1. Advancing Statistics for Development Role of Technical Cooperation ASEAN Regional Workshop for Strategic Statistical Planning: Towards a Stronger ASEAN Community Statistical System Jakarta, 28-29 November 2012

2. Statistics@ESCAP An overview

3. The United Nations Statistical System ESCAP Secretariat Statistics Division ECOSOC UN Statistical Commission ESCAP Committee on Statistics ESCAP Commission UN Secretariat (DESA) UNSD -from an Asia-Pacific biased perspective

4. Secretariat: Technical support; Capacity development; Information & analysis; Facilitation 2020 Strategy Population, economic, social & environment statistics Modernized statistical information systems Support and commitment Resolutions Guidance & implementation Bureau Steering Groups: –Economic statistics –Agricultural statistics Advisory Group on social statistics Working Group on statistical training ESCAP Committee on Statistics

5. Capacity development Production & dissemination of basic statistics Economic; agricultural; vital; social NSS operations Advisory services; modernization of SIS Training SIAP Information & analysis Statistical analysis Millennium Development Goals; Sustainable Development Goals Statistical information services Statistical Yearbook Data Advocacy ESCAP Statistics Programme Facilitation & consultation Partnership for Statistics Development; Committee with Bureau and Steering Groups; Governing Council of SIAP

6. Capacity development Technical assistance … Technical cooperation … Capacity building …Capacity development

7. Capacity Development: Conceptual framework Levels of capacityInfluencing factors Instituti onal Organizational Individual Macro-economic conditions Governance systems Legal & regulatory frameworks Political will Social & cultural norms Psychological dimensions Vision, Leadership, Strategy Informal systems of rewards & sanctions Relationships Human resources Physical resources Financial resources Knowledge, skills & attitudes Aptitudes Beliefs & values Stiles Associate Inc, 2007

8. Country action Support system -National, regional, global -Technical assistance, training, exchange of experiences, methodology, tools, analysis, data Capacity Development: Approach

9. Economic Statistics: An example Development of a Core Set (common framework) Development of a Regional Programme Implementation Plan –Mix of national action and regional support –NSDS as the basis –Development of sector plans for economic statistics –Regional support designed on the basis of national action plans Regional Steering Group –Member States and development partners Secretariat –Coordination, fundraising, advocacy

10. Strength –History of common standards, frameworks, harmonization –Solid inter-governmental framework –Uniform results reference for capacity development work Weakness –Tendency to focus on the technical “what” –The “how” and “who” sometimes suffer –Capacity development is about people and institutions NSDS and RSDS –Building on strength; ddressing weakness –The stronger the NSSs, the stronger the ASEAN Community Statistical System Capacity development: The statistical community

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