Participants to the Seminar on the Implementation of the 2008 System of National Accounts in Africa / Participants au S?minaire sur la Mise en ?uvre du Syt?me de Comtabilit? Nationale 2008 en Afrique African Statistical Newsletter Bulletin d?Information Statistique Num?ro Juin INSIDE THIS ISSUE / DANS CE NUM?RO: Message from the Director, ACS 1 Message du Directeur du CAS Implementation of the 2008 SNA 3 Mise en oeuvre du SCN 2008 Preparations of ASSD and StatCom-Africa III 13 Pr?parations du SADS et de Statcom-Africa III Statistical Capacity Building / Workshops 16 Renforcement des capacit?s statistiques / Ateliers Statistical Development - Selected Areas 28 D?veloppement de la statistique - Sujets choisis Featured NSO 46 Prol de l?INS News and Events 49 Informations et ?v?nements SP EC IAL F O CUS/ AT TENT IO N P A RT ICUL I? RE : Im ple m en ta tio n o f t he 2008 S N A s / M is e en e u v re du SCN 2008 , ? p3 . Fe at u re d NSO: Ni ger / Pr o l de l?INS: N ig er , ? p4 6 Volume 5 Issue 2 2011June Economic Commission for Africa African Centre for Statistics Commission ?conomique pour l?Afrique Centre africain pour la statistique Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 iii A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in A C  S C A    C D, ACS / C  D  CAS: P.O.Box 3005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tel.: +251-11-5443050 Fax: 251-11-5510389 dsanga@uneca.org http://ecastats.uneca.org E T / E  : Dimitri Sanga (PhD) Awa iongane Molla Hunegnaw Negussie Gorfe Steve Gui-Diby Issoufou Seidou Sanda Ben Kiregyera (PhD) C / C Message from the Director, ACS / Message du Directeur du CAS 1 Seminar on the Implementation of the 2008 System of National Accounts in Africa 3 Recommendations and conclusions of the Seminar on the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and the ninth AGNA meeting 6 Conclusions et recommandations du S?minaire sur la mise en ?uvre du SCN 2008 en Af- rique et de la neuvi?me r?union du Groupe Africain sur la Comptabilit? Nationale 9 7th ASSD Preparations O the Ground 12 Environmental economic accounts in Mozambique 16 ERETES and the International Comparison Program (ICP) 17 ERETES et le Programme de Comparaison International (PCI) 18 ECOWAS Workshop on Environment Statistics 20 Training-for-Trainers Seminar on the International Comparison Program National Ac- counts Component 22 International Workshop on Towards Harmonization of Time Use Surveys at the Global Level with Special Reference to Developing Countries 23 Workshop on ERETES Module 25 Atelier sur le Module ERETES, Addis-Abeba 4-8 avril 2011 26 e Repositioned African Centre for Statistics: A Critical Ingredient to Meeting the Statis- tical Challenges of the 21st Century in Africa 28 Supply and Demand for Livestock Data in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from a Stakehol- der Survey 32 Developing young statisticians in Rwanda 35 Zimbabwe Statistics Agency seeks Uganda guidance on autonomy? 36 Using CensusInfo Technology for Census Dissemination in Africa 38 e future of the CRVS system in Africa 41 Disaggregated data for better monitoring and evaluation of development interventions 43 African Statistical Yearbook 2011 45 Featured NSO / Prol de l?INS 46 Obituary / Annonce de d?c?s 49 Announcement 50 StatCom-Africa III poster 51 Heads of National Statistical Oces in Africa / Les Directeurs des Instituts Nationaux de Statistique (INS) en Afrique 53 National Statistical Associations in Africa / Les Associations Nationales de Statisticiens en Afrique 53 Statistical Training Centres in Africa / Les Centres Africains de Formation Statistique 53 Statistics Units in Regional Economic Communities (RECs) / Les Unit?s Statistiques des Communaut?s Economiques R?gionales (CER) 53 Upcoming Events / Ev?nements ? venir 54 Editorial Policy 55 Politique ?ditoriale 56 Alfred Geresom Musamali ubos@ubos.org Uganda Ayenew Ejigou aejigou@uneca.org UNECA Derek Baker d.baker@cgiar.org ILRI DevInfo Support Group support@devinfo.info UNICEF Dimitri Sanga dsanga@uneca.org UNECA Issoufou Seidou Sanda iseidou@uneca.org UNECA Joelle Bourgmayer-Haas joelle.bourgmayer@trasys.lu TRACYS Lucky Ngwenya luckyn@statssa.gov.za South Africa Molla Hunegnaw mhunegnaw@uneca.org UNECA Monica Magaua monica.magaua@ine.gov.mz Mozambique Muhammed Semakula statbcr@yahoo.fr SBCR Ltd Negussie Gorfe ngorfe@uneca.org UNECA Pali Lehohla palil@statssa.gov.za South Africa Steve Gui-Diby sgui-diby@uneca.org UNECA Ugo Pica-Ciamarra Ugo.PicaCiamarra@fao.org FAO Xiaoning Gong XGong@uneca.org UNECA C / C ? Statistics are a vital tool for economic and social development, including our ef- forts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. For development to succeed, we need data collection and statistical analysis of poverty levels, access to educa- tion and the incidence of disease. Statistics are a central consideration in justify- ing almost every aspect of budgets and programmes that enable hungry children to be fed or that provide shelter and emergency health care for victims of natural disasters. ?. Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary General ? La statistique est indispensable au d?veloppement ?conomique, y compris ? nos efforts de r?alisation des objectifs du Mill?naire pour le d?veloppement. Pour que les activit?s de d?veloppement donnent des r?sultats, il faut d?abord que des donn?es statistiques sur la pauvret?, l?acc?s ? l?enseignement et l?incidence des maladies soient r?unies et analys?es. Les statistiques sous-tendent presque tous les aspects des budgets et des programmes qui permettent de nourrir les enfants affam?s et d?offrir un abri et des soins d?urgence aux victimes de catastrophes naturelles. ?. Ban Ki-moon, S?cr?taire G?n?ral de l?Organisation des Nations Unies Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 1 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in From the Director, AcS - meSSAge Du Directeur Du cAS Esteemed readers, As you are aware, in its quest to better serve Africa, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) identied statistics and statistical capacity building together with knowledge management, as special programme priorities. is culminated in the inception of the African Centre for Statistics (ACS) in 2006. e creation of the Centre was meant to meet, among others, two critical challenges: to re-establish ECA?s credibility in the coordination of statistical development in Africa and to manage expectations of stakeholders namely countries, sub regional organizations, regional economic communities and development partners. Recent developments in fostering the statistical function at ECA are a testimony to the fact that the ACS is now well positioned to meet the challenges facing African stakeholders in statistical capacity building in support of their development eorts. One of the clear manifestations of this positioning, which is critical to the success of the Centre?s work programme, is the scaling up of its human resources. Following an intensive advocacy campaign aimed at fully stang the ACS to enable it meet the expectations of African stakeholders, the latter is now fully equipped as the posts and required eorts to ll them have been completed. is edition of the Newsletter contains a full article on the stang situation of the ACS. In its quest to equip ACS sta with the required skills to support countries in their statistical development eorts, the ECA organized a Training-for-Trainers Seminar on the International Comparison Program National Accounts Component in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 16 to 20 May 2011. Jointly organized by ACS and the International Comparison Program (ICP) Global Oce of the World Bank, it was attended by about 20 experts and resource persons from the ICP Global Oce, Eurostat, the African Development Bank as well as sta members of the ACS and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MOFED) of the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. e purpose of the seminar was to strengthen the technical capacity of participants, to prepare for ECA to actively participate and contribute to the ICP program especially in the ICP-Africa 2011 round and to technically assist MOFED to resolve problems Honorables lecteurs, Comme vous le savez, dans sa qu?te pour mieux servir l?Afri- que, la Commission ?conomique des Nations Unies pour l?Afrique (CEA) a identi? les statistiques et le renforcement des capacit?s statistiques ainsi que la gestion de connaissances comme des priori- t?s dansson programme d?action. Cela a abouti ? la cr?ation du Centre Africain pour la Statisti- que (CAS) en 2006. La cr?ation du Centre ?tait cens?e relever, entre autres, deux d?s cruciaux : r?tablir la cr?dibilit? de la CEA dans la coordination du d?veloppement de la statistique en Afrique et r?pondre aux attentes des parties prenantes, ? savoir les pays, or- ganisations sous r?gionales, les communaut?s ?conomiques r?gio- nales et les partenaires de d?veloppement, en mati?re de statisti- que Les d?veloppements r?cents dans la promotion de la fonction statistique ? la CEA sont un t?moignage sur le fait que le CAS est maintenant bien plac? pour relever les d?s auxquels font face les acteurs africains dans le domaine du renforcement des capacit?s statistiques en appui aux eorts de d?veloppement. L?une des ma- nifestations claires de ce positionnement, qui est essentielle ? la r?ussite du programme de travail du Centre, est l?augmentation de ses ressources humaines. Suite ? une campagne de plaidoyer inten- sive visant la dotation du CAS en personnel pour lui permettre de r?pondre aux attentes des acteurs africains, j?ai le plaisir de vous informer que ce dernier est maintenant pleinement dot? en postes et les eorts requis pour le recrutement des personnes devant les occuper ont ?t? r?alis?s. Cette ?dition du Bulletin contient un arti- cle complet sur la structure du CAS. Dans sa qu?te renforcer les capacit?s du personnel du CAS, avec les comp?tences n?cessaires pour soutenir les pays dans leurs eorts de d?veloppement de la statistique, la CEA a organis? un S?minai- re de formation pour formateurs sur la composante comptabilit? nationale du Programme de Comparaison Internationale ? Addis- Abeba, en Ethiopie, du 16 au 20 mai 2011. Organis? conjointement par le CAS et le Bureau mondial du Programme de Comparaison Internationale (PCI) de la Banque Mondiale, il a r?uni une ving- taine d?experts et de personnes-ressources du Bureau mondial du PCI, d?Eurostat, de la Banque Africaine de D?veloppement ainsi que des membres du personnel du CAS et le Minist?re des nances et du d?veloppement ?conomique (MOFED) du gouvernement de la R?publique D?mocratique F?d?rale d??thiopie. Le s?minaire vi- sait ? renforcer les capacit?s techniques des participants pour se Dimitri Sanga, Director African Centre for Statistics 2 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 and diculties encountered in the area of ICP National Accounts. ere is substantive coverage of this Seminar in the Newsletter. As a testimony of the scaling up of statistical capacity building activities on the continent, this issue of the Newsletter captures a number of interesting articles events that took place during the current quarter. ese include: e Seminar on the Implementation of the 2008 ? System of National Accounts in Africa e preparations of the 7th African Symposium ? on Statistical Development and the third meeting of the Statistical Commission for Africa (StatCom III) e Workshop on Environment Statistics and ? Accounts e ECOWAS Workshop on Environment ? Statistics e Training-for-Trainers Seminar on the ? International Comparison Program National Accounts Component e International Workshop on Towards ? Harmonization of Time Use Surveys at the Global Level with Special Reference to Developing Countries e Workshop on ERETES Module ? Under news and events, there is a tribute to our late colleague Maria Fereira by the Chairperson of the Statistical Commission for Africa and the prole of the newly appointed Director General of Mauritania. In addition, there are announcements on the forthcoming seventh Africa Symposium on Statistical Development and third session of the Statistical Commission for Africa to be held on the last week of January 2012 in Cape Town, South Africa. e featured NSO for this edition is the National Statistical Institute of Niger. You will nd a prole containing useful information on this country?s NSO in this edition. As usual, we continue to encourage the statistical community in Africa and outside the continent to send us articles and any information of interest to the statistical development of the continent for publication in the Newsletter. Readers and contributors might also consider sending us reactions to and feedback on the materials we publish. Finally, we are providing in this and future issues the editorial policy of the Newsletter, which provides guidance on how to prepare and submit an article for publication. q pr?parer, au niveau de la CEA, ? participer activement et ? contri- buer au programme PCI surtout au cours de la s?rie 2011 du PCI- Afrique et pour aider techniquement le MOFED ? r?soudre les probl?mes et les dicult?s rencontr?es dans le domaine de la com- posante comptabilit? nationale du PCI. Il y a un article couvrant ce s?minaire dans le Bulletin. Comme un t?moignage de l?augmentation des activit?s de renfor- cement des capacit?s statistiques sur le continent, cette parution du bulletin la capture ? travers un certain nombre d?articles d??v?ne- ments int?ressants qui ont eu lieu pendant le trimestre en cours. Citons notamment : Le s?minaire sur la mise en ?uvre du Syst?me de ? Comptabilit? Nationale 2008 en Afrique Les pr?parations du septi?me Symposium sur le ? D?veloppement de la Statistique en Afrique et de la troisi?me session de la Commission Statistique pour l?Afrique L?atelier sur les statistiques et les comptes ? environnementaux L?atelier de la CEDEAO sur les statistiques de ? l?environnement L?atelier de formation des formateurs sur la composante ? comptabilit? nationale du Programme de Comparaison Internationale L?atelier sur l?harmonisation au niveau global des statistiques ? de l?emploi du temps avec attention sp?ciale aux pays en d?veloppement L?atelier sur le module ERETES ? Dans le cadre des nouvelles et ?v?nements, nous publions un hom- mage ? notre d?funte coll?gue Maria Fereira par le Pr?sident de la Commission Statistique pour l?Afrique et le prol du nouveau Directeur G?n?ral de l?Institut National de Statistique de Maurita- nie. En outre, il y a des annonces sur le septi?me Symposium sur le D?veloppement de la Statistique en Afrique et la troisi?me session de la Commission Statistique pour l?Afrique, qui auront lieu la der- ni?re semaine de janvier 2012 ? Cape Town, en Afrique du Sud. L?Institut National de la Statistique vedette pour cette ?dition est le Niger. Vous trouverez un prol contenant des informations utiles sur celui-ci dans cette ?dition Comme d?habitude, nous continuons d?encourager la communaut? statistique en Afrique et ? l?ext?rieur du continent ? nous envoyer des articles ainsi que des renseignements d?int?r?t pour le d?velop- pement de la statistique du continent pour publication dans le Bul- letin. Les lecteurs et les contributeurs peuvent ?galement envisager de nous envoyer des r?actions et des commentaires sur les articles que nous publions. Enn, nous publions dans cette parution la politique ?ditoriale du Bulletin, qui fournit des indications sur la fa?on de pr?parer et de soumettre un article pour publication future. q From the Director, AcS - meSSAge Du Directeur Du cAS Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 3 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in Seminar on the Implementation of the 2008 System of National Accounts in Africa Xiaoning Gong and Steve Loris Gui-Diby, ACS ii. implementAtion oF the 2008 SnA - miSe en oeuvre Du Scn 2008 e rst regional meeting on the implementation of the 2008 System of National Accounts (SNA), the ?Seminar on the implementation of the 2008 SNA in Africa,? jointly or- ganized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank (AfDB), and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 11 to 15 April 2011. In total, the meeting has gathered together more than 70 senior managers and experts of National Accounts from 44 Member States, international, and regional organizations. ey represented 41 National Statistics Oces (NSOs), 12 Central Banks, six Ministries of Finance and Economic De- velopment, four Regional Economic Communities (RECs), and four other international and regional development part- ners. e purpose of the seminar is to initiate the formulation of an implementation programme for the 2008 System of Na- tional Accounts (SNA) through reviewing the global and regional strategies, and discussing and providing comments and suggestions for improving and nalizing the regional project document for the implementation of the 2008 SNA. e African Group on National Accounts (AGNA) held its 9th meeting back to back with the seminar. Major achievements of the meeting include dening the Af- rican Statistics Day 2011 as the National Accounts day, plan- ning and institutionalizing the work of AGNA, committing on closer international cooperation, and contributing to the improvement and nalization of the regional project docu- ment as the implementation and action plan. e participants welcomed the decision to have the 2008 SNA as the theme for celebrating the African Statistics Day (ASD) 2011 and stressed that the ASD 2011 should target non national accountants as audience and therefore focus on sub-themes like the use of national accounts for informed decision-making and improving communication between NSOs and the civil society. e AGNA, a working group of Statistical Commission for Africa (StatCom-Africa), has been given a permanent sta- tus. e membership of AGNA has been extended to include associate observers to consultants, external experts, and non-pan African organizations. Its mandate includes also Participants to the Seminar on the Implementation of the 2008 System of National Accounts in Africa / Participants au S?minaire sur la Mise en ?uvre du Syt?me de Comtabilit? Nationale 2008 en Afrique 4 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 Speech of M. Dimitri Sanga, Director of the African Centre for Statistics Representative of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Representative of the African Union Commission (AUC), Colleagues from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), Representative of international organizations, National accountants from African member states, African Group on National Accounts (AGNA) members, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the Headquarters of the United Nations Eco- nomic Commission for Africa (ECA) and to Addis Ababa and thank you for gracing with your presence this very im- portant meeting on the implementation of the 2008 System of National Accounts (SNA). Dear colleagues, Ladies and gentlemen, As you are aware, National Accounts provide users with key and critically macroeconomic statistics for the measure- ment, monitoring, and forecasting of economic activities. ey also support the design of economic policies and pro- grammes, and decision making. e adoption and implementation of the 2008 SNA by Af- rican countries is timely and relevant. In fact, following in- ternational standards help the harmonization of statistics among countries, which is a key ingredient in support of the integration of African economies, a priority political agenda of the African Union. In our quest to implement the 2008 SNA in Africa, we do believe that experiences of countries from other regions of the world can play a very important role. We are therefore very pleased that colleagues from the UNSD