The Busan Action Plan for Statistics: An Update on the Implementation Shaida Badiee, Director, Development Economics Data Group, World Bank Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities Frankfurt, September 17 – 19, 2012
PARIS21 Board Meeting – 28 March, 2012Paris, France Focus is now on implementation BAPS endorsed at the Busan HLF4 (December, 2011) and the UNSC (March, 2012) BAPS has five actions to support three objectives: i.Integrate Statistics into decision-making ii.Promote open access iii.Increase resource base Each action encompasses a range of possible activities at the national, regional, & global level. Implementation activities could be “vertical” or “horizontal” 2
PARIS21 Board Meeting – 28 March, 2012Paris, France BAPS Implementation principles Requires collective effort & political leadership Should be country led Uses existing partnerships & agencies Results will be monitored Implementation roadmap is flexible and responsive, based on broad consultation 3
PARIS21 Board Meeting – 28 March, 2012Paris, France Priorities from consultations Sample of developing countries: align activities through the NSDS, need stable funding, improve data accessibility, training, & communication with users UNSC: improve accessibility of statistics, gender statistics, agricultural statistics, and consider special needs of fragile and small states Regional Entities: advocate use of stats in decision- making, consolidate training activities, improve NSDSs Users: Focus on results, improve M&E systems, more accessible and better sub-national and micro data. 4
PARIS21 Board Meeting – 28 March, 2012Paris, France Implementation steps underway Task team on BAPS implementation Re-focusing of NSDSs Supporting countries with open data initiatives Gender Statistics (“EDGE”) Agriculture Statistics (Implementing the Global Strategy) Geospatial information management Innovative programs to gather high frequency data on household welfare ECASTAT – a new partnership for regional statistical capacity building in Europe and CIS countries Many IFIs re-focusing their WP and strategic approaches 5
PARIS21 Board Meeting – 28 March, 2012Paris, France Governance PARIS21 governance arrangements revised PARIS21 to act as BAPS secretariat Task Team to help in the short term PARIS21 EC and Board to review shifts in BAPS priorities and assess implementation progress Report progress as well as receive support from post-Busan Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (WP/EFF) and the UNSC 6
PARIS21 Board Meeting – 28 March, 2012Paris, France Financing requirements and instruments Key initiatives have sound financing (Agriculture and Gender) Other initiatives not expensive (NSDS updating, Open Data initiatives in countries, pilot high- frequency stats, PARIS21 strengthening) RDBs to rely on current financing instruments World Bank is re-purposing TFs 7
PARIS21 Board Meeting – 28 March, 2012Paris, France Monitoring Monitoring aided by BAPS log frame and indicators for specific implementation initiatives Monitoring of the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation ▫ It has been suggested to include an indicator on statistics (such as the SCI) ▫ Work still in progress, but not likely that statistics will be a stand alone progress indicator 8