status of implementation of the 2007 icmdgs recommendations

NATIONAL STATISTICAL COORDINATION BOARDRepublika ng Pilipinas

2011 International Conference on MDG StatisticsJOEncarnacion/19-21 October 2011

Status of Implementation of the 2007 ICMDGS Recommendations

Presented by

Ms. Jessamyn O. EncarnacionDirector, Social Statistics Office

Philippines National Statistical Coordination Board

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2011 International Conference on Millennium Development Goals Statistics

19-21 October 2011Dusit Thani Hotel, Makati City, Philippines



Outline of the Presentation

I. Background

II. Status of Implementation of the 2007 ICMDGS Recommendations

III. Summary

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I. Background

2007 International Conference on MDG Statistics

• 1-3 October 2007, coincided with the Philippines’ celebration of the 18th National Statistics Month

• Organized by the Philippine Statistical System, spearheaded by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) with funding support from the Department of Foreign Affairs

• Jointly conducted with the following:- UN Statistics Division (UNSD);- UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

(UNESCAP) Statistics Division;- Asian Development Bank; and the - Philippines’ UN Country Team (UNCT), including the UNDP.• In cooperation with the following:- UNICEF- UNDP/NEDA

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2007 International Conference on MDG Statistics

• Served as a forum for sharing of good practices and methodologies, current and new trends, and challenges in the generation, dissemination, and analysis of MDG data both at the country and regional/international levels;

• Follow up on the recommendations of the Workshop on Statistics for Monitoring the Achievement of the MDGs in the Asia and the Pacific conducted by the UNESCAP in Bangkok in 2006;

• Venue for a midterm evaluation since the Millennium Declaration in 2000

I. Background

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Participation in the 2007 ICMDGS

I. Background

Type of Participant Total Number Details

1. Country representatives from national statistical agencies and national planning agencies

42 Countries in the following:

•Asia and Pacific•Africa•South and West Asia•Europe•America

2. Representatives from international organizations

20 UNSD, UNICEF, ASEAN Secretariat, ILO, UNDP, UNESCAP

3. Local participants/ observers

15 Local organizing CommitteeMajor statistical agenciesData source agencies

TOTAL 77

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Sessions of the 2007 ICMDGS

1) Progress Report on the Attainment of MDGs

2) Generation and Compilation of MDG indicators

3) Techniques in addressing data gaps

4) Data Analysis and Utilization

5) Dissemination of MDG indicators

6) Strengthening Statistical Capacity to Improve MDG data

7) Organizational Issues

I. Background

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•Seven major recommendations of the 2007 ICMDGS

•Responsibility centers:

•UNSD

•International agencies

•UN Regional Commissions

•Regional offices of international agencies

•Countries/National Statistical Agencies (NSAs)

Four years after the 2007 ICMDGS….

•What has been done?

•Something to look forward to in the next four years… by 2015?


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•The NSCB Technical Staff (TS) coordinated with the UNSD, international organizations, Regional Commissions, and national statistical agencies.

•The NSCB-TS distributed questionnaires to agencies which participated in the 2007 ICMDGS as well as in the 2011 ICMDGS to monitor the implementation of the recommendations of the former.

Responsibility Center

No. of Target Respondents

No. of Responses

1. UNSD 1 12. International organizations

8 3(ESCAP, ADB, and UNICEF)

3. Countries 12 6(Bangladesh, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mexico,

Myanmar, and the Philippines)

•Hence, status of implementation is limited only to the responses of 10 agencies and countries.


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Recommendation


Action Taken

1. Initiate a study to investigate the reasons for discrepancies between national and international data, and for data gaps, for a group of two or three selected countries in their region

UN regional commissions

•With the coordination of UNSD (which will help establish contacts with international agencies); and the

•Assistance of UNDP.

UNSD

- Conduct of a series of workshops to identify data discrepancies between national and international databases

1) The first round of workshops has already taken place in all regions

2) Second round has just started, with a workshop carried out in coordination with ESCWA

3) One planned to be held in the ESCAP region early 2012

- DFID project on “MDG Labs”, through UNSD in coordination with NSAs to compile national data and publish it side by side with international data.


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Recommendation Responsibility Center

Action Taken

2. Expert group meetings should be organized to establish strategies for dealing with data discrepancies and data gaps at the national and international level.

UNSD, with the participation of the following:

•international agencies•UN Regional Commissions,•Regional Offices of international agencies•NSAs

UNSD

- Inter -Agency and Expert Group on MDG Indicators, which has taken up the issue of data discrepancies in every one of its meetings since the first ICMDGs.

•Working groups under the IAEG to address specific issues


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Recommendation


Action Taken

2. Expert group meetings should be organized to establish strategies for dealing with data discrepancies and data gaps at the national and international level.

UNSD, with the participation of the following:

•international agencies•UN Regional Commissions,•Regional Offices of international agencies•NSAs

UNICEF

•Facilitated sessions on under-five mortality and water and sanitation in UNSD-organized workshops

•HIV/AIDS M&E Reference Group (MERG) meetings •UNICEF has reached out to WHO with the proposal to collaborate with UNSD’s MDGLabs initiative

Cont. of no. 1


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Action Taken

3. Technical assistance should be provided to countries in the use of international definitions to help harmonize national and international data.

UNSD

International agencies

UN Regional Commissions

Regional offices of international agencies

UNSD

-Conducted a number of capacity building activities to understand the methodology and definitions used by international agencies (and countries)

-2nd round of workshops will particularly focus on definitions and methodology

-Updated version of the Handbook on MDG indicator monitoring.