are here and will present and share with us those experiences. e sharing of experiences and best practices from other regions of the world notwithstanding, we strongly believe that there is a need to take into account African realities and specicities to come up with a proper strategy to meet the special needs of African countries. In preparation for the implementation of the 2008 SNA in Africa, we have to face the reality and take it into account into our Strategy. e reality is that, many of our Nation- al Statistical Oces (NSOs) are not well equipped both in terms of human and other resources to properly compile national accounts. e average number of National Accoun- tants at the national level is only about eight people in our NSOs. Among these eight professionals, there average turn- over rate is high: e.g. during the last 5 years, of these eight people, four joined and three le the NSO. On the other hand, the technical capacity and level of devel- opment in countries are very diverse. While the majority of countries have already adopted the 1993 SNA, there are still about een percent of all countries using the 1968 SNA. As recognized by the African political agenda on regional integration, there are economies of scale to be gained from working together at the continental and sub-regional levels and making a good use of the limited pool of national ac- countants that we have. It is in this spirit that the AGNA was created and a Regional Strategy for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA prepared. e latter was presented to and adopted by the last StatCom Africa and later on by the Joint AUC-ECA Conference of Af- rican Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Devel- opment as well as African Heads of State and Government. Dear colleagues; Ladies and gentlemen; Aer the successful preparation of the said strategy, it is time to move to implementation and in this regard, a Regional Project Document (ProDoc) has been prepared by the AfDB and the ECA to serve as an implementation and action plan for the Regional Strategy. e dra Regional ProDoc will be ii. implementAtion oF the 2008 SnA - miSe en oeuvre Du Scn 2008 Opening remarks research activities and task forces will be created to address specic issues. e important roles of Regional Economic Communities and Central Banks in the implementation of the 2008 SNA have been addressed. Countries committed to implement the 2008 SNA in line with international recommendations and standards. Imple- mentation tools developed at global level will be applied to update National Strategies for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) and/or to establish national vision document to im- plement the 2008 SNA. Eorts made by international and regional organizations in the development of handbooks, soware, and the capacity building were much welcome. ere was a consensus on the overall objectives and ap- proaches of the Regional Project Document (ProDoc) for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA. e ProDoc was thor- oughly reviewed and detailed and concrete recommenda- tions for improvement and nalization were provided. e participants gave their strong support and urged to nalize the ProDoc; calling development partners to work together with the AGNA to address the issue of the implementation within the regional framework. Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 5 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in reviewed and discussed during this Seminar. It is our expectation that this Seminar will provide the op- portunity to learn from the global strategy and related imple- mentation tools, and to review the regional strategy as well as to discuss the Regional ProDoc. We will, this way, ensure that the regional documents are in line with the global strat- egy and at the same time take into consideration the realities and specicities of the African continent. e Regional ProDoc is still a dra. To make it an eective and ecient action plan, it still need to be improved on and detailed. During this meeting, inputs and contributions from participants will help: ? To review and scrutinize the objectives, outputs, and ac- tivities to see if they are properly identify and listed. ? To specify and clarify roles to be played by different stake- holders: Member States, Pan-African Institutions, Regional Economic Communities (RECs), regional and sub-regional training institutions, as well as other development partners. ? To help to define and rationalize the timetable of the Re- gional ProDoc and related milestones. Ladies and gentlemen; e ECA is fully committed to support African countries in the area of National Accounts and economic statistics. Since its inception, the ECA has carried out many activities and played a substantial role in increasing African countries? statistical capacity and infrastructure including tin the area of national accounts. e ECA has recently substantially reinforced its Economic Statistics and National Accounts capabilities. e newly es- tablished Economic Statistics and National Accounts Sec- tion will be the key driver of national accounts activities. It is reinforced by several other resources at the ACS. For example, a Senior Regional Advisor specialized in NSDS will play an important role in ensuring that economic sta- tistics and national accounts are given due consideration in NSDS preparations and implementation. Our Senior Region- al Adviser working on Informal Sector Satellite Accounts & Employment Matrix to improve calculation and compila- tion of basic data for National Accounts will also support the work on national accounts. In addition, the Data Man- agement Team with both professional and supporting sta members specialized in population and housing censuses, civil registration, and socio-economic statistics stands ready to support data collection, compilation, and dissemination of National Accounts and supporting economic statistics. As the UN regional arm in Africa, ECA will scale up its ac- tivities and play an important role in the coordination and monitoring of the implementation of the 2008 SNA. It will also benet from the unwavering support from its well es- tablished networks with other UN agencies and partnership with member countries. ese will include: assessments of country situations and statistical development; evaluation of the impacts of moving to the SNA 2008; monitoring and reporting actions at the regional and sub-regional levels; co- ordination of the development of statistical standards; and provision of capacity building and technical assistance to Member States; and support to the implementation of the work plan of the ICP-Africa 2011 National Accounts com- ponent. Dear colleagues, Ladies and gentlemen, Let me end my statement by saluting the partnership among pan African institutions on the organization of this meeting and call upon partners to support the continent in the imple- mentation of the 2008 SNA. Together we can ensure that the implementation of the 2008 SNA is far better than what was observed for the previous versions of the system. God bless Africa! ank you for your attention! Discours de M. Luc Mbong Mbong,Statisticien en Chef, BAD, Coordonnateur r?gional g?n?ral de l?AGNA Monsieur le Directeur du Centre Africain pour la Statistique (CAS) Monsieur le Chef de l?Unit? Statistique de la Commission de l?Union Africaine Monsieur le Repr?sentant du Bureau Statistique des Nations unies Monsieur le Repr?sentant de l?EUROSTAT Monsieur le Repr?sentant du FMI/ AFRITAC Messieurs les Repr?sentants des Communaut?s ?conomiques r?gionales Repr?sentants des Banques centrales Monsieur le Repr?sentant d?AFRISTAT Mesdames et Messieurs, Honorables delegu?s, Permettez-moi tout d?abord, au nom de M. Charles Lufum- pa, Directeur du D?partement des Statistiques de la BAD, de remercier la CEA qui a bien voulu accueillir cette double r?union qui comprend les travaux de la 9?me r?union du Groupe africain de comptabilit? nationale et ceux du S?mi- naire sur la mise en ?uvre du SCN 2008. Je voudrais ?galement remercier ceux de nos partenaires parmi nous notamment l?UNSD et l?EUROSTAT. ii. implementAtion oF the 2008 SnA - miSe en oeuvre Du Scn 2008 6 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 ii. implementAtion oF the 2008 SnA - miSe en oeuvre Du Scn 2008 Voici venu le moment de la mise en ?uvre eective de la strat?gie africaine de mise en ?uvre du SCN 2008 que nous avons d?velopp?e nous-m?mes dans le cadre de la strat?gie globale de mise en ?uvre du SCN 2008, que les Chefs d?Etat et de Gouvernement ont adopt?e et qu?il nous revient de mettre en ?uvre. Apr?s la r?union de Yaound? en d?cembre 2010, nous avons convenu de nous retrouver pour r?orienter les travaux de l?AGNA, suite ? l?adoption du premier pilier de la Strat?gie d?harmonisation des statistiques en Afrique (SHaSA). En m?me temps, l?UNSD s?est propos?e d?apporter son appui en animant un s?minaire sur le SCN 2008. C?est donc avec plus de bonheur que nous avons d?cid? de jumeler les 2 r?unions. Nous pensons que le moment est venu pour traduire dans les faits, nos eorts communs. Ainsi, en plus de la r?union de l?AGNA, nous devons examiner la premi?re mouture du Programme commun et unique de comptabilit? nationale en Afrique. La semaine sera donc tr?s charg?e et je ne puis que vous sou- haitez bon courage. Je reste convaincu que ces eorts communs et bien partag?s par nos partenaires nous permettront d?atteindre nos objec- tifs C?est d?un partenariat strat?gique qu?il s?agit. Il nous revient donc de mieux appr?cier le temps si favorable pour r?aliser nos objectifs. Bonne chance. Je vous remercie. Discours de M. Yeo Dossina, Division Statistique, Com- mission de l?Union Africaine Monsieur le Directeur du Centre africain pour la statistique Monsieur le Directeur du Centre africain pour la statistique de la CEA, Monsieur le repr?sentant de la Banque africaine de d?vel- oppement, Mesdames et Messieurs les d?l?gu?s des pays et des Com- munaut?s ?conomiques r?gionales, Messieurs les repr?sentants des institutions internationales et du syst?me des nations unies et organisations internation- ales ; Chers honorables d?l?gu?s Mesdames et messieurs C?est un grand honneur et un privil?ge pour moi de m?adresser ? vous ? l?occasion de cette importante r?union. Je voudrais avant tout propos souhaiter la bienvenue ? tous les d?l?gu?s et les remercier pour n?avoir pas m?nag? leurs eorts pour prendre part ? cette importante rencontre pour discuter de la strat?gie de mise en ?uvre du syst?me de comptabilit? nationale 2008, piler important de la Strat?gie d?harmonisation des statistiques en Afrique (SHaSA). Au nom des autorit?s politiques de la Commission de l?UA, le Pr?sident Jean Ping et le Commissaire aux aaires ?conomiques, je voudrais exprimer ma gratitude ? nos col- l?gues de la CEA et de la BAD ainsi qu?aux partenaires, pour leurs eorts et soutiens constant qu?ils apportent ? la Com- mission de l?UA en vue de trouver des solutions d?nitives aux probl?mes li?s ? la disponibilit? des statistiques de qualit? produites ? temps opportun en Afrique. Je salue l?esprit coo- p?ratif qui anime nos trois institutions depuis ces derni?res ann?es et qui a permis de r?aliser des progr?s signicatifs notamment avec l?adoption du cadre strat?gique global pour l?harmonisation des statistiques dans tous les domaines de l?int?gration africaine (politique, ?conomique et sociale) et du cadre de coordination pour r?glementer les activit?s statistiques sur le continent. Chers coll?gues, Mesdames et messieurs, Aujourd?hui, nous sommes l? pour discuter de la strat?gie af- ricaine sur la SCN2008 qui est le fruit d?un travail minutieux r?alis? par vos m?mes avec l?appui des trois organisations panafricaines. Je voudrais vous rappeler que votre document a ?t? adopt? avec Strat?gie d?harmonisation des statistiques en Afrique (SHaSA) par les chefs d??tat et de gouvernement ? Kampala en juillet 2010 apr?s avoir ?t? examin?s par les min- istres des nances, du plan et du d?veloppement ?conomique au Malawi en mars 2010. Il vous souviendra ?galement que lors de la derni?re r?union de l?AGNA qui a pr?c?d?e la cinqui?me r?union des Direct- eurs G?n?raux des INS qui s?est tenue ? Yaound?, Cameroun, plusieurs recommandations ont ?t? formul?es et ent?rin?es par les DG notamment l??laboration d?un projet africain unique pour la mise en ?uvre du SCN 2008 sur la p?riode 2011-2015 et la proposition d??riger l?AGNA en groupe de travail permanent sur la comptabilit? nationale ? l?instar du Groupe de travail inter-secr?tariat de comptabilit? nationale au niveau mondial. L?ensemble de ces recommandations ont ?t? soumises ? la conf?rence des ministres des nances, du plan et du d?veloppement ?conomique organis?e ici m?me quelques jours auparavant qui les a adopt?s. Nous devons donc donner le meilleur de nous-m?mes an de ne pas d?cevoir les autorit?s politiques du continent qui Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 7 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in ii. implementAtion oF the 2008 SnA - miSe en oeuvre Du Scn 2008 Recommendations and conclusions of the Seminar on the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and the ninth AGNA meeting Xiaoning Gong and Steve Loris Gui-Diby, ACS Aer going through the following agenda: a) Review of the report of the 8th AGNA meeting held dur- ing the meeting of General Directors of NSOs in Yaound? - December 2010; b) Preparation for the African Statistics Day 2011: designat- ing SNA 2008 as its theme; c) Update Terms of References (ToRs) of the AGNA and its relations with the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Na- tional Accounts (ISWGNA); d) Finalization of the list of AGNA members; e) Review of the process of preparing for the rst dra of the Regional Project Document (ProDoc); and f) Preparation of the Work Program of AGNA. g) e global Strategy on the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and related issues like main changes in 2008 SNA, tools, data sources and organization; h) e regional strategy on the implementation of the 2008 SNA; i) Technical cooperation; and j) e project document (ProDoc) on the implementation of the 2008 SNA and the assessment of country in national account. Participants of the meetings: 1. Welcomed the appointment of the following persons as AGNA regional coordinators for the three pan-African orga- nizations: Mr. Luc Mbong Mbong from AfDB, Mr. Xiaoning Gong from UNECA, and Mr. Yeo Dossina from AUC fol- lowing the decision of the 5th meeting of the Committee of Director Generals of NSOs to establish the AGNA as a per- manent body for facilitating work on national accounts in Africa. Mr. Luc Mbong Mbong is the AGNA Lead regional coordinator. 2. Welcomed the decision to have the 2008 SNA as the theme for celebrating the African Statistics Day (ASD) 2011 and stressed that the ASD 2011 should target non-national accountants as audience and therefore focus on sub-themes like the use of national accounts for informed decision-mak- ing and improving communication between NSOs and the civil society. 3. Agreed on the following issues regarding the Terms of References of AGNA: ? AGNA will report to StatCom-Africa biennially and to its Bureau in the intermediate year; ? there is a need to clarify AGNA?s governance mechanism in accordance with existing schemes; ? a mechanism is to be set up to accommodate associate ex- ternal experts or independent consultants and non-African institutions in AGNA?s work and to consider them as observ- ers in AGNA; ? the AGNA mandate should include research on national accounts issues; ? terms of references for Regional Economic Communities (RECs), which play an important role in the implementation of the 2008 SNA should be developed to enable them to bet- ter serve the needs of their Member States; and ? AGNA should create specific task forces to work on spe- cic themes. 4. Agreed that countries and RECs should provide the name of the institution(s) responsible for economic statistics and national accounts compilation and also nominate a principal and an alternate member to serve on AGNA to the regional coordinators. 5. Recognized the important role of the region?s Central Banks in the development of national accounts and econom- ic statistics, and may therefore, in their capacity as members of AGNA, be requested to support specic areas in the im- nous regardent. Je voudrais donc, inviter chacun d?entre nous ? ?tre cr?atif, dans les discussions qui auront lieu, an de ren- dre le projet sur la SCN 2008 plus op?rationnel (impliquant tous les acteurs et d?nissant les actions concr?tes ? r?aliser avec un calendrier pr?cis), pour en assurer la mise en ?uvre ecace et eective dans tous les pays africains. Cela nous per- mettra de suivre et ?valuer la mise en ?uvre de notre projet an d?avoir des comptes nationaux cr?dibles et comparables en vue d?assurer l?harmonisation des politiques ?conomiques ? l??chelle continentale dans le cadre du processus d?int?gration dans lequel nos leaders se sont engag?s depuis belle lurette. Nous allons ?galement discuter, entre autres, de la mobilisation de tous les acteurs du syst?me statistique africain an qu?ils s?approprient le SCN 2008 et des moyens nanciers n?cessaires en vue de l?op?rationnalisation de la Strat?gie africaine de mise en ?uvre du SCN 2008. Sur cette note, je voudrais vous souhaiter plein succ?s dans vos travaux en formulant les v?ux qu?? la n de fructueux ?changes nous aboutissons ? des recommandations pertinentes et r?alis- ables rapidement. Je vous remercie pour votre attention aimable. q 8 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 ii. implementAtion oF the 2008 SnA - miSe en oeuvre Du Scn 2008 plementation of the 2008 SNA. 6. Rearmed that the African Strategy for the Implementa- tion the 2008 SNA, which is fully aligned with the Implemen- tation Programme for the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics, adopted by the United Nations Statistical Commission, is the overarching framework for formulating the national imple- mentation programmes for the 2008 SNA in Africa. 7. Appreciated the progress made from the African Strategy to the Regional ProDoc; agreed on the following, and pledged to give their support to the nalization of the Regional ProDoc according to agreed timelines: e Regional ProDoc will be nalized by taking into ac- ? counts the results of the Seminar and the completed SNA Assessment Questionnaire conducted prior to the Semi- nar; the period of 5 years for the implementation of the 2008 ? SNA is seen as a rst step in its implementation; the implementing ISIC Rev. 4.0 and CPC Rev. 2.0 is part of ? the implementation programme of the 2008 SNA, as these classications are an integral part of the SNA; 8. Agreed to establish a road map for the implementation of the 2008 SNA and supporting statistics at the national level taking into account the national and regional policy needs and the requirements of the African Strategy for the implementa- tion of the 2008 SNA and to incorporate this road map in the review of the NSDS in countries. 9. Agreed on the following activities in the work programme of AGNA: To create a website to archive all the documents of the ? AGNA with access restricted to members and observers of the AGNA; to create a discussion website for African partners; ? launching a study on the impact of the implementation ? of 2008 SNA in African countries, based on a sample of countries; the nalized ToR of the AGNA will be disseminated to ? countries; to translate the self-assessment tool and its guide proposed ? by UNSD in French; and to prepare the advocacy materials for the mobilization of ? nancial resources for the Regional Project; and to prepare ToRs for the Regional Coordinators and the RECs. 10. Stressed the need for clarication on the following specic issues related to the main changes in the 2008 SNA: the treat- ment of FISIM, regional Central Banks and weapons systems. 