum for dialogue on supporting statistical development and shares tools to make this co-ordination a reality.

The PARIS21 Secretariat produces a Global Directory of Partners in Statistical Capacity Building, which gives information on all development partners active in supporting statistical capacity building. The directory sets out summary information on each partner's overall goals and objectives; their main areas of intervention, with a special focus on statistical capacity building; and institutional contacts.

The directory is produced in the context of the Partner Report on Support to Statistics (PRESS) exercise, which collects and analyses information on support to statistical development by financial and technical partners. The PRESS produces multi-volume, annual reports on aid to statistics.

These reports are produced by PARIS21 as tools for improved collaboration among the development community and recipient countries. This is in line with the Accra Agenda for Action and Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, which advocates strong commitments to harmonise and align aid delivery by multilateral and bilateral development institutions.

PARIS21 also organises high-level meetings of statisticians and policy-makers from developed and developing countries, as well as multilateral institutions, to develop a common understanding of what constitutes an appropriate approach to building statistical capacity. The 2009 PARIS21 Consortium meeting is an example of such a meeting.

The pages under our site's "Partnership" heading present these valuable tools.