Report of Working Group on Report of Working Group on Governance, Peace and Security Governance, Peace and Security

StatisticsStatisticsof the Strategy for Harmonisation of the Strategy for Harmonisation

of Statistics for Africa (SHaSA)of Statistics for Africa (SHaSA)ByBy

Mr. Zachary MwangiDirector General

Kenya National Bureau of StatisticsPresented during

First Joint Session of Committee of Directors Generals of National Statistical Offices

(CoDGs) and Statistical Commission for Africa (STATCOM-AFRICA)

8-12 December 2014, Tunis, Tunisia

IntroductionIntroduction

STG1 is one of the13 thematic groups of Strategy for the Harmonisation of Statistics in Africa (SHASA).

It is chaired by KNBS

Its Secretariat is housed at the Statistics Division within the Economic Affairs Department of the African Union Commission (AUC).

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IntroductionIntroductionSTG1 is assisted by UNDP and others

stakeholders in accordance with SHaSA guidelines to implement its activities.

SHaSA functions under AUC, the African Development Bank (AfDB), and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), in collaboration with the Committee of Directors-General of African National Statistical Offices (CoDG).

CoDG is responsible for guiding and approving the overall implementation of SHaSA.

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Policy frameworks Policy frameworks informing work of STG1informing work of STG1The work of STG1 focuses on

assisting Africa’s NSOs, under CoDG guidance, to realize their comparative advantages in the collection of GPS data.

Sound and relevant official statistics are essential for decision-making, policy and programme management, and monitoring and evaluation

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Policy frameworks Policy frameworks informing work of STG1informing work of STG1

Measuring progress on the commitment to continent-wide integration and development, as undertaken by African leaders through various international treaties and processes, requires reliable and harmonized statistics

Such data are built upon a sound foundation of shared standards, common instruments, capacity for implementation and analysis in national statistics offices, and adequate human and financial resources.

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Policy frameworks Policy frameworks informing work of STG1informing work of STG1To address these challenges and

obstacles, SHaSA commits to four strategic themes:

1.Produce quality statistics for Africa2.Coordinate the production of quality

statistics for Africa3.Build sustainable institutional capacity

in the African Statistical System; and 4.Promote a culture of quality decision-

making.6

Policy frameworks Policy frameworks informing the work of informing the work of STG1STG1SHaSA identifies 13 strategic priority

thematic areas to be tackled, each of which is assigned to a Specialised Technical Group

Critically, the first-mentioned of the 13 is GPSS

STG I is mandated to develop and pursue an Action Plan, by which the four strategic themes will be tackled 7

Policy frameworks Policy frameworks informing work of STG1informing work of STG1

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West Africa

Central Africa

East Africa

North Africa

Southern Africa

Benin Cameroon

Ethiopia Algeria

Malawi

Cote d’Ivoire

Congo Madagascar

Egypt Mozambique

Ghana Gabon Uganda South Africa

Senegal Kenya

Table 1: Member countries of the STG1 by region

SUMMARIES OF THE WORKSHOP AND EVENTS SUMMARIES OF THE WORKSHOP AND EVENTS HELD BY STG HELD BY STG II

COUNTRY DATE PURPOSE OF THE EVENT

NAIROBI, KENYA

23-25 MAY 2012

Setting up of the working Group on GPS&SDesigning a roadmap to produce comparable and reliable statistics on GPS

DAKARSENEGAL

17-19 SEPT2012

To improve data collection, production and dissemination of GPS statisticsTo express needs and define guidelines on indicators, metadata and questionnaires developed by GPS

YAMOUSSOUKROCÔTE D’IVOIRE

28-29 NOV, 2012

Review and approve tools developed by the STGPropose the budget for implementation of its Action Plan Call for interested NSO’s that want to implement instruments developed by STG

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SUMMARIES OF THE WORKSHOP AND EVENTS SUMMARIES OF THE WORKSHOP AND EVENTS HELD BY STG HELD BY STG II

