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CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES IN THE ECO REGION
Federal Statistical Office of GermanyRingo Raupach
Head of Section “International Cooperation“
Ankara, 13 September 2013
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Cooperation with international organisations
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Destatis and the world
We are creating Europe and more precisely the EU Statistical System.
Participation in international statistical committees to ensure data comparability and reliability.
Ongoing World Bank-Project with theAgency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Statistics (ARKS)
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Why is Destatis actively involved in international capacity building?
National bases Economic and trade agreements Bilateral agreements of Destatis
European bases EU regulations
International bases Bilateral agreements UN resolutions Other international commitments
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Mandate of international statistical cooperation at DestatisTo support the German
European Foreign Economic and Development policy
through sustainable harmonisation of the statistical systems of our partner countries with
European standards (EU accession and neighbourhood countries)
International standards(developing and newly industrialised countries).
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Forms of cooperation
TwinniTwinningng
StStatistical cooperationatistical cooperation
Bilateral projects
Service contracts
Ad-hoc requests
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Funding sources
Destatis is providing services (expertise, project administration). Project implementation is based on external funding.
National funds GIZ Destatis budget
EU-Level European Commission
International Level The World Bank (WB) Asian Development Bank (ADB) Other potential donors Contributions from recipient countries
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Cooperation concept
Agriculture statistics
Price statistics
Environment statistics
Household surveys
Population census
National accounts
Demogra-
phic statistics
Industry statistics
Institutional capacityAd-hoc activities
Integrated approach for improvement of statistical areas
Focus on
primary statistics Accounts Support processes institutional capacity building
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Beneficiary Agency for Statistics
Leader Destatis
Consortium National statistical offices of Finland, partners Russia, Korea, Slovak Republic, Czech Republic
Duration 2012-2017
Topics Institutional capacity building Statistical and IT infrastructure Subject matter statistics
World Bank Twinning Kazakhstan
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Overall objective for National Accounts
Complete the implementation of the SNA 1993 and to create the methodological framework for the transition to SNA 2008
Sub areas: Current accounts Accumulation accounts and satellite accounts Supply and Use tables (SUT) and Input-Output Tables
(I/O) Balance sheets
World Bank Twinning Kazakhstan
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Beneficiary Turkish Statistical Institute
Leader GOPA Consultants (USST III)
Consortium Destatis partners Netherlands, Czech Republic and others
Duration since 2004, USST III: 2012-2014
Topics Institutional capacity building | National
accounts | Business statistics
| Business register | Environment statistics
Turkey (USST I - III)
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Beneficiary Pakistan Bureau of Statistics
Donor Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Germany
Lead GIZ (German Society for International Cooperation)
Duration since 2005
Topics National accounts | Price statistics
| Health accounts | IT infrastructure
GIZ Pakistan
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NA objectives and developments
Annual computation of the gross domestic product to be supplemented by quarterly calculations
Data for price statistics recorded electronically
Data gaps filled
Calculation of expenditure on health care
GIZ Pakistan
GIZ is also implementing a World Bank-funded project in Afghanistan (AFGHANSTAT).
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Beneficiary State Statistical Office
Leader Destatis
Consortium Bulgaria (junior partner)partners Lithuania, Czech Republic
Duration 2009-2012
Topics National accounts | Non-observed economy
| Business statistics
| Business register | Price statistics
EU Twinning Azerbaijan
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NA main results
Calculation of new elements of the National accounts or improvement of the existing ones
Improved Supply-Use Tables (SUT) and balancing Annual and Sector Accounts elaborated in more details Use of the double deflation method Calculation of gross investment at constant prices compatible
with European standards Higher proficiency in national accounts terminology and
nomenclature in the English language
EU Twinning Azerbaijan
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Beneficiary Statistical Agency
Leader Destatis
Consortium National statistical offices of Sweden, partners Denmark, Czech and Slovak Republic
Duration 2007 - 2011
Topics Institutional capacity building | Subject matter statistics
World Bank Twinning Tajikistan
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Publications
Newsletter “Statistics Across Borders” Flyer “Statistical Co-operation” Flyer “Statistical Capacity Building” Flyer “Twinning” Destatis Website
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