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Regional Implementation Plan for the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics in Asia and the Pacific - From global strategy to national action Jillian Campbell United Nations ESCAP
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Global Strategy and Asia-Pacific ESCAP Committee on Statistics, December 2010: Decision to develop a Regional Implementation Plan for the Global Strategy Established the Steering Group for Agricultural Statistics to guide the development of the plan (established by the ESCAP Statistics Committee together with APCAS) 14 Asia-Pacific countries and 8 intl. organizations are currently represented on the Steering Group: –Including SPC, and Samoa –ADB, FAO Regional Office and ESCAP are partners in developing and implementing the plan –FAO & ESCAP serve as joint secretariat
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Regional implementation plan Three components: Technical assistance FAO Regional Office Training ESCAP Research ADB
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Regional Implementation Plan Implementation through country action plans based on national assessments –Flexibility to support specific country needs and priorities Country priorities Supported regionally -Technical assistance, research, training With global guidance and support -Leverage funding, knowledge base, global guidance
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Country action plan development (pilot stage) Methodological studies which can geed back into developing implementation at a regional and global level Consultative process among national level stakeholders Strengthened with technical assistance and international/regional guidance
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Country assessment phase Tool for assessing and monitoring current statistical capacity and statistical training needs Many countries in the Pacific have very limited capacity to produce core agriculture statistics Based on the results the Steering group has identified four main outputs for the regional plan –1. Skilled manpower –2. Well coordinated NSS –3. Available and adequate resources (budget, HR, infrastructure) –4. Available and adequate ICT facilities
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Next steps and timeline Complete implementation plan must be ready by September for consideration by first APCAS, and then ESCAP Committee on Statistics Development of the country action plans Advocacy, country consultation and information sharing throughout process
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