CountrySTAT / FENIX

Overview, Objectives, Implementations and Approach

Why?

• Reduce hunger

• Alleviate poverty

• Promote rural development

Introductory Considerations

Global food and agriculture challenges require

fast, informed and targeted decisions

Introductory Considerations

We need to create the conditions for

evidence-based policies

Requirements

• High quality, comparable and timely data

• Mobilization of the national and international community

Data Issues

Data is a renewable resource, created every day by many organizations and individuals

There is a gap between the produced data and its availability

Data Issues

• Lack of data and metadata harmonization

• Poor data dissemination systems/mechanisms

• Restrictive or unclear data policy

• Poor communication and awareness

What’s needed

• Avail data as “public good”

• Ensure interoperability between IT systems

• Include expert-knowledge and users’ requirements in the IT system design

• Strengthen the international, regional and national institutional networks

The 3 Key DimensionsInstitutional Framework

(National/International Stakeholders)

Data availability

(IT platform/tools)

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Procedures and tools

Political area

Technical area Data Sharing Network

(SDMX, DDI)

The Data Sharing Network• Enables data exchange at all levels

• Creates a common technical language across data owners, statisticians, analysts, academics, journalists, etc.

• Includes methods and tools to interpret and understand the data, their reliability and their exact meaning (metadata)

• Enables data harmonization and integration within and across countries and regions

• IT systems will provide the technological infrastructure supporting the network

The FENIX Data Sharing NetworkGlobal

• FAOSTAT• AMIS Statistics• AMIS Policy• ADAM• FAO-WHO GIFT• Voices of the Hungry• Rural Livelihood

Monitoring• Global Foot & Mouth

Disease Monitoring• InfoSys for Forestry

Regional

• UEMOA (RegionSTAT)• UN-ECA• AfricaFertilizer• Regional Initiative on

Water Scarcity

National

• CountrySTAT• 17 countries in

Sub-Saharan Africa

• UAE• Bhutan

• Application of mobile technologies in

• Tanzania for CountrySTAT

• Nigeria for AMIS

Data Exchange

Key features• Based on Open Source software; no licensing constraints and full

redistribution rights

• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

• Data sharing through web services (APIs)

• Diversified data collection/upload methods

• Ability to handle different type of data

• Data discovery system based on metadata

• Advanced analytical capacities with the embedded “R” statistical package

• Extensible: ability to plug-in new functionalities and applications

Implementation Strategy

Demand-driven approach, supported by a flexible and modular technology

Adopt the Open Data concept and methods to enhance information sharing and benefit from the availability of data from different sources

Broaden the scope of CountrySTAT to support data collection and management (not just data dissemination)

Ensure relevance of CountrySTAT data and tools for the organization managing the system (owner)