11. Recognized the importance of short term economic indi- cators for the early detection of changes in economic trends and agreed to review the appropriateness and feasibility of collecting short term economic indicators, as reected in the Ottawa data template, with the aim of developing a central na- tional data hub, as part of the implementation programme for the 2008 SNA and supporting statistics. 12. Welcomed the proposed implementation tools comprising the Statistical System Information sheet, the Self-Assessment Diagnostic Tool, and the Framework for setting goals and ac- tions to reach the goals, which are helpful for preparing a vi- sion document. 13. Agreed that countries use the Self-Assessment Diagnostic Tool to assess the current status of the statistical capacity in the country to comply with the requirements of the African Strategy for the implementation of the 2008 SNA to carry out various assessments of the national statistical systems. 14. Agreed that a vision document, based on the self-assess- ment of the statistical capacity constraints, needs to be pre- pared to establish a set of actions to accomplish statistical and institutional goals and is instrumental in the sustainable im- provement of the statistical agenda ensuring adherence to best practices in ocial statistics. 15. Welcomed the update of the SNA implementation mile- stones, data sets and quality assessment framework for moni- toring the scope, detail and quality of national accounts com- pilation at the country level. 16. Welcomed the dedicated website established by the UNSD to track and support the implementation programme for the 2008 SNA and supporting statistics, as well as the Knowledge Base for economic statistics and macroeconomic standards, and participants agreed to provide material on country prac- tices to be housed in this Knowledge Base. 17. Welcomed the handbook Essential SNA: building the ba- sics, prepared by Eurostat and agreed that this handbook and others prepared by the ISWGNA members are important tools for supporting the implementation of the 2008 SNA. 18. Welcomed the updating of ERETES to be 2008 SNA com- pliant and recognized that this IT-tool plays an important role in supporting the compilation of the national accounts statis- tics in the region. 19. Welcomed the training opportunities provided by GIZ and agreed that the training initiatives foreseen by the African Strategy for the implementation of the 2008 SNA take into ac- count these and other similar facilities available in the region to make full use of these training opportunities. 20. Requested UNSD to actively support African countries through cooperation with AGNA and the regional implemen- tation programme for the 2008 SNA and supporting statistics in Africa; and to provide support to alleviate the diculties faced by countries in the implementation of some recommen- dations of the 2008 SNA. Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 9 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in ii. implementAtion oF the 2008 SnA - miSe en oeuvre Du Scn 2008 Conclusions et recommandations du S?minaire sur la mise en ?uvre du SCN 2008 en Afrique et de la neuvi?me r?union du Groupe Africain sur la Comptabilit? Nationale Xiaoning Gong and Steve Loris Gui-Diby, CAS 21. Called for: ? All development partners to be strongly committed in the implementation of the 2008 SNA in Africa through the com- mon Regional Project; and ? Pan-African organizations to move forward in the imple- mentation of the Regional Project, to launch advocacy cam- paign and to mobilize resources for the implementation of the Regional Project. 22. Agreed on the following indicators of progress for the formulation of the national and regional implementation pro- gramme for the 2008 SNA and supporting statistics: ? Finalization of the draft Regional ProDoc for the Implemen- tation of the 2008 SNA in Africa o Due date: end of May 2011 o Responsible: AfDB, AUC, ECA ? AGNA to discuss the draft Regional ProDoc o Due date: Next AGNA meeting o Responsible: AfDB, AUC, ECA and countries ? Translation of the self-assessment (DF-NA & ES) question- naire and related instructions in French o Due date: April 2011 o Responsible: AGNA (AfDB) ? Nomination of AGNA members o Due date: end of May 2011 o Responsible: AfDB, ECA, AUC, and Countries (NSOs, central banks) Apr?s avoir parcouru l?ordre du jour suivant : a) Examen du rapport de la 8?me r?union AGNA eu lieu au cours de la r?union des directeurs g?n?raux des INS ? Yaoun- d? - d?cembre 2010 ; b) Pr?paration pour de la journ?e africaine de la statistique 2011 : d?signant le SCN 2008 comme th?me ; c) Mise ? jour des termes de r?f?rences (ToRs) de l?AGNA et de ses relations avec le Groupe de Travail Inter secr?tariats sur la Comptabilit? Nationale (GTICN) ; d) Finalisation de la liste des membres de l?AGNA ; e) Examen du processus de pr?paration de la premi?re ?bauche du Document de projet r?gional (ProDoc) ; f) la pr?paration du programme de travail de l?AGNA. g) La strat?gie mondiale mise en ?uvre du SCN 2008 et les questions connexes comme les principaux changements en 2008 SNA les outils, les sources de donn?es et l?organisation ; h) La strat?gie r?gionale de la mise en ?uvre du SCN 2008 ; i) Coop?ration technique ; j) et le document de projet (ProDoc) sur la mise en ?uvre du SCN 2008 et l??valuation de la situation de la comptabilit? nationale en Afrique. Les participants au s?minaire : 1. Ont accueilli favorablement la nomination de MM. Luc Mbong Mbong (BAD), Xiaoning Gong (CEA) et Yeo Dos- ? Sample of countries selected for the study on the impact of the implementation of 2008 SNA o Due date: end of May 2011 o Responsible: AfDB, AUC, ECA and countries ? Appointment of coordinators at REC level o Due date: end of May 2011 o Responsible: AfDB, ECA, AUC, RECs ? Self-assessment of statistical capacity using the DF-NA & ES o Due date: 30 July 2011 o Responsible: ECA, AfDB, AUC, RECs, countries and UNSD ? Report on self-assessment o Due date: October 2011 o Responsible: ECA, AfDB, AUC, RECs, countries and UNSD ? Study on the impact of the implementation of SNA 2008 in Africa o Due date: 31 December 2011 o Responsible: AGNA & 12 sample countries (Rwanda, Cameroon, Morocco and Guinea, others TBD) ? Proposed AGNA meetings o Due date: June-July 2011 or October-November 2011 o Responsible: ECA, AfDB, AUC, RECs and countries. q 10 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 ii. implementAtion oF the 2008 SnA - miSe en oeuvre Du Scn 2008 sina CUA) comme coordonnateurs r?gionaux des trois or- ganisations panafricaines, suite ? la d?cision de la cinqui?me r?union du Comit? des Directeurs G?n?raux des INS ?tab- lissant l?AGNA en organe permanent de facilitation du tra- vail sur la comptabilit? nationale en Afrique. M. Luc Mbong Mbong est le coordonateur g?n?ral. 2. Se sont f?licit?s de la d?cision d?adopter le Syst?me de comptabilit? nationale (SCN) 2008 comme th?me de la Journ?e Africaine de la Statistique 2011 et ont soulign?, qu?? cette occasion, le public cible devrait ?tre des non-compt- ables nationaux et qu?il conviendrait donc de retenir des th?mes subsidiaires comme l?utilisation de la comptabilit? nationale pour une prise de d?cision avis?e et l?am?lioration de la communication entre les INS et la soci?t? civile. 3. Se sont mis d?accord sur les points suivants en ce qui con- cerne le mandat du Groupe Africain sur la Comptabilit? Na- tionale : Le Groupe fera rapport ? la Commission Africaine de ? Statistique (StatCom-Afrique) tous les deux ans et ? son Bureau l?ann?e interm?diaire ; Le m?canisme de gouvernance du Groupe doit ?tre clar- ? i?, en se fondant sur les dispositifs existants ; Il faut mettre en place un m?canisme permettant de faire ? intervenir dans les travaux du Groupe des experts auxili- aires externes ou des consultants ind?pendants ainsi que des institutions non africaines, en qualit? d?observateurs ; Le mandat du Groupe devrait comporter des travaux de ? recherche sur les questions de comptabilit? nationale ; Il faudrait d?nir le mandat des communaut?s ? ?conomiques r?gionales (CER), qui jouent un r?le im- portant dans l?application du SCN 2008, an qu?elles puissent mieux r?pondre aux besoins de leurs ?tats membres ; et Le Groupe devrait cr?er des ?quipes sp?ciales charg?es ? de th?mes sp?ciques. 4. Ont convenu que les pays et les CER devraient indiquer aux coordonnateurs r?gionaux le nom de l?institution (ou des institutions) charg?e(s) de la production des statistiques ?conomiques et de la comptabilit? nationale, et ?galement nommer un membre et un suppl?ant au service du Groupe. 5. Ont reconnu que les banques centrales de la r?gion jouent un r?le important dans la production des statistiques ?conomiques et des comptes nationaux et, par cons?quent, qu?il serait possible de leur demander, en leur qualit? de membres du Groupe, d?appuyer certains aspects sp?ciques de l?application du SCN 2008. 6. Ont r?arm? que la Strat?gie africaine de mise en oeuvre du Syst?me de comptabilit? nationale 2008, qui est parfait- ement conforme au Programme de mise en ?uvre pour le Syst?me de comptabilit? nationale de 2008 et les statistiques connexes adopt? par la Commission de Statistique des Na- tions Unies, est le cadre directeur de l??laboration des pro- grammes nationaux d?application du SCN 2008 en Afrique. 7. Ont appr?ci? les progr?s r?alis?s de la Strat?gie Africaine vers le Document de Projet R?gional (? partir), ont convenu des points suivants et se sont engag?s ? appuyer la mise au point d?nitive du Document de Projet r?gional dans des d?lais arr?t?s : Le Document de Projet R?gional sera nalis? en y in- ? t?grant les conclusions du S?minaire et les r?sultats de l??valuation du SCN r?alis? avant le S?minaire ; La p?riode de cinq ans pr?vue pour la mise en ?uvre du ? SCN 2008 est consid?r?e comme une premi?re ?tape du processus de mise en ?uvre ; La Classication internationale type CITI R?v. 4.0 et la ? Classication centrale des produits (CPC R?v. 2.0), qui sont partie int?grante du SCN, font aussi partie du pro- gramme de mise en ?uvre du SCN 2008. 8. Ont convenu d??tablir une feuille de route relative ? la mise en ?uvre du SCN 2008 et des statistiques connexes au niveau national, tenant compte des besoins nationaux et r?- gionaux en mati?re de politique et des imp?ratifs de la Stra- t?gie africaine de mise en ?uvre du Syst?me de Comptabilit? Nationale 2008, et d?int?grer cette feuille de route ? l?examen des strat?gies nationales de d?veloppement de la statistique (SNDS) dans les pays. 9. Ont arr?t? les activit?s suivantes au sein du programme de travail du Groupe Africain sur la Comptabilit? Nationale : Cr?ation d?un site Internet pour y archiver tous les ? documents du Groupe, site dont l?acc?s sera limit? aux membres et aux observateurs du Groupe ; Cr?ation d?un forum de discussion pour les partenaires ? africains ; Lancement d?une ?tude d?impact de la mise en ?uvre du ? SCN 2008 dans les pays africains, ? partir d?un ?chantil- lon de pays ; Diusion dans les pays du mandat d?nitif du Groupe ; ? Traduction en fran?ais de l?outil d?auto?valuation pro- ? pos? par la Commission de statistique et de son manuel d?utilisation ; et mise au point des mat?riels d?information et de sen- ? sibilisation qui permettront de mobiliser des ressources nanci?res pour le Projet r?gional ainsi que la d?nition des mandats des coordonnateurs r?gionaux et des CER. 10. Ont soulign? la n?cessit? d?expliciter les questions sp?ci- ques suivantes associ?es aux changements principaux Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 11 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in ii. implementAtion oF the 2008 SnA - miSe en oeuvre Du Scn 2008 du SCN 2008 : traitement r?serv? aux SIFIM (services d?interm?diation nanci?re indirectement mesur?s), aux banques centrales r?gionales et aux syst?mes d?armes. 11. Ont reconnu le r?le important que les indicateurs ?conomiques ? court terme jouent dans la d?tection rapide de tout changement des tendances ?conomiques et ont con- venu d?examiner le bien-fond? et la faisabilit? de la collecte d?indicateurs ?conomiques ? court terme, conform?ment au cadre de r?f?rence d?Ottawa, visant ? mettre en place un cen- tre de donn?es nationales, dans le cadre du programme de mise en ?uvre du Syst?me de Comptabilit? Nationale 2008 et des statistiques connexes. 12. Ont accueilli avec satisfaction les propositions d?outils de mise en ?uvre, c?est-?-dire la che d?information sur le sys- t?me statistique, l?outil d?auto?valuation pour le diagnostic et le cadre de mise en place d?objectifs et d?actions pour attein- dre les objectifs, utiles pour la pr?paration d?un document ?non?ant une vision. 13. Ont convenu que les pays utilisent l?outil d?auto?valuation pour le diagnostic an de d?terminer leurs capacit?s statis- tiques actuelles, pour se conformer aux imp?ratifs de la Stra- t?gie africaine de mise en ?uvre du Syst?me de comptabilit? nationale de 2008, consistant ? mener diverses ?valuations des syst?mes statistiques nationaux. 14. Ont convenu de la n?cessit? de pr?parer un docu- ment ?non?ant une vision, ? partir de l?auto?valuation des probl?mes de capacit?s statistiques, an de d?nir une s?- rie de mesures pour remplir les objectifs statistiques et in- stitutionnels, et ont convenu qu?un tel document servira ? am?liorer durablement l?agenda statistique, en veillant au respect des meilleures pratiques en mati?re de statistiques ocielles. 15. Se sont f?licit?s de la mise ? jour des objectifs d??tape, des s?ries de donn?es et du cadre d??valuation de la qualit? du SCN, aux ns de contr?ler la port?e, les d?tails et la qualit? de la production des comptes nationaux. 16. Ont accueilli avec satisfaction la cr?ation par la Division Statistique des Nations Unies d?un site Internet permettant de suivre et d?appuyer le programme de mise en ?uvre du Syst?me de Comptabilit? Nationale 2008 et des statistiques connexes, ainsi que la base de connaissances pour les statis- tiques ?conomiques et les normes macro?conomiques (? laquelle les participants ont convenu de fournir du mat?riel relatif aux pratiques des pays). 17. Ont r?serv? un accueil favorable au manuel intitul? Es- sential SNA: building the basics (SCN essentiel : construc- tion des fondamentaux), ?labor? par Eurostat, et ont conv- enu que ce manuel, ainsi que d?autres guides ?labor?s par les membres du Groupe de Travail Inter Secr?tariats de Compt- abilit? Nationale, sont des outils importants pour appuyer l?application du SCN 2008. 18. Se sont f?licit?s de la mise en conformit? du logiciel ERETES avec le SCN 2008 et ont reconnu que cet outil in- formatique joue un r?le important dans la compilation des statistiques de la comptabilit? nationale dans la r?gion. 19. Ont accueilli favorablement les possibilit?s de formation oertes par l?agence de coop?ration allemande au d?veloppe- ment, GIZ, et ont convenu que les initiatives de formation pr?vues dans le cadre de la Strat?gie africaine de mise en ?uvre du Syst?me de comptabilit? nationale de 2008 ten- aient compte de ces possibilit?s ainsi que d?autres moyens de formation similaires disponibles dans la r?gion pour tirer le meilleur parti de ces possibilit?s de formation. 20. Ont demand? ? la Division Statistique de soutenir active- ment les pays africains, en coop?rant avec le Groupe Africain sur la Comptabilit? Nationale et en appuyant le programme de mise en ?uvre r?gionale du Syst?me de comptabilit? nationale de 2008 et des statistiques connexes, et d?aider ? r?soudre les dicult?s auxquelles font face les pays pour ap- pliquer certaines recommandations du SCN 2008. 21. Ont appel? : tous les partenaires de d?veloppement ? s?engager r?- ? solument en faveur de la mise en ?uvre du SCN 2008 en Afrique, par l?interm?diaire du Projet r?gional com- mun ; et les organisations panafricaines ? faire avancer la mise ? en ?uvre du Projet r?gional, ? lancer une campagne de sensibilisation et ? mobiliser des ressources pour la mise en ?uvre du Projet r?gional. 22. Se sont mis d?accord sur les indicateurs de progr?s suiv- ants en vue de l??laboration des programmes national et r?gional de mise en ?uvre du SCN 2008 et des statistiques connexes. Finalisation du Document de projet r?gional pour ? l?application du SCN 2008 en Afrique Date limite: Fin mai 2011 ? Parties charg?es de l?activit?: BAD, CEA, CUA ? Examen du Document de projet r?gional par l?AGNA ? Date limite: Prochaine r?union de l?AGNA ? Parties charg?es de l?activit? : BAD, CEA, CUA, ? pays Traduction en fran?ais du questionnaire d?auto?valuation ? (Cadre diagnostic pour les comptes nationaux et les statistiques ?conomiques connexes) et des instructions a?rentes Date limite: Avril 2011 ? Parties charg?es de l?activit? : AGNA (BAD) ? Nomination des membres de l?AGNA ? 12 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 Date limite: Fin mai 2011 ? Parties charg?es de l?activit? : BAD, CEA, CUA et ? pays (INS, banques centrales) ?chantillon de pays o? sera men?e l??tude d?impact de la ? mise en ?uvre du SCN 2008 Date limite: Fin Mai 2011 ? Parties charg?es de l?activit? : BAD, CEA, CUA et ? pays Nomination de coordonnateurs au niveau des CER ? Date limite: Fin Mai 2011 ? Parties charg?es de l?activit? : BAD, CEA, CUA, ? CER Auto?valuation des capacit?s statistiques au moyen ? du Cadre diagnostic pour les comptes nationaux et les statistiques ?conomiques connexes Date limite: 30 Juillet 2011 ? Parties charg?es de l?activit? : CEA, BAD, CUA, CER, ? pays et Division de statistique Rapport sur l?auto?valuation ? Date limite: Octobre 2011 ? Parties charg?es de l?activit? : CEA, BAD, CUA, ? CER, pays et Division de statistique ?tude d?impact de la mise en ?uvre du SCN 2008 en ? Afrique Date limite: 31 D?cembre 2011 ? Parties charg?es de l?activit? : AGNA et ?chantillon ? de 12 pays (Rwanda, Cameroun, Maroc et Guin?e, autres pays ? d?terminer) R?unions pr?vues de l?AGNA ? Date limite: Juin-Juillet, Octobre- Novembre 2011 ? Parties charg?es de l?activit? : CEA, BAD, CUA, ? CER et pays q ii. implementAtion oF the 2008 SnA - miSe en oeuvre Du Scn 2008 Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 13 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in 7th ASSD Preparations O the Ground By Lucky Ngwenya, South Africa Participants to the meeting for the preparations of the Joint 7th Africa Symposium on Statistical Development (ASSD) and the third meeting of the Statistics Commission for Africa (StatCom-Africa III) A meeting to kick-start the preparations for the Joint 7th Africa Symposium on Statistical Development (ASSD) and the third meeting of the Statistics Commission for Africa (StatCom-Africa III) was held at St George Hotel in Pretoria (South Africa) from the 18th to the 20th of April 2011. is is the rst in a series of meetings to be held in putting togeth- er the building blocks for the Joint 7th ASSD and StatCom- Africa III event to take place in Cape Town (South Africa) in January 2012. is meeting provided the participants with an opportunity to discuss the 6th ASSD Debrieng Report prepared by the ASSD Secretariat, share the Egypt?s perspec- tives of best practice and areas of improvement stemming from the 6th ASSD, review the ASSD Organizing Manual based on lessons learnt and kick-start the preparations for the 7th ASSD. e participants in the meeting represented the ASSD Secretariat, most of the previous hosts of ASSDs, namely Senegal, Ghana, Egypt as well as representatives from the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). South Africa oered to host the 2nd Conference of Ministers Responsible for Civil Registration in 2012. us, coupled with the change in focus following the prime resolution of the 6th ASSD held in Cairo (Egypt) in November 2011 from the 2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses to