Reporting on Support to Statistics

Board meeting

OECD Conference Centre

28 April 2011

Results & Lessons from PRESS 2010

Impact of the Financial Crisis?Comparison of Global Estimated Commitments over Past Three PRESS Rounds

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Results from PRESS 2010

Impact of the Financial Crisis?

RegionCommitments (US$ thousands)

2008 2009 2010

Africa 137,147 72,865 24,269

Asia & Pacific 76,801 107,027 134,587

Europe 11,131 14,591 13,267

Latin America & Caribbean 40,553 9,686 5,155

Unallocated* 70,486 21,938 5,370

Total 336,118 226,108 182,649

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Results from PRESS 2010

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Impact of the Financial Crisis?

Results from PRESS 2010

Estimated Commitments to Main Recipient Countries, 2008–10

Recipient Country Total Commitments (US$ thousands)

Nigeria 184,063India 112,299Mozambique 58,854Afghanistan 44,229Kenya 43,563Sudan 33,524Ukraine 32,611Haiti 28,254Ethiopia 26,875Tanzania 26,441Malawi 24,177Pakistan 22,378Albania 21,377Burkina Faso 19,806Mali 19,589

Commitments to these 15 countries combined to equal 45% of total estimated commitments worldwide and 48% of total country-specific commitments.

Aid Concentration

Results from PRESS 2010

Aid Fragmentation (too little aid from too many donors)

Four types of aid relationships:

•Concentrated and important: The donor gives more aid to the recipient country than its global share of aid would suggest and is among the donors that combine to account for at least 90% of the recipient country’s aid.•Concentrated: The donor gives more aid to the recipient country than its global share of aid would suggest but it is nevertheless among the donors that combine to account for less than 10% of the recipient country’s aid.•Important: The donor gives less aid to the recipient country than its global share of aid would suggest but is among the donors that combine to account for at least 90% of the recipient country’s aid.•Non-significant: The donor gives less aid to the recipient country than its global share of aid would suggest and is among the donors that combine to account for less than 10% of the recipient country’s aid.

Results from PRESS 2010

37.5% of aid relationships among top 15 recipients were “non-significant”.

These relationships represented 4.0% of aid to statistics to these countries.

This means that more than more than one-third (1/3) of aid relationships accounted for one-twenty-fifth (1/25) of financial aid to statistics.

Aid Fragmentation (too little aid from too many donors)

Results from PRESS 2010

NB: To appreciate these figures, it is important to recognise the percentage of countries that are either implementing or designing an NSDS: 91% of PRESS countries in Africa, 74% in Asia-Pacific, 69% in LAC, and 100% in Europe.

Aid Alignment with NSDS

Aligned? % of responses Share of global commitments

Yes 50% 31%

No 6% 4%

Don’t Know 44% 8%

Only 19% of projects reported in the PRESS responded to the alignment question. These figures use total global commitments as their denominator.

Results from PRESS 2010

Lessons from PRESS 2010 Exercise

Experience of the online questionnaire:

•Many reporters did not click on SUBMIT button.

•Reporters requested ability to print out a summary report before final submission.

Secretariat has developed this function.

•Very few details provided on alignment, co-ordination mechanisms, and future

projects.

•Sessions often timed out. Secretariat has increased delay period.

•Some reporters found that transferring projects from future to current required too

many clicks. Secretariat has simplified the procedure.

New Developments in the PRESS 2011

New Developments in the PRESS 2011

Results from 2010 Round of the Partner Report on Support to Statistics (PRESS) were presented at First Meeting of Partners for Statistics Development in Asia-Pacific (Bangkok: December 2010).

•“To avoid duplication, the group agreed to make full use of the PARIS21 Partner Report on Support to Statistics (PRESS) as a basis for information sharing. It agreed to further analyze the PRESS to assess its usefulness for this purpose, leaving the option for improving this tool or share information through other means open.”

•In Q1 2011, ESCAP & PARIS21 studied the PRESS process and results to develop some recommendations on fine-tuning the system.

New Developments in the PRESS 2011

The 2011 Round of PRESS will be launched next week. What’s new this year…?

•Online questionnaire will be open (nearly) year-round. Will allow reporters to load new projects as they are approved, anytime during the year.

•Secretariat will publish updated data in December & March. Users will be able to access updates in between rounds.

•System allows multiple reporters per institution but not per project. To avoid technical glitches.

•Secretariat has produced a detailed guide for PRESS reporters. Details on each field and strong pleas to complete future projects section.

•Additional free-text field will be added to questionnaire. For information on objectives, project documentation for future projects.

•Directory of PRESS reporters will be annexed to report. Partners can solicit further information directly from reporters.

Piloting the CRESS

From PRESS to CRESS

Reminder: Based on the PRESS experience conducted at the international level, PARIS21 has launched a pilot exercise named CRESS (Country Report on Support to Statistics) at the country level.

The CRESS is a country-led exercise to gather all data relating to the funding of the entire NSS whether deriving from national resources or donor support.

CRESS Objectives

The CRESS should help:• inform policymakers and financial and technical partners

(FTPs) of the volume of support to statistics;• provide information useful to strengthening and improving

co-ordination;• identify the needs in terms of financing statistics including

statistical capacity development; • monitor the financing of FTPs; and • serve as an important input into NSDS design/updating.

The ultimate objective is to improve efficiency of the NSS through a better co-ordination and better information sharing.

Piloting the CRESS

Current work:

•Pilots in Cameroon, Ethiopia, and Malawi.

•Senegal is conducting a full PER on statistics (with WB support). PARIS21 advising on CRESS component.

•Secretariat providing concept note, template questionnaire, guidance, database development.

•Results in late 2011.

Thank you!