1. CIS meeting Budapest 3-4 July 2013 Christophe Duhamel the Global Strategy to Improve Rural and Agricultural Statistics Integration of agriculture into NSS

2. Integrating agriculture into NSS (1) 4 elements: 1.Development of an integrated statistical system through design of a master sampling frame 2.Development of an integrated survey framework In particular linkages between agricultural and population censuses 3.Establishment of a data management system – Access to official statistics for dissemination purposes (CountrySTAT) – Storage and retrieval of surveys results 4.Design and implementation of SSPARS in the framework of NSDS 

3. Integrating agriculture into NSS (2) Design, implementation of SSPARS in the framework of NSDS NSDS: (National Strategies for the Development of Statistics) Long-term vision of statistical development of a country with a detailed and a costed action plan covering the entire production process of official statistics, developed in a participatory process Success depending on 4 factors: – strong commitment of the government – ownership of the country – mobilization of adequate funding – quality dialogue with technical and financial partners International benchmark – Only one country in Africa with no statistical strategy

4. Integrating agriculture into NSS (3) Design, implementation of SSPARS in the framework of NSDS SSPARS: (Sector Strategic Plan for Agricultural and rural statistics) = building block of agriculture into NSDS – Long-term vision of statistical development of a country in the agricultural sector with a detailed and costed action plan covering the whole production of official agricultural statistics, developed through a participatory process – SSPARS are integrated into the overall NSDS process where countries have already a strategy – SSPARS may be designed independently when countries do not have an NSDS

5. Process  Country assessments  National Sector Plans (Specific guidelines)  Helping the region a s a whole (workshops)  Helping target countries to design SSPARS and develop integrated statistical system  Helping countries to build mechanisms for implementing SSPARS