Civ- il Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) for the next ve years, it could only be appropriate that South Africa hosted the next ASSD. e proposed dates for these meetings are from the 23-28 January 2012 with the 7th ASSD taking place from 23-25 January 2012 and StatCom III meeting from 25- 28 January 2012. It was agreed that h Forum on African Statistical Development (FASDEV-V) meeting should take place on the rst day (that is the 22nd January 2012). How- ever, these dates are provisional as conrmation is awaited from the Statistician-General who will be guided by the dates of the January 2012 Cabinet meeting. Following a debrieng workshop held in February 2011, the ASSD Secretariat through a presentation made by Mr Lucky Ngwenya and Ms Nwabisa Maya identied best practices and areas requiring improvement when organising ASSDs in the future. Among the things that were handled with aplomb in the organisation of the 6th ASSD are (i) early communi- cation of the symposium, (ii) dedication and commitment of the ASSD Secretariat and the host country in executing the planned activities of the 6th ASSD, (iii) the availability of databases for countries and National Statistics Oces which aided communication, (iv) timeous motioning of endeavours iii. prepArAtionS oF ASSD AnD StAtcom-AFricA iii - pr?pArAtionS Du SADS et De StAtcom-AFricA iii 14 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 iii. prepArAtionS oF ASSD AnD StAtcom-AFricA iii - pr?pArAtionS Du SADS et De StAtcom-AFricA iii to secure sponsorships, (v) close interface between the Secre- tariat and the host country through meetings which spelt out roles and responsibilities between the host country and the Secretariat culminating in a Memorandum of Understand- ing which was signed ahead of time, (vi) the involvement of the hosting NSOs and committee to take the responsibility of the ASSD, (vii) continuous progress monitoring and as- sessment of state of readiness achieved through regular visits to host country. Handling of logistical arrangements and procurement pro- cesses of goods and services with the support of the host country were also done well and these included obtaining ights and accommodation quotations for the delegates at- tending the ASSD in advance. e latter facilitated smooth execution of downstream processes such as the procure- ment of ights and accommodation and payment of per diems. e project management approach adopted for the 6th ASSD ensured that there was a clearly laid out project plan which was monitored through weekly action plans and progress reporting, timely invitee follow-ups resulting nally in good attendance, prudent nancial management by the ASSD Secretariat throughout the project. Timely determi- nation of the theme and topics of the symposium eased the nalisation of the scientic programme. e few areas needing improvement in the future are (i) en- suring that there is no ambiguity in the roles of the respective roleplayers, (ii) ensuring that there is a schedule in place and it is followed for proper planning, (iii) ensuring that NSOs are apprised about the importance of sending their nomina- tions and conrmations in time, (iv) circulating the ASSD Manual to NSOs in order for aspirant host NSOs to be aware of their responsibilities, (iv) timely nalisation of the budget and sponsorship mobilisation, (v) sending out of invitation letters as soon as possible and (vi) timely nalisation of the theme and sub-themes to enable timely craing of the scien- tic programme of the symposium. Additional areas of improvement were identied by the host country representative, Mr Omar Abbas of Egypt?s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) and these included the (i) delays in the transfer of funds into the host NSO?s account, unforeseen expenses such as money required by Customs to release conference bags sent by the Secretariat, (iii) late preparation of exhibition hall, (iv) con- tinuous changes to the scientic programme, (v) duplica- tion of registration cards at the registration desks, shortage of conference bags for delegates, (vi) overloaded sessions, (vii) absence of translator from Arabic to French and (viii) diculty in nding translators with technical knowledge of statistics. e positive lessons according to the host country included (i) excellent hotel services, (ii) professional and eective handling of visa problems by embassies and Foreign Aairs Ministry, (iii) an excellent gala dinner preparations, (iv) out- standing provisions for people with disabilities and special cases, (v) provision of ecient internet services by hotels, (vi) well executed shuttle service and (vii) adequate recep- tion of delegates at the airport. e participants agreed that all lessons learnt should be taken seriously when planning for ASSDs in the future and agreed with proposals by Dr. Dimitri Sanga, Director of the Africa Centre for Statistics (ACS) at the ECA in his over- view suggested that going forward (i) a checklist must be de- veloped six months before the event, (ii) non-responses by NSOs must be vigorously followed up to avoid last minute rushes, (iii) NSOs should discuss issues that happen during the events, (iv) there should be enough time to dra resolu- tions/recommendations, (iv) a team of ve people including representative from ECA, the ASSD Secretariat, the AfDB and the hosting NSO must be composed to dra symposia resolutions/recommendations, (v) brieng session must be organised to share experiences and expectations with at least the next two NSOs in the hosting queue. Dr Sanga also shared the themes of the meetings with the participants mentioning that the theme for the 7th ASSD is ?Improving Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Institu- tional and Human Infrastructure in Africa? and that of the StatCom-Africa III meeting is: ?Harmonising Statistics in Support of Economic, Monetary and Social Integration in Africa?. StatCom-Africa reports to the conference of Minis- ters in Africa which is held every two years. e 7th ASSD dra concept note and StatCom-Africa III provisional pro- gramme of work were circulated for discussion in the meet- ing and the meeting agreed that the ACS would prepare the rst dra of the scientic programme and send to the ASSD Secretariat for completion. On ensuring the sustainability of the ASSD the meeting em- phasised the importance of implementing the 2009 Goree Island Declaration which states clearly how prospective host countries should be identied. However, in the meantime countries which are at a nancial advantage could be ap- proached by the ECA and the ASSD Secretariat. e meeting also critically assessed the content of the Manual for Orga- nising ASSDs and suggested structural changes. e edited manual will be translated into French and both the nal and translated manual will be distributed to NSOs not later than the 30th of July 2011. To enable proper budgeting, a few options comprising cat- egories and number of participants were discussed. ese would inform the venue requirements and all logistical im- plications. It was agreed that costing of the items should be done according to actual quotations received from suppli- ers. Once the budget has been drawn, eorts will be made to mobilise funding from all potential funding partners and NSOs will be encouraged to play a role by approaching those partners that are based in their countries such as the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). e 58th Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 15 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in iii. prepArAtionS oF ASSD AnD StAtcom-AFricA iii - pr?pArAtionS Du SADS et De StAtcom-AFricA iii From le to right: Mr. Dimitri Sanga, Director, ACS; Mr. Gal Omar Mokhtar Abbas, CAPMAS President advisor for International cooperation; and Mr. Babakar Fall, Deputy Director General, ANSD Senegal Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) would also serve as a platform for the mobilisation of funds for the 7th ASSD. e second 7th ASSD preparatory meeting is scheduled for 29-31 August 2011. e meeting will take place in Cape- Town. In his concluding remarks, the SG of South Africa, Mr Pali Lehohla, expressed his appreciation of the fact that there was a dedicated and capable team working on the preparations of the next meetings and expressed his condence in the team. He expressed his concern about conicts going on in other African countries and the negative impact they will have on statistical projects these countries have to run according to schedules put in place. His concerns were that (i) although there is a commitment to run a population census in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ways of helping the DRC have not been clearly outlined, (ii) Somalia has not com- mitted to undertake a population census in the 2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses and this necessitates a need to cra a strategy to help the country, (iii) the death of the former Head of the Angolan NSO has shocked the Af- rican Statistics System although Angola has put funds aside for a population census, (iv) there has been conict in C?te d?Ivoire but he hopes the country will still be able to conduct its population census in the 2010 round. Mr. Lehohla said that it is of critical importance that the ASSD is planned such that it informs the 2nd Conference of Ministers responsible for CRVS. e issue of resources will have to be addressed going forward so that the ASSD does not fail. q 16 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 iv. StAtiSticAl cApAcity BuilDing / WorkShopS - renForcement DeS cApAcit?S StAtiStiqueS / AtelierS Environmental economic accounts in Mozambique Monica Magaua, Mozambique Abstract From March 7 to 11 2011, was conducted in Ethiopia a Workshop on Environment Statistics and Accounts. It was said by the director of ACS that ?environment statistics is an area that is still underdeveloped in many parts of the world?. Africa is not an exception. ere is a lot that should be done in order to have some advances on this matter. During the above mentioned workshop, various topics were treated, among them, the: ? Introduction to the system of environmental and eco- nomic accounting, SEEA.? It is regarding to the, introduction to the SEEA, which I would write a little bit of. Since I am a national accountant and SEEA in some way can be considered as a satellite account of the system of na- tional accounts, SNA, this subject is of my personal interest to develop. We used some data on Mozambican production of mineral resources and applied the techniques suggested by the SEEA to compile depletion and adjusted to the traditional national accounts indicators such as GDP and Operating surplus. We conclude that, if we included depletion of mineral resources into traditions national accounts indicators, they would ap- pear less than they really are. Introduction Economic growth and environmental assets of Mozam- bique e System of National Accounts (SNA) is a complex sys- tem, which follows a number of widely-accepted accounting conventions. ese conventions ensure logical consistency across the dierent components of the accounts, guarantee- ing that a given type of entry has the same meaning in all contexts and in all countries. is standardization is essen- tial for the accounts to be a reliable source of comparable data about the economies of many dierent countries. At the same time, this standardization makes it dicult to change the SNA in order to introduce a quite dierent ?product? like the goods and services provided by the environment. e diculty arises primarily because most environmental goods and services are not-traded in conventional markets; thus it is hard both to dene discrete products and to put a monetary value on them. e economic growth in Mozambique has been strong (7.0% on average), although the level of GDP is still low. e agriculture sector has the highest share in the country?s economy. Certainly, this performance has to some extent occurred from the exploitation of natural (non-replaceable) resources (deforestation causing rising CO2 emissions). It could be expected that in near future the carbon emissions will rise signicantly as the big ?foreign? companies exploit- ing minerals have new contracts. Up to now, the contribution of mineral resources is very low, around 1.15% of GDP. It is expected that in the next 2 to 3 years its contribution will double or triple due to the new discoveries and big investments that are being done in the industry. e inclusion of environment into the accounts e determination of environmental accounts requires a bulk of information on statistics that in many cases are sim- ply absent. Nonetheless, the data approach enables the de- termination of an approach that still needs to be developed. e need for environmental accounts for Mozambique stands from the fact that the country relies considerably on natural resources for the day-to-day economy dynamics. Specically for the growing discoveries on reserves of natu- ral gas and heavy sand minerals which rises some worries about environmental impacts of its exploration, despite that the contribution to the GDP might be considerable. Fur- thermore, forthcoming analysis might address the possibil- ity to impose some taxation on is exploration in the context that explorer might pay now for its future extinction. In Mozambique, the late poverty assessment showed stagna- tion, despite the fact that the economy continued to grow. is sustain that the welfare is not a function of consump- tion as it is measured in the Standard System of National Ac- counts, because other type of consumption are not capture in the national accounts, such as leisure, income distribu- tion, environmental services, health and safety. Environmental accounting is an important tool for under- standing the role played by the natural resources in the economy. Environmental accounts provide data that high- lights both the contribution of natural resources to econom- ic well-being and the costs imposed by pollution or resource degradation. e approach of determining the environmentally adjust- ed GDP e central framework for the SNA recommends the calcu- lation of the Gross Value Added (GVA) of an economic ac- Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 17 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in tivity which is calculated by the subtraction of intermediate consumption from the gross production. GVA is distributed among wages and salaries, operating surplus and consump- tion of xed capital. For the case of mineral resources, the mineral extraction ex- ceeding comes from the dierence between the sales value and the costs incurred from the extraction; it ignores that the availability of mineral resources is reduced due to its ex- traction and utilization. In this regard, mineral extraction implies a reduction (loss) in its stocks (depreciation of non- productive assets). e monetary value of this loss is contained (included) in the owner?s revenue. is economic value should not constitute revenue; it should be taken out from the operating surplus. Once it ignores the value of the extracted mineral resources, it also does not consider the environmental depreciation. e concept of depletion is important. It deals with how to estimate the value of the stock of a natural resource and con- siders how changes in the value of the stock might be con- sidered to aect the value of national income. GVA ? depletion = GVA depletion adjusted; GDP ? depletion = GDP depletion adjusted; Depletion = RR / (1+r)n RR, resource rent; r= discount rate Conclusion and recommendations For the case of Mozambique, the calculations had shown that if the GDP where calculated with the inclusion of the deduction of the use of natural resources, the ?true? level of the economy, would in fact be lower than those that has been shown in the SNA. Since it is still not mandatory in the compilation of NA, and there is not a lot done, it would be a great idea to start the implementation of SEEA and make comparisons among African countries in order to improve the knowledge. q iv. StAtiSticAl cApAcity BuilDing / WorkShopS - renForcement DeS cApAcit?S StAtiStiqueS / AtelierS ERETES and the International Comparison Program Steve Loris Gui-Diby, ACS and Joelle Bourgmayer-Haas, TRASYS A training of trainers? workshop on national accounts in the Inter- national Program of Comparison (ICP) was organized in Addis- Ababa from May 16th to 20th 2011 jointly by World Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission of for Africa (UNECA). Speakers of the meeting were experts and representatives of ICP Global Oce of the World Bank and Eurostat. e par- ticipants were ocials of African Development Bank (AfDB), African Centre for Statistics (ACS) and Ministry Of Fi- nance and Economic Development (MOFED) of Ethiopia. e purpose of this advanced training program was to train the participants as trainers of the technical sta the African national statistical oces (NSOs), in order to obtain the data of accountancy in accordance with the requirements of ICP. Moreover, it was an ideal opportunity of conrming the idea of a synergy between ICP and ERETES. From this point of view, UNECA had asked Eurostat to present ERETES soware and results of a preliminary study of its compatibility with the re- quirements of the ICP in the aforementioned eld. us, a ses- sion relating to this topic was devoted throughout the meeting. Let us recall for this purpose that UNECA organized from April 4th to 8th 2011, a training on ERETES for ECA sta and national accountants of MOFED. At the end of this very detailed presenta- tion of all the aspects of ERETES, all participants were convinced of the utility of this soware to produce national accounts of quality. UNECA which is also involved in ICP 2011 project had, for this purpose, emitted the proposal of the development of an ICP module for ERETES. Indeed, ICP 2011 has just begun and will extend until end of 2013. ICP objective is to compile comparable data regarding prices, on world level, to estimate the purchasing power parities (PPP) by capitalizing data of national ac- counting according to a classication of 155 basic elements. During the session devoted to ERETES, the consultant ap- pointed by Eurostat rst briey presented the functionalities and the methodology implemented in the soware. Repre- sentative of ICP Global Oce conrmed that the quality of the accounts built by respecting the recommended method was in conformity with the requirements of ICP program. e supply and use table extracted from an ERETES database concerning accounting year 2005 of an Af- rican country allowed to note that all information necessary for ICP was there, but in a dierent clas- sication (except for acquisitions of valuable articles 160210 which will be added in version ERETES 2008). e comparison of the classication of products used for the national accounts in this country show that, with some rare exceptions, one nds in na- tional classication the ICP products, either exactly, or on a more detailed level, or on an aggregate level. Only this last case raises a problem, which accord- ing to experts in national accounting, can be solved by a bridge table, determination of the weighting co- ecients belonging the work of estimate to which the national accountants are accustomed and for which they have a panoply of tools and indicators. 