MICS3 & Global Commitments

MICS3 Data Analysis and Report Writing

Overview

• Global reporting context

• Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

• World Fit For Children (WFFC)

• MICS3 and global commitments

• Uses of MICS at national level

Global Reporting Context

Past: World Summit for Children indicators only

Present: Many new international goals and targets

- World Fit For Children (WFFC)

- Millennium Development Goals (MDG)- UNGASS for HIV/AIDS- Abuja targets for malaria- Poverty Reduction Strategy Plans (PRSP)- UNICEF/MTSP

MDG Global Reporting Process

• Secretary-General issues an annual progress report based on the 48 MDG indicators, aggregated at the global and regional levels

• UN Statistics Division (UNSTAT) coordinates data analysis and maintains database on MDG indicators

website: www.millenniumindicators.un.org

MDG Global Reporting Process

• Lead agencies have been identified for each MDG indicator and submit summary progress reports on respective MDG indicators to UNSTAT

– UNICEF and WHO lead agencies for reporting on

health-related indicators

– UNICEF and other agencies on HIV/AIDS and education indicators

• UNSTAT prepares draft global report

• SG Office reviews/edits/publishes report

MDG Global Reporting Process

Joint estimates on health-related indicators – Under five mortality (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank)– Maternal mortality (WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA)– Malaria (WHO, UNICEF)– Water (WHO, UNICEF)– Sanitation (WHO, UNICEF)– Immunization (WHO, UNICEF)– HIV/AIDS (WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS)

MDG Global Reporting Process

• Status report – 5 years after Millennium Declaration adopted and 10 years before targets to be achieved

• Prepared by 25 UN agencies and international organizations

• Coordinated by UN Statistics Division

• Issued in June 2005

World Fit For Children (WFFC)

Declaration and Plan of Action

• “…We will regularly monitor at the national level and where appropriate, at the regional level, and assess progress towards the goals and targets in this plan of action at national, regional and global levels …” [para 60]

• “…As the world’s lead agency for children, UNICEF is requested to continue to prepare and disseminate. . . information on the progress made in the implementation of the Declaration and Plan of Action…” [para 61]

World Fit For Children (WFFC)

• Provide a global assessment of whether countries are on track to achieve WFFC objectives & targets

• Take stock of actions by governments, civil society and other stakeholders to achieve targets

• Draw attention to challenges in achieving targets

• Mobilize partners to accelerate progress towardachieving targets, particularly as they are milestones to achieving MDGs and other goals

Commemorative Session, September 2007Objectives:

World Fit For Children (WFFC)

Headquarters• One day General Assembly Session dedicated to

reviewing progress• Global progress report prepared by mid-2007

Regional• Regional meetings (inter-governmental bodies) - inclusion

of progress on WFFC

Country level• Countries to prepare progress reports by end-2006 with

UNICEF support– UNICEF Executive Director will send message to UN

missions and UNICEF representatives– Guidelines sent out by June 2006

Commemorative Session, September 2007Scope of Review:

World Fit For Children (WFFC)

Commemorative Session, September 2007

MICS & Global Commitments

Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)

MICS & Global Commitments

• MICS has become a key data source for monitoring the Millennium Development Goals, World Fit for Children, and other major international commitments, such as UNGASS and Abuja targets

• Key source of data for MDG monitoring (21 of the 53 MDG indicators can be collected in the current round of MICS – largest single source of data for MDG monitoring)

• Key source of data for A World Fit for Children Commemorative Session in 2007 (national,regional and global reporting on progress)

Role of MICS

Household Survey Activity

Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys - Round 3 (MICS3)

Surveys with MICS3 modules added on

MEASURE DHS+*

Other surveys

* Some of these surveys include MICS modules. Some of the surveys are non-measure DHS surveys.

2003-2006

Planned Activities

● Increased frequency of MICS – every three years instead of every five years

● Major analysis of MICS (and other household survey data) for WFFC commemorative session in 2007

● Ongoing updates of UNICEF global databases; data available on www.childinfo.org

Use of MICS at national level

• Track trends on key indicators for well-being of women and children

• Analyze disparities within sub-groups of the population

• Provide evidence base for improved policy formulation and programme planning

• Identify new areas of concern

Disparities

Access to sanitation by urban, rural

90%

70%

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Urban Rural

Azerbaijan

Underweight prevalence by gender

15%18%

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Male Female

48%

31% 32%

22%19%

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Disparity Analysis

Rural children nearly twice as likely to be underweight as urban children

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Disparity Analysis

No significant disparities in underweight prevalence between boys and girls, except in South Asia

Inform programme planning

Percentage0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

EthiopiaKenya

BurundiEquatorial Guinea

SudanZambia

UR TanzaniaCôte d'Ivoire

BeninSierra Leone

Sao Tome & Prin.Comoros

GhanaCameroon

Evidence based policy formulation

Anti-malarial treatment of children under five with fever

Changes in anti-malarial drug policies to ACTs