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Action Taken


UNSD




UN ESCAP organized the following:- Meetings/Workshops/Trainings

-Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems-Gender Statistics-Census

- Expert Group Meeting

ESCAP/ADB/UNDP programme on “Supporting the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific Phase III”


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Recommendation


Action Taken


UNSD




Even before the 2007 ICMDGS, ADB has been implementing various regional technical assistance (RETA) projects that are directly or indirectly related to the harmonization of compilation practices for the MDGs.

•Administrative Data Sources•Statistical Capacity Building•Informal Sector •International Comparison Program (ICP) •Supply and Use Framework•Third Bhutan Living Standards Survey•ESCAP/ADB/UNDP programme


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Recommendation


Action Taken


UNSD




UNICEF

- Three workshops on maternal mortality, with WHO, UNFPA, and the World Bank

- Five regional workshops on child mortality since 2008 – co-hosted with the Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME)

-Six regional workshops and engaged in individual country consultations reaching a total of 64 countries since 2007 – co-hosted with WHO


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Recommendation


Action Taken


UNSD




UNICEF (cont.)

-Inter-agency meetings and workshops across key HIV/AIDS areas – with WHO, UNAIDS, UNFPA, and USG partners

- Estimation training workshops for countries every two years – with WHO and UNAIDS

- Annual estimate reviews in the TACRO region for the last three years – thru the Working Group on Immunization Estimation (with WHO).


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Recommendation


Action Taken

4. Metadata of nationally produced data should be provided and improved so that users at the international level can understand the methodology behind the data.

Country/ National statistical agencies

BangladeshOngoing. Metadata for nationally represented surveys are being done and will be hosted in BBS website soon.

Lao PDR30 out of 49 indicators are international MDG indicators which contain full metadata. The current ongoing DI Monitoring project is aiming to strengthen the metadata as well.

MalaysiaAvailable online. Metadata has been provided for 49 out of 68 indicators. It has been uploaded into “MalaysiaInfo” since 2010.


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Recommendation


Action Taken

4. Metadata of nationally produced data should be provided and improved so that users at the international level can understand the methodology behind the data.


MexicoAvailable online. Metadata for every one of the 80 indicators was produced in its MDG 2010 Country Report.

MyanmarSome MDG-related information is available from various reports (e.g., MICS, IHLCA Survey, etc.)

PhilippinesAvailable online. Metadata was produced last 2008.


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Recommendation


Action Taken

5. Guidelines on the information flow of MDG data should be developed


BangladeshCurrently being addressed.

Lao PDRPresently, MDG data is being updated/consolidated through the:•MDG working group (and its Consultant)•LaoInfo network among key line ministries and provincial focal points

MalaysiaUses “Indicators for Monitoring the MDGs” as a manual to provide the indicators of Malaysia MDG.


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Recommendation


Action Taken

5. Guidelines on the information flow of MDG data should be developed


MexicoEstablished. Also includes a public calendar. By mid October , it has transformed 32 indicators into SDMX.

PhilippinesEstablished since 2004. The NSCB, as coordinator and policy making body on statistical matters in the Philippines, serves as the repository of the MDG indicators in the Philippines.


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Recommendation


Action Taken

6. International agencies should consult with countries before publishing their data

UNSD




UNSD

- Updating of the MDG database once a year. The data published is received from the responsible international agencies, which are expected to directly consult the countries before sending the final figures for publication.

UNSD consults with countries on how the data was compiled, calculated and disseminated through the following:

•IAEG meetings;•MDG data discrepancy workshops; and the•MDG Labs.


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RecommendationResponsibili

ty CenterAction Taken

7. “Communities of practice”, including online networks among producers and users, should be created. These networks would discuss existing discrepancies of statistical data, and experiences and lessons learned in overcoming them. They would also share information on country and regional data collection initiatives to avoid duplication, etc.

UNSD




UNSD

- Official MDG website managed by UNSD contains contact information for every one of the MDG statistics experts

- Metadata is updated frequently – for enhanced coordination with experts

MDG Hotline (thru mdgs.un.org)

- UNSD follows up with the discussions and responds to all queries sent by workshop participants, facilitating information as timely as possible.


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RecommendationResponsibili

ty CenterAction Taken


UNSD




UNICEF

Through the MICS programme:

-Series of capacity strengthening workshops

-CMEInfo provides online database to share data, estimates and methods on child mortality - with the Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) -Data reconciliation processes and discussions for all four program areas of HIV/AIDS


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RecommendationResponsibility

CenterAction Taken


UNSD




Bangladesh- Periodic meetings and workshops between data users and producers - Expert committee to discuss discrepancies and weakness of the data produced by BBS

Malaysia- Through the Steering Committee on MDGs, established since 2007.


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RecommendationResponsibilit

y CenterAction Taken


UNSD




Mexico- Membership in the working group on MDG created by ECLAC’s Statistical Conference of the Americas- Mexico’s MDG website as the official source of data for all MDG users, including international organizations. - Technical committee on MDGs

Philippines-Sectoral interagency committees/ technical working groups/technical committees discussing issues of the different MDG indicators. - Inclusion of the MDGs in the Philippine Statistical Development Program 2011-2017


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III. Summary

1. In general, recommendations were implemented… but much more remains to be done (e.g., metadata, established guidelines on information flow of countries)

2. Strengthened coordination, continuous statistical capacity building activities… for MDG monitoring

3. New challenges as a result of the 2011 ICMDGS and the many initiatives on MDG monitoring from the UNSD, international organizations, regional commissions, and countries

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Maraming Salamat po!

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