18 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 iv. StAtiSticAl cApAcity BuilDing / WorkShopS - renForcement DeS cApAcit?S StAtiStiqueS / AtelierS e participants concluded that for a country which has been used ERETES for several years, to full the require- ments of the ICP would summarize with the following tasks: From here to end of 2011: To use the last consolidated ERETES database? To dene the bridge table between classication of product ? ERETES in the classication and ICP products (a) To translate ERETES database in classication ICP (b)? To extract the ICP data from translated ERETES database to ? ll ICP table 1 (c) From here to middle of 2013? To build the national accounts of the year 2011 (d)? At the end of 2013? To translate ERETES database 2011 in classication ICP (b)? To extract the ICP data from translated ERETES database to ? ll ICP table 1 (c) Translation of ERETES database in ICP classication (b) and selection of ICP data (c) are tasks which could be computer- ized. Proposed tools (ERETES-PCI module) would concern: 1. an extension of the current tool for change of classication which allows only relations from 1 to N (1 product of the destination table corresponds to 1 or several products of the starting table), to allow relations from N to N (1 or several products of the destination table correspond to 1 or several products of the starting table) ; 2. an edition procedure allowing to export directly on Excel, the ICP 155 headings . At the end of the workshop, relating to this point of agen- da, the following recommendations were made: Agreed that ERETES is SNA Compliant and, with ? a module to be developed, it is ICP Compliant as well. is IT-tool can be a valuable asset and play an important role in supporting the compilation of the National Accounts in the region. Accordingly, recommended: ERETES owners to take into account of the ? conclusions of the present seminar and extend the needed support. An ICP module be developed and disseminated ? with the support of the Global Oce of ICP and the technical support of Eurostat. A presentation on ERETES and its application to ICP ? to be made during the forthcoming AfDB regional meeting of ICP coordinators in June 2011. us, countries already using ERETES would be called to prepare bridge tables in order to use the ERETES ICP module. ere is a need to further sensitize and advertise ? ERETES as a useful tool for the compilation of national accounts in non-French speaking countries in Africa. UNECA would organize a seminar or workshop to ? train countries on the ERETES module on ICP upon the request from Member States. q ERETES et le Programme de Comparaison International Steve Loris Gui-Diby, CAS et Joelle Bourgmayer-Haas, TRASYS Un atelier de formation des formateurs portant sur les comptes na- tionaux dans le Programme de Comparaison International (PCI) ?tait organis? ? Addis-Abeba du 16 au 20 mai 2011 conjointement par la Banque Mondiale et par la Commission Economique des Na- tions Unies pour l?Afrique (CEA). Les animateurs de la r?union ?taient des experts et des repr?sentants du Bureau Mondial du PCI de la Banque Mondiale et d?EuroStat. Les participants ?taient des fonctionnaires de la Banque Afric- aine de D?veloppement (BAD), du Centre Africain pour la Statis- tiques (CAS) et du Minist?re des Finances et du D?veloppement Economique (MOFED) d?Ethiopie. L?objectif de ce programme de formation avanc?e ?tait de former les participants ? former ? leur tour le personnel technique des insti- tuts nationaux de statistique africains en vue d?obtenir les donn?es de comptabilit? conform?ment aux exigences du PCI. En outre, il s?agissait d?une occasion id?ale de conrmer l?id?e d?une synergie entre PCI et ERETES. Dans cette perspective, la CEA avait demand? ? Eurostat de pr?senter le logiciel ERETES et les r?sultats d?une ?tude pr?liminaire de sa compatibilit? avec les exi- gences du PCI dans ledit domaine. Aussi, a-t-il ?t? con- sacr? tout au long de la r?union une session portant sur ce th?me. Rappelons ? cet eet que la CEA a organis? du 4 au 8 Avril 2011 une formation sur ERETES ? l?attention du person- nel du CAS et des comptables nationaux du Minist?re des Finances et du D?veloppement Economique de l?Ethiopie. A la n de cette pr?sentation tr?s d?taill?e de tous les aspects d?ERETES, tous les participants ?taient convaincus de l?utilit? de ce logiciel pour produire des comptes nationaux de qualit?. La CEA qui est ?galement impliqu?e dans le projet PCI 2011 avait, ? cet eet, ?mis l?hypoth?se du d?veloppe- ment d?un module PCI associ? ? ERETES. En eet, le PCI 2011 vient de d?buter et doit s??tendre jusqu?? n 2013. L?objectif du PCI est de compiler des donn?es com- parables des prix au niveau mondial pour estimer les Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 19 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in parit?s de pouvoir d?achat (PPA) en capitalisant les don- n?es de comptabilit? nationale selon une nomenclature de 155 ?l?ments basiques. Au cours de la session consacr?e ? ERETES, la consultante d?p?ch?e par Eurostat a tout d?abord bri?vement pr?sent? les fonctionnalit?s et la m?thodologie mise en ?uvre dans le logiciel. Le repr?sentant du Bureau Central pour le PCI a conrm? que la qualit? des comptes b?tis en respectant la m?thode pr?conis?e ?tait conforme aux exigences du programme PCI. Le Tableau Ressource Emploi d?une base ERETES concer- nant les comptes nationaux 2005 d?un pays Africain a per- mis de constater que toute l?information requise pour le PCI y gurait mais dans une nomenclature di?rente (sauf pour les acquisitions moins objets de valeur 160210) qui seront ajout?s dans la version ERETES 2008) La comparaison de la nomenclature de produits utilis?e pour les comptes nationaux dans le pays en question mon- tre que, ? quelques rares exceptions pr?s, on retrouve dans la nomenclature nationale les produits du PCI, soit exacte- ment, soit ? un niveau plus d?taill?, soit ? un niveau plus agr?g?. Seul ce dernier cas soul?ve un probl?me, qui aux dires des experts en comptabilit? nationale peut ?tre r?solu par une table de passage, la d?termination des coecients de pond?ration relevant du travail d?estimation auxquels les comptables nationaux sont habitu?s et pour lesquels ils disposent d?une panoplie d?outils et d?indicateurs. Les participants ont conclu que pour un pays qui utilisait ERETES depuis plusieurs ann?es, r?pondre aux exigences du PCI se r?sumerait aux t?ches suivantes La traduction de la base ERETES dans la nomenclature du PCI (b) ainsi que l?extraction des donn?es du PCI (c) sont des t?ches qui pourraient ?tre informatis?es. Les outils ?voqu?s (module ERETES-PCI) rel?veraient 1. d?une extension de l?actuel outil de changement de nomen- clature qui ne permet que des relations de 1 ? n (1 produit de la table de destination correspond ? 1 ou plusieurs produits de la table de d?part), pour permettre des relations de n ? n (1 ou plusieurs produits de la table de destination correspon- dent ? 1 ou plusieurs produits de la table de d?part); 2. d?une proc?dure d??dition permettant d?exporter directe- ment sous Excel, les 155 ?l?ments du PCI. A la n de l?atelier, concernant ce point de l?agenda, les recom- mandations suivantes ont ?t? faites : Les participants ? cette r?union reconnaissent qu?ERETES est conforme au Syst?me de Comptabilit? Nationale et que, sous r?serve de l?addition d?outils compl?mentaires (module ERETES-PCI), il est ?galement conforme aux exigences du PCI. Ce logiciel joue un r?le important et est un atout pour soutenir la production des comptes nationaux dans la r?gion. En cons?quence, ils recommandent que : Les propri?taires d?ERETES (Eurostat et la Coop?raion ? Fran?aise) prennent en consid?ration les conclusions de cet atelier ; Un module ERETES-PCI soit d?velopp? et distribu? avec ? l?appui du Bureau Mondial du PCI et le support tech- nique d?Eurostat ; iv. StAtiSticAl cApAcity BuilDing / WorkShopS - renForcement DeS cApAcit?S StAtiStiqueS / AtelierS 20 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 Une pr?sentation d?ERETES et de son application ? au PCI soit faite au cours de la prochaine r?union r?gionale des coordonnateurs du PCI (Juin 2011) au cours de laquelle les pays utilisant d?j? ERETES seront invit?s ? pr?parer des tables de passage en vue d?utiliser le module PCI d?ERETES ; Les pays non-francophones d?Afrique soient mieux ? inform?s des atouts ERETES pour la compilation des comptes nationaux ; La CEA organise un atelier ou un s?minaire pour former ? des pays sur le module PCI d?ERETES ? la demande des pays membres. q ECOWAS Workshop on Environment Statistics, 28 March to 1 April 2011, Dakar, Senegal Negussie Gorfe, ACS Background e United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in collabo- ration with the Secretariat of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the United Nations Envi- ronment Programme (UNEP), and the United Nations Eco- nomic Commission for Africa (ECA) has organized four workshops on Environment Statistics for the West African sub-region since 2005. e main purpose of the current Workshop on Environment Statistics and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that was held in Dakar, Senegal from 28 March to 1 April 2011 was to formulate an environ- ment statistics programme for the West African sub-region. Objectives of the workshop e main objectives of the workshop were to collect data on the MDGs? GOAL 7, Ensuring Environmental Sustainabil- ity, agreed indicators; to discuss data quality; the use of the methodology sheets on a set of selected core indicators as well as dissemination of environment statistics. e specic objectives of the workshop were : To review the methodoloy sheets for the selected core 1. indicators; To agree on the timetable for the production of quality 2. environment statistics in member states and sub-regional aggregates for monitoring the MDGs; and To adopt a plan for the production of the compendium of 3. environment statistics for the West African sub-region. Proceeding of the workshop e workshop was attended by participants from all ECOW- AS member countries, except Cape Verde. Every country was represented by two delegates, one from the national statistical oce and the other from the ministry of envi- ronment. In addition, the representatives of UNSD, ECA, UNEP, the two ECOWAS consultants as well as sta of the ECOWAS Commission were represented at the workshop. e Workshop was opened by welcoming speeches of the repre- sentatives of ECOWAS and UNSD and this was followed by the election of ocers, adoption of the agenda and work schedule. e work schedule consisted of eight sessions that in- cluded regional and international developments in envi- ronment statistics; country experiences and international data; review of methodology sheets for land, agriculture, forestry, biodiversity freshwater, coastal and marine re- sources, natural disasters, air, energy, health and environ- ment, and waste; development of the ECOWAS sub-regional compendium on environment statistics; next steps in the implementation of the ECOWAS sub-regional environ- ment statistics programme; and the closing session that covered adoption of conclusions and recommendations. e ECOWAS sub-region selected 44 core indicators out of the 108 indicators that were recommended for com- pilation in its 2008 Abuja workshop. e core indica- tors were selected in the Accra workshop that was held in March 2010 and again revised on 13 March 2011. e selected core indicators by themes are: Natural Disasters and Environmental Performance (2) Percentage of population living in hazard prone areas ? Human and economic loss due to natural disasters ? Air (5) Carbon dioxide emissions, total, per capita and per 1$ ? GDP (PPP) Emissions of greenhouse gases total, per capita and per ? 1$ GDP (PPP) Deviation of annual average precipitation from long ? term annual average Deviation of annual average temperature from long ? term annual average Consumption of ozone-depleting substances ? Land (2) Land aected by desertication ? Land use change ? iv. StAtiSticAl cApAcity BuilDing / WorkShopS - renForcement DeS cApAcit?S StAtiStiqueS / AtelierS Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 21 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in Agriculture (4) Proportion of agricultural land area under irrigation ? Use of agricultural pesticides per unit of agricultural ? land Use of fertilizers per unit of agricultural land ? Livestock density (number of livestock per unit of pas- ture land) Forests and Woodlands (4) Proportion of land area covered by forest ? Rate of aorestation/deforestation ? Proportion of exports of forestry products ? Proportion of forest protected area to the total forest ? area Coastal and marine resources (5) Percentage of total population living in coastal areas ? Coastal area lost to erosion ? Number of marine species threatened with ? extinction Proportion of marine area protected ? Total and per capita marine sh catch ? Freshwater (5) Proportion of population using an improved drinking ? water source Proportion of population served by the water supply ? industry, total, urban, rural Total annual renewable freshwater resource per ? capita Waste water treatment ? Proportion of population connected to waste water ? collecting system and waste water treatment Biodiversity (4) Proportion of terrestrial area protected, total and by ? ecological region Number and area of Ramsar sites ? reatened plant species as a percentage of total ? known plant species reatened animal species as a percentage of total known ? animal species Energy (5) Primary energy production, total, per capita and by source ? Electricity production total, per capita and by source ? Energy consumption total, per capita and per unit of GDP ? Traditional fuel use as a percentage of total energy ? consumption Proportion of household with access to electricity ? Waste (4) Amount of waste generated ? Municipal waste generated per capita ? Proportion of population served by municipal waste ? collection Amount of hazardous waste generated ? Health and Environment (4) Proportion of population using improved sanitation facility ? Proportion of urban population living in slums ? Incidence of water related diseases ? Incidence of air pollution related diseases ? Conclusions of the workshop e following were the main conclusions of the workshop. e methodology sheets for the 44 core indicators were - ? nalized during the workshop. e methodology sheets will be used in the collection and compilation of environment statis- tics in the ECOWAS sub-region. A timetable was agreed upon by the participants of the work- ? shop in order to return the completed questionnaires on the 44 core indicators to the ECOWAS Commission by rst Sep- tember 2011. A committee was constituted to review the dra compendium ? on environment statistics for the sub-region and the method- ology sheets for the non-core indicators that are expected to be ready by March 2012. q iv. StAtiSticAl cApAcity BuilDing / WorkShopS - renForcement DeS cApAcit?S StAtiStiqueS / AtelierS 22 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 e Training-for-Trainers Seminar on the International Comparison Program National Accounts Component Steve Gui-Diby and Issoufou Seidou, ACS The seminar was jointly organized by the African Centre for Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commis- sion for Africa (UNECA) and the International Compari- son Program (ICP) Global Oce of the World Bank from the 16th to the 20th of May 2011, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was attended by about 20 participants who were experts and resource persons from the ICP Global Oce, the Eu- rostat, and the African Development Bank (AfDB); as well as sta members of the ACS and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MOFED) of the Government of Ethiopia. e purpose of the seminar was to strengthen the technical capacity of the participants, to prepare for UNECA to active- ly participate and contribute to the ICP program especially in the ICP-Africa 2011 and to technically assist MOFED to resolve problems and diculties encountered in the area of ICP National Accounts. It is an advanced training program; and, aer the seminar, the participants are expected to be able to provide training to technical sta in African national statistical oces (NSOs) so that national accounts can be compiled with high quality for both the ICP and other pro- grams. Participants of the seminar: 1. Greatly appreciated the professionalism, excellent presentations, and rm support of the Experts and Resource Persons; as well as the opportunity well guided by the Ex- perts and Resource Persons to thoroughly discuss the fol- lowing subjects and issues and as a result the participants are ready to support the related training to NSOs: National Accounts framework, data sources, activities ? and reporting requirements for ICP. e improvements in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ? breakdown in the 2011 ICP Round: assessment of own account production, dwelling services, construction of dwellings and farms, government consumption of xed capital, private non-prot institutions serving households and nancial intermediation services indirectly measured; e structure and use of Supply Use Table (SUT);? e approaches to split the GDP in order to produce ? nal consumption expenditure data at the basic headings level; e classications of basic headings;? e validation of GDP expenditures data; ? e use of ERETES for ICP; and? e major issues to be focused in the regional workshops ? on ICP National Accounts. 2. Recognized the importance of the issue of exhaus- tiveness in National Accounts and planned to take it into ac- count in UNECA project on informal sector. Further study would be conducted to apply and propose methodology in order to fulll the exhaustiveness requirements of National Accounts in ICP through the informal sector project. 3. Recognized that where countries participating in the ICP are not following SNA rules with respect to the mea- surement of subsistence agriculture, own-account construc- tion of dwellings, imputed rents for owner?occupied dwell- ings, consumption of xed capital for government assets, the inclusion of NPIS production and consumption, and the allocation of FISIM to consuming sectors, they should be persuaded to make the necessary corrections to their ocial national accounts which will be used for ICP 2011 4. Requested UNECA to continue working on estab- lishing a correspondence table between the ICP Classica- tion and the FAO Commodity Classication for making a better use of the related crops and livestock statistics in the FAO database for ICP. 5. Agreed that ERETES is SNA Compliant and, with a module to be developed, it is ICP Compliant as well. is IT-tool can be a valuable asset and play an important role in supporting the compilation of the National Accounts in the region. Accordingly, recommended: ERETES owners to take into account of the conclusions ? of the present seminar and extend the needed support. An ICP module be developed and disseminated with the ? support of the Global Oce of ICP and the technical support of Eurostat. A presentation on ERETES and its application to ICP to ? be made during the forthcoming AfDB regional meeting of ICP coordinators in June 2011. us, countries already using ERETES would be called to prepare bridge tables in order to use the ERETES ICP module. ere is a need to further sensitize and advertise ERETES ? as a useful tool for the compilation of national accounts in non-French speaking countries in Africa. UNECA would organize a seminar or workshop to train ? countries on the ERETES module on ICP upon the request from Member States. 