1. UNSD – DFID project: Country Directors’ Meeting 15 – 17 October 2014 Improving the collation, availability and dissemination of development indicators (including the MDGs)

2. Implementation History 2010 - 2014

3. Project Timeline: 2010 Project meeting, Steering Committee meeting (February) Kick-off meetings for the Asian region (March) and African region (October) Assessment missions in Cambodia, Kenya, Thailand MoU signed with Cambodia, implementation starts Procurement completed for implementation in Cambodia Development of prototype data exchange system and CountryData web site

4. Project Timeline: 2011 Project meeting (February) Assessment missions in remaining countries First version of data exchange system, test data exchange with Cambodia Continue development of SDMX Registry and related modules for DevInfo v6 Design, development, testing of data exchange platform and CountryData Web site CountryData goes live Implementation starts in Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda

5. Project Timeline: 2012 Project meeting (February) Kenya, Tanzania replaced with Ghana, Palestine Ongoing development, refinement of CountryData Data exchange with 9 countries; 10 repositories online MoUs in place in 7 countries 3 national metadata workshops conducted Workshop on advanced XML Technologies Training, installation missions Major overhaul of DevInfo -DevInfo v7 released -SDMX Registry redesigned -SDMX Mapping Tool developed for the project

6. Project Timeline: 2013 Project meeting, Steering Committee meeting (February) 4 global workshops (Mar, Jul, Nov), 1 int’l workshop on advanced IT technologies (Oct) 1 UNSD-ESCWA joint international workshop 2 national metadata workshops 2 country study visits Data exchange with all 11 countries incl customized solutions in Thailand, Morocco Metadata exchange with 7 countries Ongoing refinement of DevInfo SDMX Registry and Mapping Tool Ongoing development of CountryData

7. Project Timeline: 2014 Project extended until January 2015 Project meeting, Steering Committee meeting (Mar) CountryData & UNdata SDMX API goes live CountryData integrated with MDG Labs, new version goes live Final global workshop (Apr) Ongoing work on metadata in Ghana, Uganda, Liberia, Morocco, other countries Work on SDMX visualizations

8. Summary of activities As at 1 October 2014, the following activities are completed: - 7 countries with MoUs (5 active/ ongoing) - 4 international workshops (completed) - 12 SDMX installation/ training missions (1 in planning) - 16 DSG consultancy missions (5 jointly with UNSD) - 6 Metadata national workshops conducted - 4 countries made study visits - 2 launch events organised by country

9. Summary of outputs As at 1 October 2014, the following outputs are completed: - All project countries feature in CountryData; - Over 400 indicators, almost 800 time series and over 4,500 observations exchanged; - 7 countries now share metadata, 4 drafts still ‘pending’; - Full MDG discrepancy analysis completed for Burundi, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Palestine, Rwanda, Thailand and Viet Nam.

10. Oct 2014 onwards…

11. Project completion timeline - Project evaluation begins: September 2014 - Directors’ Meeting to discuss implementation and future ideas: 15 – 17 October 2014 - MoU and all project activities to end: 31 October 2014 (by 30 November on an exceptional basis) - Evaluation visits to Ghana (Nov), Rwanda/ Uganda (Nov/Dec), Lao PDR/ Cambodia/ Thailand (Dec) + Skype interviews/ SurveyMonkey questionnaire - Official end dateline: 31 January 2015 - 46 th Statistical Commission (3 – 6 March 2015): Presentation of Evaluation Findings

12. Output targets

13. Identification of priority indicators 10 countries selected MDGs as starting point for the project; 1 country started with a set of mainly non- MDGs (Cambodia) And 3 countries (Palestine & Viet Nam) wish to expand beyond MDGs

14. Central data repository (platform) Data repository status as of October 2014; Country NameTypeStatus Linked from main websiteHostedVersion Latest Data Last Regist. BurundiDevInfoOnlineYDSG6/72011Feb-14 CambodiaDevInfoOnlineYLocal72012Apr-14 GhanaDevInfoOnlineYLocal62011Nov-13 Lao PDRDevInfoOnlineYLocal6/72012Mar-14 LiberiaDevInfoOnlineYDSG72007Nov-13 MoroccoOtherOfflineN/A 2010Jan-14 State of PalestineDevInfoOnlineYLocal72012Nov-13 RwandaDevInfoOnlineYDSG72012Jun-14 ThailandStatXchangeOnlineYLocalN/A2013Oct-14 UgandaDevInfoOnlineYLocal72012Feb-14 Viet NamDevInfoOnlineYLocal6/72013Sep-14

15. Data exchange with line ministries National repository receiving data/ metadata from health/ education ministries as at October 2014, as follows: Target (2014): 18 Number Burundi2 Cambodia1 Ghana0 Lao PDR1 Liberia2 Morocco0 State of Palestine2 Rwanda2 Thailand2 Uganda2 Viet Nam2 Total16

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18. CountryData contains the number of MDGs as at October 2014, as follows: Target (2014): 180 Outcome 2 MDGs on CountryData Country Actual Number "Potential" Number Percent complete Burundi526087% Cambodia274363% Ghana103628% Lao PDR55 100% Liberia174043% Morocco124328% State of Palestine303294% Rwanda49 100% Thailand435283% Uganda246736% Viet Nam36 100% Total35551369%

19. Metadata availability CountryData contains the number of MDGs as at October 2014, as follows: Target (2014): 91% Output 2.2 "Core" MDG with metadata on CountryData Country Number of "Core" MDG reported to CountryData Number of "Core" MDG with metadata in CountryData Percentage of “core” MDG with metadata reported to CountryData Burundi181689 Cambodia12 100 Ghana300 Lao PDR191368 Liberia900 Morocco1100 State of Palestine10 100 Rwanda181689 Thailand14 100 Uganda10440 Viet Nam15 100 Total13910062* * Each countries contribution to the Total is weighted by 1/11 (i.e. 0.09)

20. 8 countries intend to share metadata through SDMX registry, 3 do fully (Burundi, Cambodia and Palestine), 2 partially (Thailand & Uganda) and 1 shared a draft handbook (Ghana) Of the 3 who will share via a handbook, only 1 has a draft complete (Lao PDR). Metadata availability

21. Discrepancy analysis “Core” discrepancy status as at October 2014: Target (2014): 91% Output 3.1 "Core" MDG discrepancy explained on CountryData Country Number of "Core" MDG available in national repository Number of "Core" MDG reported to CountryData Number of "Core" MDG with a discrepancy explained in CountryData Percentage of “core” MDG reported to CountryData and discrepancy explained Burundi18 1694 Cambodia12 100 Ghana1633100 Lao PDR19 1368 Liberia169889 Morocco1511982 State of Palestine1110 100 Rwanda18 1794 Thailand17141393 Uganda2010550 Viet Nam15 100 Total17713912188* * Each countries contribution to the Total is weighted by 1/11 (i.e. 0.09)

22. Thank you for your attention http://unstats.un.org Sources of further reference: http://data.un.org http://data.un.org/countrydata