COUNTRY DATE PURPOSE OF THE EVENT

ABIDJANCÔTE D’IVOIRE

24 MAR 2013

Side event on the fringe of 2013 joint AU-ECA Conference of Ministers of Economy and FinanceEvent was to raise awareness on importance of governance, peace and security statistics for decision makers

DakarSenegaL

March 2013

Technical workshop to review and validate data collection instruments from administrative sources

Johannesburg South Africa

3-4 Dec2013

To assess progress made by the STG ITo review the roadmap

Praia, Cape Verde

May 2014

To develop a harmonized tabulation plan for the SHaSA GPS survey modules

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SUMMARIES OF THE WORKSHOP AND EVENTS HELD SUMMARIES OF THE WORKSHOP AND EVENTS HELD BY STG BY STG II

COUNTRY DATE PURPOSE OF THE EVENT

PRAIACAPE VERDE

6- 7 JUNE 2014

Launching results of the first pilot country by Cape VerdeConsolidate GPS data collection methodology using the Cape Verde case

PRAIACAPE VERDE

9-10 OCT2014

Discuss and Design the Terms of Reference for City Group on Governance statisticsTOR will be presented in March 2015 to the Assembly of the UN Statistics Commission for approval

PARISFRANCE

24-28 NOV2014

Data Analysis Workshop for Malian and Burundan statisticiansWorkshop conducted by DIAL/IRDThe 2 will also conduct more in-depth analysis of their SHaSA GPS datasets

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SUMMARIES OF THE WORKSHOP AND EVENTS SUMMARIES OF THE WORKSHOP AND EVENTS HELD BY STG HELD BY STG II

COUNTRY DATE PURPOSE OF THE EVENT

New York Side event held in New York along UN General Assembly to inform the world about African voice on GPSSJoint UNDP/AU/Saferworld Workshop entitled “towards regional and national statistical capacities for measuring peace, rule of law and governance: an agenda for the post-2015 sustainable development goals framework

Addis Ababa

June2014

Joint UNDP/AU/Saferworld meetingDuring this workshop, more than 20 African statistical offices debated on:How issues of governance, peace and security can be fitted in the post-2015 agenda andHow GPS can be measured

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Main achievements and Main achievements and key outputs producedkey outputs producedTwenty NSOs have officially

confirmed interest in piloting the SHaSA instruments for producing GPS statistics

Nine of them have already started to apply the data collection instruments

UNDP is currently supporting 5 pilot countries; one in each region of Africa

These are Cote d’Ivoire, Cape Verde, Malawi, Cameroon and Kenya 13

Main achievements and Main achievements and key outputs producedkey outputs produced

The countries are testing the applicability and relevance of the instruments across the continent before expanding the roll-out in 2015 and beyond

In addition to the 5 UNDP-supported pilots, 4 ‟self-starter” NSOs are also piloting the instruments, using their own resources

These include Mali, Uganda, Burundi and Tunisia.

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Recommendations to be Recommendations to be considered and taken by the considered and taken by the CoDGsCoDGsIt will also validate its technical work.Proposes the following resolutions to be

considered and taken by the CoDGs:Support pilots in 2015 by at least five

NSOs each per region for the five African regions

Each should conduct GPS HH survey module and

Administrative data collection instruments

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Recommendations to be Recommendations to be considered and taken by the considered and taken by the CoDGsCoDGsInception of GPSS Units in the

participating NSOs, in the concerned RECs, and in the Statistics Division within the AU Economic Affairs Department

Support the equipping, start-up and capacity-building for GPSS units in the respective NSOs, in the concerned RECs and in the AUC Statistics Division

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Recommendations to be Recommendations to be considered and taken by the considered and taken by the CoDGsCoDGsCall upon stakeholders to secure

funding for a regional project to support NSOs for the institutionalization of GPS data collection across the continent

Any other information related to key documents produced so far and progress made by the STG1 can be tracked on the AUC Statistics Division’s website: www.austat.org

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