6. Recognized that there is synergy between the qual- ity requirements of ICP and the activities of the project on the implementation of the 2008 SNA in Africa. iv. StAtiSticAl cApAcity BuilDing / WorkShopS - renForcement DeS cApAcit?S StAtiStiqueS / AtelierS Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 23 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in 7. Agreed that UNECA would work on the clustering of countries for each basic heading in the African region and work on a validation table of expenditure, while the Global Oce will provide the needed background information and elements. Welcomed and called for the support and cooperation of the ICP Global Oce, AfDB, Eurostat, and other develop- ment partners in order to achieve the above mentioned targets. q International Workshop: Towards Harmonization of Time Use Surveys at the Global Level with Special Reference to Developing Countries Issoufou Seidou Sanda, ACS e International Workshop on Towards Harmonization of Time Use Surveys at the Global Level with Special Reference to Developing Countries was organized in Delhi, India from 6 to 8 April 2011 by the Center for Development Alternatives which is a well-known research center in India, focusing on development studies. e conference came as a result of the observation that there was a mismatch between the useful- ness of time use data and there popularity among scholar on one hand and their little use by policy makers, the low quality and the low frequency of the surveys on the other. e main objective of the conference was ?to promote harmonization of concepts and methods of conducting time-use surveys and analysis of time use statistics at the global level, with special reference to developing countries, to promote time use surveys as a major tool to understand comprehensively, measure quantitatively and address specically the multiple dimensions of gender inequality at the national and inter- national levels?1. e conference was attended by experts from the Center for Development Alternatives (CFDA), UN Women, International Working Group on Gender and Mac- roeconomics (IWG GM), the International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacic (UNESCAP), the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and Ca- ribbean (UNECLAC) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). Aer the opening statements, the workshop proceeded with the rst technical session which was about the assessment of concepts and methods used in conducting time use surveys in developing and emerging countries and the need for har- monization. e three presentations were from Dr Indira Hirway, director and professor of economics at the Center for Development Alternatives, Dr Valeria Esquivel, assis- tant professor of economics at the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmientos and instructor at the International Working Group on Gender and Macroeconomics, and Dr Jaques Charmes, director of the Department of Social and Health Sciences at the Institute for Research and Develop- ment. ese papers talked mainly about the diversity in the objectives and designs of time use surveys in developing and emerging countries, the variety in the classications and collection tools used, the problems met and the importance of harmonization. e second technical session dealt with the issues in the analysis of time use statistics including experiences of multi-country time use surveys. is was an opportunity to discuss the problems met on the demand side of time use surveys data. e presentations were done by Dr Margerita Guerrero, statistics advisor at UNESCAP, Dr Klas Ryden- stam from Statistics Sweden and Dr Sonia Montana, direc- tor of the Division of Gender Aairs in UNECLAC. e technical session three focused on the eorts toward the harmonization of the classication of time use activities. Dr Srjan Mrkic, chief of Social and Housing Statistics at the Sta- tistics Division of UNSD gave an overview of the evolution that resulted in the current trial version of the International Classication of Activities for Time Use Statistics (ICA- TUS). He stressed the fact that ICATUS was still a trial clas- sication and gave the activities that UNSD was planning to conduct for its nalization. Dr Michael Bittman, president of the International Association for Time Use Research and professor at the University of New England discussed how classications of time use activities have evolved and gave the main issues in the denition of a standard classication. He insisted in particular on the information loss when re- spondents? answers are mapped to a standard classication and pleaded for more exibility in the way information on time use is captured via questionnaires. Finally, Dr Indira Hirway from the Centre for Development Alternatives pre- sented the experience of India and explained why ICATUS was not considered as suitable in the time use surveys in India. She stressed the fact that the objectives of time use surveys were not the same in developed and developing countries. As a result it is dicult to nd a classication that is suitable for both needs. From the discussions that followed, it appeared that one reason the harmonization of time use activities was dicult was the fact that the activities had to be captured with their contextual variables: when, where, with whom, for which purpose, etc. For example, the purpose of an activity may determine whether it falls in the SNA production boundary or only the general production boundary (non SNA activity). Diculties arise for example when an activity is done for one purpose but its results end up being used for another purpose (e.g. unsold goods pro- iv. StAtiSticAl cApAcity BuilDing / WorkShopS - renForcement DeS cApAcit?S StAtiStiqueS / AtelierS 1. Centre for Development alternative, http://www.cfda.ac.in/international_seminars.html, retrieved on 10 April 2011. 24 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 duced for the market but eventually used for household con- sumption). e issue raised here was whether an activity classication should use only one line for a given activity (and capture the context by other means) or create several lines, one for each dierent context of a given activity. ere are advantages and disadvantages for each choice. But the discussions showed that there were also some good practices in the harmonisation of time use activities, one be- ing the Harmonised European Time Surveys (HETUS). e technical session four was about understanding SNA through time use statistics. e main point here was the lim- itation of the System of National Accounts when it comes to capturing all the activities that contribute to the well be- ing in a given economy. e SNA production boundary is quite restrictive and excludes many services produced in the household for own consumption. is has implications for the measurement of the informal sector and the capture of the labour force participation of women for example. Dr Jaques Charmes presented a paper on ?understanding in- formal sector employment using time use statistics? co-au- thored with Dr Indira Hirway. According to this paper the major advantages of time use surveys in estimating and un- derstanding informal economy and informal employment were the fact that they provide complete information with- out any biases, they are well adapted to the capturing of ex- ible work time arrangements, they give good estimates of subsistence work and they help understanding the informal economy by giving information on the unpaid economy. Mr Salil Mukhopadhyay, director NSSO, SDRD, Kolkata, made a presentation on the complimentarity between convention- al labour force surveys and time use surveys in the context of India. Labour Force Surveys are now well established but there is still debate on whether they are exible enough to capture the same category of information as time use sur- veys. He indicated that time use surveys are particularly im- portant in capturing non-SNA productive activities, but key labour force indicators derived from time use surveys may not be compatible with those obtained from LFS because of the dierences in concepts and coverage. e two categories or surveys are therefore complementary. e technical session ve was titled ?further analysis of time use statistics?. ere were two presentations of experiences in compiling households? satellite accounts with time use data. e rst experience was from Korea and was present- ed by Dr Ki-Soo Eun from the Graduate School of Interna- tional Studies in Seoul. e second presentation was done by Dr Savita Sharma director of Perspective and Planning Division in the Planning Commission of the Government of India. Aer these two presentations, Dr Valeria Esquivel talked about the new policy agendas for time-use data col- lection, een years aer Beijing. For Dr Esquivel, the main rea- sons time use data have not been able to reach the level of policy making and decision taking were the excessive focus on the valu- ing of women contribution to GDP, the lack of clear distributive agenda and the poor design of some time use surveys. e theme of the technical session six was ?addressing poverty and human development related issues using time use statistics?. Dr Ajit Zacharias from the Levy Economics Institute of Bard Col- lege presented a model that integrated time poverty with the other classical dimensions of poverty in order to arrive to a new formula for the calculation of the poverty line. e paper shows that the classical poverty line based on income or expenditure needed to be adjusted by a factor taking into account time poverty in order to get a poverty measurement that is more relevant for policy is- sues. As time poverty can be only captured with time use data, this is a good illustration of the importance of time use data for bet- ter informed evidence based decision. Mr Omar Abdourahman from the African Center for Gender and Development in UNECA made a presentation titled ?Time poverty: a contribution to Wom- en?s poverty??. Using the African context, Mr Omar Abdourah- man showed the crucial importance of the information collected with time use surveys for the understanding of certain aspects of poverty, in particular women poverty. He also showed how time use data can be used to improve the monitoring of almost all the MDG goals. Finally, Dr Preet Rustagi from the Institute of Human Development in New Delhi talked about the importance of time use data for a better measurement of child labour. e technical session seven dealt with the potential role of time use statistics in formulating and monitoring macroeconomic policies. e driving line was that the ?unpaid economy? was not isolated from the market economy. ere were interactions be- tween the two that needed to be taken into account for eective macroeconomic policy and planning. It was argued that the un- paid work was actually subsidising the paid economy and served sometimes as buer when there were shocks. Dr Rania Antono- poulos from the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College pre- sented simulation results from a macroeconomic model based on a gender-disaggregated social accounting matrix (SAM) and a time use satellite account built for the south-Africa economy. e model was used to assess the impact of scaling up South Africa?s Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) which is a public job creation initiative. e model was in particular able to show substitution eects between paid and unpaid work. Dr Indira Hir- way then talked about the linkages between trade liberalization and unpaid work: Under the competitive pressure resulting from liberalization, more and more entrepreneurs are using women working at home under contractual agreements that oen escape labour regulations. As a result, women are paying the price for the gains in competitivety and this is not being captured by tra- ditional measurement tools. Time use surveys can help shed light on the issue in order to design corrective macroeconomic poli- iv. StAtiSticAl cApAcity BuilDing / WorkShopS - renForcement DeS cApAcit?S StAtiStiqueS / AtelierS Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 25 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in cies. Finally, Dr Lekha Chakrabarti from National Institute of Public Finance and Policy made a presentation on the in- tegration of time use in gender budgeting. e technical session eight was a panel discussion about in- tegrating unpaid work in macroeconomics. e last session of the workshop was titled ?looking for- ward?. It started with a presentation about ?developing a broad strategy for mainstreaming time use surveys at na- tional and international level?. e presentation was made by Dr J Dash and Dr Dimitri Papadmitriou. e presentation was followed by interventions from Dr Srdjan Mrkic, chief Social and Housing Statistics in the Statistics Divisionm of UNSD, Dr Michael Bittman, president of IATUR, Dr Ra- nia Antonopoulos, co-director of GEM IWG, Dr Margerita Gurrero, statistics advisor at UNESCAP, Dr Sonia Montano, Director Division of genders Aairs at UNECLAC and Mr Issoufou Seidou Sanda, statistician in the African Centre for Statistics at UNECA. e interventions were about the fu- ture activities in time use surveys and the way to proceed with the harmonization process. Overall, the conference gave a very good overview of the various applications of time use survey. It highlighted the variety of the needs and the diculties of harmonising the dierent aspects of time use surveys, in particular the clas- sications and the surveys designs. But it also showed that a lot of progress has been made in since the inception of time use survey and that the objective of harmonization was not out of reach. q Workshop on ERETES Module, Addis - Ababa - 4-8 April 2011 G?rard Osbert and Steve Gui-Diby, ACS Background and history is national accounting soware was presented to the team of the African Centre for Statistics (ACS) of the United Na- tions Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) as well as to the sta of the Ethiopian Ministry of nance and Economic Development, supports in this country of national accounts. is 5-day-workshop brought together a dozen of statisti- cians and primarily focused on the IT aspects of the mod- ule. ERETES - ?Supply and Use Balance ? Input/output Table? - was developed by the French Ministry of Cooperation and the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Stud- ies (INSEE) ; its rst operational version made available in 1997. e development team was led by Michel S?ruzier and based in CREPFI, a research laboratory in Lyon. e soware was rapidly released in francophone African countries via Afristat, then in Latin America; its manage- ment passed from European Centre for Training of Statisti- cian Economist of developing countries (CESD) community to Eurostat; ERETES is now translated into four languages (French, English, Spanish and Portuguese) and is used by some 32 countries, including a single English speaking country - Ghana. e idea was therefore to ask Eurostat to consider the dissemination of this tool in a dozen English- speaking African countries before generalizing it to the whole continent in the interests of harmonisation facilitat- ing - among others - ICP (International Comparison Pro- gramme). Content and organization of the Module ERETES covers today the core of national accounting, i.e. the ow accounting; it is a powerful tool to aid in the pro- duction of accounts by a team to which a rigorous and pre- cise organization is proposed, including the following key points: ? Linking analytical tasks and syntheses via explicit arbi- trations, within a network; ? Connecting systematically calculation sequences after validation of intermediate results and re-sharing data for the next step. ERETES is a congurable system which can be adapted to the dierent levels of complexity of national systems (in- cluding classication of operations), and according to data availability, in compliance with 1993 SNA and soon 2008 SNA standards. e ERETES Module is a triple system which allows ac- companying the national accounting team, both as an ex- pert system (more than a thousand hyper-notations on a single click) and a help to decision making; it includes a storage function, processing principles and an organiza- tion: 1. Storing information in the relational database (RDB): the core of the Module consists in the RDB developed un- der PROGRESS-Release-9, saving all data necessary for the preparation of the accounts for the base year and the current year; in addition to the economic information, it should be noted that quantity and employment data are also stored (23 attributes by data). 2. Approach and tools for data manipulation: three types of tools are available: a) loading of sources in the database and exporting the results at any stage of development: these operations are iv. StAtiSticAl cApAcity BuilDing / WorkShopS - renForcement DeS cApAcit?S StAtiStiqueS / AtelierS 26 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 use Excel exclusively; b) consultation and adjustment of the information in the RDB: this is an iterative approach to be achieved in 3 phas- es: selection, analysis, characterization; c) managing competing access by team members: storage in RDB solves this type of problems using attributes; 3. Monitoring users: this is obtained either via implicit data processing guides or through explicit tools such as logs for monitoring of operations. Conditions for implementing the module and current developments ERETES is a workspace for the national accounting team; its implementation involves a computer environment and precise know how for the users. It is an ?open? module which assumes that the basic concepts of national accounts are perfectly assimilated. e version presented during the workshop - ERETES - 3.3.4 - now covers employment and the informal sector through the use of production modes. Following develop- ments are scheduled for the end of 2011: Atelier sur le Module ERETES, Addis-Abeba 4-8 avril 2011 G?rard Osbert et Steve Gui-Diby, CAS Contexte et historique Il s?agissait de pr?senter ce logiciel de comptabilit? nationale ? l??quipe du Centre Africiane pour la Statistique (CAS) de la Commission Economique des Nations Unies pour l?Afrique (CEA) ainsi qu?aux fonctionnaires du Minist?re des Financ- es et du D?veloppement ?conomique ?thiopien, en charge dans ce pays des comptes nationaux. Cet atelier de 5 jours a r?uni une douzaine de statisticiens et s?est principalement focalis? sur les aspects informatiques du logiciel. ERETES ? ? Equilibre Ressources ? Emplois et Tableau En- tres ? Sorties ? - a ?t? d?velopp? par le Minist?re de la Coo- p?ration et l?Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (INSEE) et sa 1?re version op?rationnelle rendue disponible en 1997. L??quipe de d?veloppement ?tait dirig?e par Michel S?ruzier et bas?e au Laboratoire de Re- cherche CREPFI de Lyon. Le logiciel a rapidement ?t? dius? en Afrique francophone via Afristat, puis en Am?rique latine ; sa gestion est pass?e du Centre Europ?en de Formation des Statisticiens Econo- mistes des pays en voie de d?veloppement (CESD) commu- nautaire ? Eurostat ; ERETES est maintenant traduit en qua- tre langues (Fran?ais, Anglais, Espagnol, Portugais) et est utilis? par une trentaine de pays dont un seul anglophone ? le Ghana. L?id?e ?tait donc de solliciter Eurostat pour envisager la dif- fusion de cet outil dans une douzaine de pays africains an- glophones avec comme argument les 20 pays d?Afristat d?j? ?quip?s, avant de le g?n?raliser ? tout le continent dans un souci d?harmonisation facilitant - entre autres - le PCI (Pro- gramme de comparaison internationale). Contenu et organisation du module ERETES couvre aujourd?hui le noyau dur de la comptabilit? nationale, ? savoir les comptes de ux ; c?est un outil puis- sant d?aide ? la confection des comptes au sein d?une ?quipe ? laquelle il propose une organisation rigoureuse et pr?cise, en : ? reliant les t?ches analytiques et les synth?ses via des arbi- trages explicites, dans le cadre d?un travail en r?seau ? enchainant syst?matiquement les s?quences de calcul apr?s validation des r?sultats interm?diaires et repartage des donn?es en vue de l??tape suivante. ERETES est param?trable an de s?adapter aux di?rents niveaux de sophistication des syst?mes nationaux (dont les nomenclatures d?op?ration), et aux donn?es disponibles, dans le respect des normes du SCN-1993 et bient?t du SCN- 2008. ? Updating classifications to meet the pre-requisites of the 2008 SNA; ? designing a device for automated studies of accounts se- ries; ? Proposing a lightened version for the output of prelimi- nary accounts. Eurostat oers ERETES and PROGRESS executable support free of charge; however, the full implementation implies im- portant training eorts (to be paid) spread over two years ? the required time to develop the base year accounts and those for the current year. However, the production of sub- sequent years takes less than 3 months once data are made available. is meeting has permitted also permitted to see that the soware could have application in the conduction of the International Comparison Program (ICP). erefore, it has been proposed to analyse this possibility during the Training of Trainers Seminar organized by ECA and the ICP Global Oce of the World Bank from the 16 to 20 May 2011 in Ad- dis Ababa, Ethiopia. q iv. StAtiSticAl cApAcity BuilDing / WorkShopS - renForcement DeS cApAcit?S StAtiStiqueS / AtelierS Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 27 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in Le module ERETES est un triple syst?me qui permet d?accompagner l??quipe de comptabilit? nationale, a la fois sys- t?me expert (plus d?un millier d?hyper-annotations sur simple clic) et aide ? la prise de d?cision ; il comprend une fonction de stockage, un principe de traitement et une organisation : 1. Un stockage des informations en base de donn?es relation- nelle (BdEr) : le c?ur du module est constitu? de cette BdEr d?velopp?e sous PROGRESS-Version-9, accueillant toute les donn?es n?cessaires ? l??tablissement des comptes de l?ann?e de base et de l?ann?e courante ; en plus des informations ?conomiques, notons que des donn?es en volume et sur l?emploi sont ?galement stock?es (23 attributs par donn?e). 2. Une d?marche et des outils de manipulation des donn?es : on peut d?nombrer trois types d?outils : a) chargement des sources dans la base de donn?es et exporta- tion des r?sultats a tous les stades d??laboration: ces op?rations utilisent Excel exclusivement ; b) consultation et ajustement des informations dans la BdEr : la d?marche est de type it?ratif et s?eectue en 3 phases : s?lec- tion, analyse, qualication ; c) acc?s concurrents par les membres de l??quipe et gestion des conits : le stockage en BdDr r?sout ce type de probl?mes sur la base des attributs. 3. Le pilotage des utilisateurs : il s?eectue soit via les guides im- plicites des traitements de donn?es soit via des outils explicites comme les tableaux de bord de suivi des op?rations. Conditions de mise en ?uvre du module et d?veloppements en cours ERETES constitue un espace de travail pour l??quipe de compta- bles nationaux ; sa mise en ?uvre suppose un environnement informatique et la comp?tence des utilisateurs. Il s?agit d?un module ? ouvert ? qui suppose que les concepts de base de la comptabilit? nationale soient parfaitement assimil?s. La version pr?sent?e au cours de l?atelier - ERETES-3.3.4 - couvre aujourd?hui l?emploi et le secteur informel via une analyse en mode de production ; les d?veloppements du compte satellite du secteur informel et du bilan de l?emploi s?av?rent donc possibles. Enn, il est pr?vu pour la n 2011 : la mise ? jour des nomenclatures pour satisfaire aux ? pr?-requis du SCN-2008 ; un dispositif d??tudes automatis?es des s?ries de ? comptes ; une version all?g?e permettant la sortie des comtes ? provisoires. Eurostat propose ERETES et son support ex?cutable PROG- RESS gratuitement ; cependant, la mise en ?uvre compl?te suppose un eort cons?quent de formation (payante) ?tal? sur deux ans - d?lai n?cessaire pour d?velopper les comptes de l?ann?e de base et ceux de l?ann?e courante. Par contre, la production des ann?es ult?rieures ne prend plus que 3 mois une fois les donn?es disponibles. Cette r?union a aussi permis de constater que le logiciel pouvait avoir des utilisations dans le cadre du Programme de Comparaison Internationale (PCI). A cet eet, il a ?t? propos? d?analyser cette possibilit? au cours du s?minaire de formation des formateurs organis? par la CEA et le Bureau Mondial PCI de la Banque Mondiale du 16 au 20 Mai 2011 ? Addis-Abeba en Ethiopie. q iv. StAtiSticAl cApAcity BuilDing / WorkShopS - renForcement DeS cApAcit?S StAtiStiqueS / AtelierS 28 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS e Repositioned African Centre for Statistics: A Critical Ingredient to Meeting the Statistical Challenges of the 21st Century in Africa Dimitri Sanga, ACS As part of the exercise to reposition the United Nations Eco- nomic Commission for Africa (ECA) to serve Africa better, statistics and statistical capacity were identied, together with knowledge management, as special programme pri- orities . Accordingly, and in line with the recommendations from a variety of sources including the African Conference of Ministers of Finance, Planning, and Economic Devel- opment, the Africa Symposia on Statistical Development (ASSD), and the Forum on African Statistical Development (FASDEV), the African Centre for Statistics (ACS) was es- tablished in August 2006 to, inter alia: Promote, coordinate and advocate for statistical capacity development in Africa; build a data hub at ECA for the provision of development data on Africa; promote the production and use of basic eco- nomic statistics and the Systems of National Accounts1993 and 2008; establish and implement a regional programme for population and housing censuses; support statistical training; strengthen civil registration and vital statistics systems in Africa; strengthen household surveys capabili- ties in Africa; coordinate peer learning with regard to sta- tistical methods; support Regional Economic Communities (RECs) on regional statistics and their statistical capacity building eorts; support member states through training and knowledge transfer to build capacity and implement the National Statistical System (NSS); support ECA?s own re- search and policy analysis: and provide technical assistance on a need basis to African member states and institutions. e latest ECA Business Plan (2010-2012), details the Commission?s strategic and business plan on statistics and statistical development around the need for ?Bet- ter Statistics for Better Policies and Development Out- comes.? e ACS? Plan presents an analysis of the cur- rent status of statistics in Africa, the Centre?s strategic Organigramme of the African Centre for Statistics Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 29 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in direction, statistical programme and implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting mechanisms. e reestablishment of the statistical function at ECA was meant to meet two critical challenges: to re-establish ECA?s credibility in the coordination of statistical development in Africa and to manage expectations of stakeholders (coun- tries, Sub regional Organizations (SROs), RECs and devel- opment partners). Recent developments in fostering the sta- tistical function at ECA are a testimony to the fact that the ACS is now well positioned to meet the challenges facing African stakeholders in statistical capacity building in sup- port of their development eorts. One of the clear manifes- tations of this positioning which is critical to the success of the Centre?s work programme is the scaling up of its human resources. Following an intensive advocacy campaign aimed at fully stang the ACS to enable it meet the expectations of African stakeholders, the latter is now fully equipped as the posts and required eorts to ll them have been completed. Presented below is the organisation of the ACS as far as hu- man resources are concerned. With more or less the full sta complement in place (two posts are under processing), the Centre is organized into three sections and a data management function, all en- dowed with a critical mass of relevant statisticians with a good skill mix. e current stang situation of the Cen- tre consists of 26 regular sta including 13 professional level posts and 13 statistical assistants and support posts. Main Functions at the ACS e Director of the ACS (D1 post) provides direction and guidance to the preparation and implementation of the work of the Division. He formulates the work programme of the Division, particularly determining priorities, identi- fying implementation modalities, and allocating resources accordingly, in order to ensure the attainment of results. e Director leads and oversees the preparation of divisional in- puts to proposed programme budgets that are results-based; ensures that all the outputs produced by the Division comply with relevant mandates; maintains high quality standards; undertakes or oversees the assignment of tasks in the Divi- sion and monitors and evaluates programme performance; leads self-evaluation of major programme activities and out- puts of the Division; directs and oversees the performance appraisal of sta; oversees the selection of sta for vacan- cies in the Division, particularly by providing guidance and oversight to the interviewing and evaluation process; guides sta development activities, especially through dening training priorities; and fosters teamwork and communica- tion within the Division and across the Divisions in ECA. e Director also provides substantive expertise to meetings and consultation; and planning and chairing internal sub- stantive discussions and seminars. He acts as the adviser to the ECA Executive Secretary on issues pertaining to statis- tics and statistical development. e three Chiefs of Sections (P5 posts) lead and supervise the work of the sections on (i) Economic Statistics and Na- tional Accounts (ii) Demographic and Social Statistics, and (iii) Statistical Development. e fourth P5 coordinates and oversees the work of ACS in the area of data management. e Chiefs of Sections represent ECA at international, re- gional, sub-regional, and inter-agency meetings, workshops seminars and experts group meetings dealing with their respective areas; oversee the work of ACS dealing with the development of methodologies and standards in their re- spective areas; initiate, plan and direct the production of manuals, handbooks and other publications; ensure the smooth implementation of the work programme in their thematic areas by providing direction, management and guidance to sta under their supervision; manage perfor- mance and encourage sta development as well as allocate resources eectively; and contribute to the achievement of ECA?s budgetary and human resources management ob- jectives. ey also advise senior management of ECA and partner organizations on trends and developments in statis- tical methodologies in order to analyze situations and pos- sible interventions; coordinate closely with other partners in their respective elds to dene priority statistical needs of African economies and arrange technical assistance and nancing as appropriate. e Data Management Coordinator aims at enhancing sta- tistical information and geographic data management of ECA member States and partners with special emphasis on the use of statistical and geographic data and information for evidence-based decision-making and incorporation of geospatial technologies into all statistical processes. e P4 posts contribute to the data collection process, li- aising with National Statistical Oces (NSOs) and Central Banks, and relevant international and regional organiza- tions? custodians of data. ey also conduct rigorous data analysis, including statistical processing techniques with statistical packages. ey assist with the provision of data requirements for ECA publications and for meeting the de- mand of external users. ey contribute to increasing the capabilities of NSOs to design and conduct statistical op- erations, censuses and surveys for the production of har- monized and comparable statistics. ey carry out rigorous methodological work and development of manuals for the provision of technical assistance and training to countries, review the quality of data collected, processing and harmo- nizing the data, ensure the compliance of data with inter- national standards; formulate sound statistical techniques for the conduct of censuses and surveys and for the better use of administrative data; collaborate with experts in the iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS 30 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 development community; prepare for and participate in in- ter-agency consultations, meetings, and conferences related to statistical capacity building and development. ey also serve as leaders of the coordination and implementation of the Reference Regional Strategic Framework for Statistical Capacity building in Africa (RRSF) and National Strategies for the Development of Statistics (NSDS), and provide sup- port to Statistical Training Centres (STCs) within the train- ing program for Africa. e P3 and P2 posts contribute to collecting data and dra- ing reports; organizing and servicing of the sessions of the Statistical Commission for Africa (StatCom-Africa) and ex- pert group meetings, seminars and workshops; organizing special events that contribute to the overall work of the sub- programme; preparing statistical materials, reports, newslet- ters and journals; and preparing speeches and other inputs for presentations. ese posts also contribute to the develop- ment and maintenance of the various databases, among them databases on economic statistics, demographic statistics and MDGs indicators. ey participate in the development of websites and online resources and serve as network manag- ers for the African Statistical Knowledge Networks (ASKN). eir functions also include maintaining a database of ex- perts and prole of National statistical Oces; reviewing and processing data; ensuring the data entry and migration in the statistical databases and formatting of the statistical yearbook; as well as participating in the servicing of inter- governmental conferences, workshops and meetings. e 13 local posts provide research, secretarial, and admin- istrative support to the work of the Division. e pool of six Senior Statistical Assistants and one Information System As- sistant respond to the data needs emerging from the com- pilation of yearbooks, databases, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the New Partnership for Africa?s Develop- ment (NEPAD) and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). ey also assemble information, compile graphs and tables and provide assistance for recurrent and non- recurrent publications of ECA. An administrative assistant carries out broad administra- tive support functions such as administration of personnel, ordering oce supplies, and budgetary and travel related matters. A Programme Assistant assists the Director in of- ce duties related to the coordination of programme imple- mentation by maintaining records of nancial resources of the Division and tracking resource usage, and collecting and preparing information for reporting on programme imple- mentation and resource utilization. One Senior Sta Assis- tant assists in administrative support and manages the daily operations of the Director?s oce, including the ow of in- formation. Sta Assistants provide secretarial, clerical and administrative support to the thematic sections, including organization of meetings and other events. e stang of dierent sections and functions of the ACS are presented below. e O ce of the Director e Oce of the Director provides direction and guidance to the preparation and implementation of the work of the Division. It is currently made of the following sta: 1. Dr. Dimitri Sanga: Director 2. Ms. Awa iongane: Senior Regional Adviser on Organi- zation and Management of Statistical Systems 3. Ms. Meselu Seyoum: Senior Sta Assistant 4. Ms. Rebecca Work Emmanuel: Programme Assistant 5. Ms. Kietsehai Berhanu : Sta Assistant 6. Administrative Assistant: Vacant e Demographic and Social Statistics Section is Section covers areas such as population and housing censuses, household surveys, migration, labor, education, health, income and consumption, social protection, human settlements and housing, justice and crime, culture, political and other community activities, time use, employment sta- tistics, MDGs indicators, gender statistics, governance etc. To properly deliver on the above, the work in this area is led by the following sta: 1. Mr. Raj Gautam Mitra : Chief of Section 2. Ms. Fatouma Sissoko: Gender Statistics Specialist 3. Mr. Oumar Sarr: Social Statistician 4. Mr. Issoufou Seidou: Social Statistician 5. Mr. Gulilat Tesfaye : Statistics Assistant 6. Mr. Michael Girma : Statistics Assistant 7. Ms. Emnet Tezera : Sta Assistant e Economic Statistics and National Accounts Section is Section deals with macroeconomic statistics, economic accounts, business statistics, sectoral statistics (agriculture, forestry, sheries, energy, mining, manufacturing, construc- tion, transport, tourism etc.), government nance, scal and public sector statistics, international trade and bal- ance of payments, prices, labour cost, science and technol- ogy, environment accounting etc. e emphasis here is put on ensuring that countries collect basic economic statistics and implement the System of National Accounts. is Sec- tion is also in charge of the implementation of the national accounts component of the International Comparison Pro- gramme (ICP) for the African region in close collaboration with the lead agency that is the African Development Bank. e Section is made of the following sta: iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 31 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in 1. Mr. Xiaoning Gong: Chief of Section 2. Mr. Andry Andriantseheno: Statistician 3. Mr. Negussie Gorfe: Statistician 4. Mr. Steve Gui-Diby: Associate Statistician 5. Mr. Elias Fisseha: Statistics Assistant 6. Mr. Tesfaye belay: Statistics Assistant 7. Ms. Netsanet Abebe: Sta Assistant e Statistical Development Section is Section deals with all cross cutting issues including statistical organization, capacity building, statistical plan- ning and management including support to member states on the design and implementation of NSDSs, statistical co- ordination, advocacy, monitoring of Strategic Frameworks and strategies (e.g. RRSF, Strategy for the Harmonization of Statistics in Africa (SHaSA)), partnerships, training, method- ological research, standardization, development and adapta- tion of manuals and handbooks. e following sta led the work in this area: 1. Prof. Ayenew Ejigou: Acting Chief of Section 2. Mr. Ayenika Godheart: Statistician 3. Mr. Molla Hunegnaw: Statistician 4. Mr. Kidus Mengistu: Statistics Assistant 5. Mr. Tewabe Mihret, Statistics Assistant 6. Ms. Tiguest Berhanu: Sta Assistant e Data Management Function is cross cutting function ensures that the capacities of member states are build in data management and database development. It includes the production of yearbooks and simi- lar compendia, setting up mechanisms for data collection, the use of geographic information systems (GIS) in statistical pro- cesses, data warehousing etc. It is lead by following sta, while beneting from all subject matters specialists support: 1. Dr. Chukwudozie Ezigbalike: Data Management Coordina- tor 2. Information System Assistant: Vacant Other Sta In addition to the above-mentioned regular stang situation, the ACS is the home to a number of sta working with the above sections. ese include fellows, interns, consultants, sta sec- onded from member states and other regional and international partners. Currently, the ACS is hosting the following sta: 1. Genene Bizuneh: Regional Adviser on Civil registration and Vital Statistics (AfDB funded, ECA-based) 2. Mr. Gerard Osbert: Regional Adviser on the Informal Sector Measurement (Seconded by the French Government) 3. Mr. Ibrahim Mamma: Assistant to the AGROST Secretariat (Seconded by the GIZ) 4. Ms. Winta Bisrat: Information System Assistant 5. Mr. Getaneh Woldeyesus: Consultant 6. Ms. Gloria Kogo: Intern Details on the academic background and experience of sta members can be found on the ACS website under ?Who is who at ACS? at: http://ecastats.uneca.org/acsweb/Home/Whoiswho/ tabid/307/language/en/Default.aspx. q iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS 32 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS Livestock data issues in sub-Saharan Africa e livestock sector contributes between 20% and 50% to agricultural valued added in African countries, with a conti- nental average of 26%. Livestock is expected to become the largest contributor to agriculture as economic development progresses because of growing demand for high-value food items, including meat and dairy products (in industrialized economies, the livestock sector accounts for about half of ag- ricultural GDP). To give some gures, over the period 1990 to 2007 meat and milk consumption in Africa increased by 2.9% and 3.0% per year (+5,861 MT and +14,962 MT) re- spectively, and similar rates of growth are anticipated in the next decades for all meat and dairy products (FAOSTAT, 2011; OECD-FAO, 2009). e current trends in the demand for animal food represent an unprecedented opportunity for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, as livestock are one of the most com- mon assets amongst poor rural households in Africa. e most recent publicly available continental data, produced by ILRI in 2002 through overlaying population and poverty data on livestock production systems, indicate that over 53% of the population of sub-Saharan Africa keeps some livestock: i.e. one out of every two persons in the continent are partly dependent on livestock for their livelihood (ILRI, 2002). Public and private sector investments are needed to assist small livestock producers in tapping into the growing market for animal-sourced foods but, as noted by the Africa Union?s Inter African Bureau from Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), there is ?inadequate data to demonstrate quantitatively the role of animal resources in African economies, and to use such data to create broad awareness among policy-makers and investors? (AU-IBAR, 2010). At the second pan-African/ AU Conference of the Ministries responsible for livestock sector development, held in Uganda in May 2010, the Minis- tries ?urge Member States to enhance capacity for timely col- lection, analysis and sharing of quality data to guide policy, strategy and investment programmes? (AU, 2010). Improving the quantity and quality of livestock data requires rst of all an appreciation of the current status of livestock data in Africa and, in particular, of gaps between the demand and supply of such data. Only users of livestock data know what information they need, and in what formats, to enable eective formulation of public and private sector investments in the livestock sector and associated industries such as the food industry and the livestock service sector. A survey on livestock data issues and concerns e 12th Annual Inter-Agency Livestock Donor (IADG) Meeting was held at AU-IBAR?s headquarters in May 2011. Donors, NGOs, international organizations, university / re- search institutions and some private companies and consul- tants participated in the meeting, for which the overall goal was ?to increase awareness of contemporary issues facing poor livestock farmers/pastoralists in Africa, highlight some ma- jor recent and foreseen research initiatives, agree on priority research issues, promote collaboration between donors and among research implementers and generally generate more support for livestock research and development in Africa?. One session of the meeting focused on ?Data management and information sharing?, and presentations were given on is- sues related to data availability and information use (by IFAD and Mediae Trust), and on on-going eorts to improve the systems of livestock data collection, analysis and dissemina- tion (by AU-IBAR and the Livestock Data Innovation Project (see Box 1)). e Livestock Data Innovation Project took the opportunity to administer a survey on livestock data issues and concerns to the 60 or so participants in the 12th IADG meeting. e objective of the survey was to identify the concerns of users of livestock-related data / indicators, including what types of data they use and where the strengths and gaps in the avail- able livestock data exist. Overall, whilst the availability and quality of livestock data / indicators in Africa is rated as ?very important? by 79% of respondents, more than 90% of them ?don?t agree? that available livestock data are sucient for their livestock-related activities. Use of livestock data Participants in the survey were asked to rank their four top uses of livestock data / indicators: project formulation and implementation is the most frequent use of livestock-relat- ed data (71% of respondents), followed by monitoring and evaluation (59%), and research & analysis and programme formulation and implementation (56% each). Livestock stakeholders use primarily regional and national level data, as well as community and household level data. District level data are the least used, though they are critical to design projects, programmes and policies in the livestock sector. As one common example, unless information is avail- able on the distribution of cattle across a country?s districts, it is dicult to plan and implement a vaccination campaign. Over 50% of the respondents use livestock data / indicators either on a daily or a weekly basis, while another 21% use them at least once a month. Overall, 84% of respondents use livestock data on a regular basis, and only 6% of them use it just occasionally. Supply and Demand for Livestock Data in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from a Stakeholder Survey Ugo Pica-Ciamarra, FAO and Derek Baker, ILRI Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 33 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in Sources of livestock data Ad hoc reports, papers and articles as well as international databases, such as FAOSTAT or the World Animal Health In- formation System of World Organization for Animal Health (OiE), are the major sources of livestock data / indicators, being used by 89% and 85% of respondents. Data provided by countries? Ministry of Agriculture and/ or Livestock and by their National Statistical Oce, are also widely used, by 67% and 53% of the respondents respectively. However, only 18% and 6% of the respondents indicate the Ministry of Agriculture and/or Livestock and the Statistical Oce as their primary source of data. is highlights issues in livestock data communication and dissemination at na- tional level, as international databases ? which are the rst source of data for the majority of respondents ? are popu- lated with data collected by national authorities. Gaps between demand and supply of livestock data Survey responses indicate a consistent gap between the use of / demand for livestock data and their supply or availability. Production and productivity data are most in demand (rated as most useful to their work by over 68% and 59% of respon- dents respectively), followed by livestock inventories and in- put data (both >40%). Between 20% and 35% of stake-holders use animal disease, marketing, consumption, price, natural resource-related and trade data the most, while only 12% state that breed data are ?most useful? to their work (g.1). However, the ?most useful? data/indicators for stakeholders are amongst those not always available and, when available, rarely they are of good quality. is highlights a major gap between the demand and supply of livestock-related data that was widely discussed at the meeting and is commonly hear beyond its connes. Indeed, graph 2 shows the proportion of stakeholders that consider relevant livestock data /indicator as: (1) not available or of poor quality (lightest segment of the bars); (2) available but of low quality; (3) available and good (darkest segments). Marketing, input, natural resource-related and consump- tion data / indicators are considered by most data users (> 70%) as unavailable or, when available, to be of low quality. Conversely, trade and disease data are those most frequently available and with less quality problems. Overall, livestock data / indicators are considered as ?not available / poor? by over 54% of respondents, and ?available but of low quality? by another 33%. Only 13% of respondents consider that, on average, good data / indicators are avail- able. Lessons learnt and the way forward e results of the livestock data survey conducted by the Livestock Data Innovation Project are not necessarily repre- sentative of all stakeholders? data concerns, as they are based on a small and non-random sample. However, they support the idea that, whilst livestock data / indicators are essential for the largest majority of stakeholders, rarely are the avail- able data / indicators sucient for the purposes of invest- ment, development and research. e Livestock Data Innovation Project, in partnership with AU-IBAR, has been facilitating cooperation and collabora- tion between major livestock data users and suppliers ? in Box 1. e Livestock in Africa: Improving Data for Better Policies Project e Livestock in Africa: Improving Data for Better Policies Project, or Livestock Data Innovation in Africa Project, is a three-year (2010-2012) initiative sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and jointly implemented by the FAO, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the World Bank, in partnership with AU-IBAR. In col- laboration with national stakeholders in Niger, Uganda and Tanzania, the Project designs and experiments with methods of livestock data analysis and collection, its ultimate objective being to support the identication and collection of key livestock-related data and statistics, which guide investments in the livestock sector in sub-Saharan Africa that improve the wellbeing of the poor. While the Livestock Data Innovation Projects is piloting data-related activities in three sub-Saharan African countries, it will produce two major outputs of use for all sub-Saharan African countries: A ?Sourcebook on Livestock Data in Africa?, which is a guide towards collecting and analyzing livestock-related and ? poverty data with the objective of better understanding and responding to the key developmental questions facing livestock sectors. An advocacy document ?Making the Case for Investing in Livestock in Africa? which provides empirical evidence on ? the role of livestock in the lives and livelihoods of the poor and recommends strategies to enhance the contribution of livestock to poverty reduction and economic growth. For more information, visit www.africalivestockdata.org iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS 34 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 35 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in Developing young statisticians in Rwanda Muhammed Semakula, SBCR Ltd e regional technical advisor of the UNFPA East and South African countries Dr. Mady Biaye this month spared a moment on May 07, 2011 and visited young statisticians in Rwanda. On his visit to a research company; Statistical Based Consultancy and Research (SBCR Ltd) started and run by a group of young statisticians in the country, Mr. Bi- aye who had visited on a friendly schedule discussed with the young statisticians and gave a professional counsel which members of this company believe will help them in shaping their career and future performance of this company. SBCR Ltd was basically initiated by statistician graduates from the National University of Rwanda with an aim to keep track of their eld of study (statistics) and develop an evidence- based culture of decision making in the country. Aer only a few months of operation, the company has managed to conduct remarkable researches and participate in several regional and international conferences. is is quite a great achievement given the infancy of the eld in the country Dr Mady Biaye with Rwandan Young statisticians in front of their o ce, Kigali May 7th,2011. iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS Niger, Tanzania and Uganda ? to contribute to enhancing the quantity / quality of livestock data / indicators available for public and private sector decision-making, consistently with the goals and objectives of the Global Strategy to Im- prove Agricultural and Rural Statistics, endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in February 2010. References AU (2010) Resolutions of the 8th Conference of Ministers ? Responsible for Animal Resources in Africa. Kampala, May 2010. AU-IBAR (2010) Strategic Plan 2010-2014. AU-IBAR, ? Nairobi. FAOSTAT (2011) www.faostat.fao.org. Accessed 31 May ? 2011. OECD-FAO (2009) Agricultural Outlook 2009-2018. ? OECD, Paris and FAO, Rome. q 36 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 because it is only since 2008 that the National University of Rwanda; the only University in the country with a statistics department, started graduating statisticians and currently, only three consecutive promotions have been released. Generally, young statisticians in Rwanda still lack capac- ity building support from the government which to some extent leads to wavering of statisticians to other disci- plines and leaving their career of statistics. Some Institu- tions, both public and private are still not aware of the need for statistics and statisticians hence making it hard to get a job in the eld. It is from that situation that the idea of the SBCR Ltd stemmed and working as a private and inde- pendent company, young statisticians would create jobs for themselves doing researches and publishing them and do- ing consultancy services to institutions that may need such. e journey is however still long because the com- pany being young lacks a nancial backing to do these exercises and also the capacity to cover complex re- searches. A lot still has to be done in capacity build- ing, nancial support and creating a public awareness of the importance of statistics in their daily operations. Even though the challenges are still very high, the progress is also very much promising and we are seeing a future of statistics in the country where every citizen will be aware of the importance of statistics and use statistical information to their benets. We therefore encourage all young statisticians in Africa to join hands together and do what may seem impos- sible. Like the saying goes; two are better than one lets create partnerships and our joint eorts will lead to greater quan- tiable achievements for the future of statistical system. q Zimbabwe Statistics Agency seeks Uganda guidance on autonomy? Alfred Geresom Musamali, Uganda A delegation from the rst Board of Directors of the Zimba- bwe Statistics Agency (Zimstat) in May (this year, 2011) vis- ited the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) to understudy the process of converting from a government department into a semi-autonomous agency. e Statistics Department of Uganda?s Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development was converted into UBOS, a semi- autonomous body, by an Act of Parliament in 1998. Zimstat on the other hand was converted into a semi-autonomous agency by an Act of Parliament in 2007 but an operational Board of Directors only came into eect in February 2010. e Zimstat delegation was led by board member Ms Senel- ani Dorothy Hove-Musekwa, an academic at the Zimbabwe University of Science and Technology (ZUST). It included Zimstat acting Director General Mr Mofat Nyoni AND TWO OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. e other members were Mr Cli Dube (a research economist) and Mr Simon Nyarota from the Zimbabwe Reserve Bank. ?We came out to check whether what we are embarking on is in the right direction,? said Ms Hove-Musekwa, in a meet- ing with the UBOS management team. ?So far we have worked on the new structure but have not yet appointed substantive oce-bearers. We have also tried to re-instate statistical production aer a period of very dif- cult economic times,? she added. Areas Zimstat got to learn about included a basic outline of how the initial UBOS board of directors guided the de- partment in the process of smoothly transforming into the Bureau. UBOS outlined the structure and functions of the initial Board of Directors and their achievements. At the expiry of the rst strategic plan (2002-2007), UBOS drew up the ve year (2006/07-2011/12) Plan for National Statis- tical Development (PNSD) that guided operations to date. Zimbabwe has also with support from UBOS drawn up a 2011-2015 National Strategy for the Development of Statis- tics (NSDS) to guide their operations. During discussions UBOS outlined the current organi- sational structure of Management and Sta, hinting that since the structure has been in place for some time now and the plan is due to expire next nancial year, certain chal- iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS Zimstat Acting Director General, Mofat Nyoni Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 37 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS lenges have been encountered which they hope to address through a functional review currently being conducted. e Ugandan team explained how they mobilised funding and pointed out that one of the key factors in their success was the eort of the initial Board to enlist government support and funding for statistical production and development as well as for improvement of the working environment by constructing modern oce space (Statistics House) for sta. UBOS pointed out the need for Zimstat to devise a type of salary structure that attracts and retains the very best work- ers. Zimstat will be studying the UBOS salary structure for inspiration. On another note, coincidentally, both the Uganda and the Zimbabwe Population and Housing censuses are due in Au- gust of next year (2012). Zimstat sought to know how UBOS is meeting the challenges of time management and nan- cial constraints. UBOS said so far about three quarters of Uganda?s 112 districts have been mapped and their house- holds listed in preparation for the Census. A district is the immediate local government administrative unit below the central Government of Uganda. Under a district are coun- ties, sub-counties, parishes and villages. In urban areas the city council is the equivalent of a district, the Municipality equates with a county, the town council with a sub-county, and the ward with a parish. Mapping and household list- ing is undertaken to determine the census workload, plan for adequate enumeration materials, plan for the control of census enumeration activities, and prepare for eective dis- semination of the census information. e exercise entails teams of Mapping Assistants moving from village/ward to village/ward to collect geographical information. e Uganda pilot census is scheduled for August this year (2011) and the pilot post-enumeration survey soon aer. For the rst time in Uganda census questionnaires are going to be scanned in order to extract information. e technol- ogy has already been tested and the method found to work but further testing will be done during the pilot census. Zimstat was also enlightened about how the Community In- formation System (CIS) works in Uganda and the challenges that have been faced so far. e CIS facilitates collection, analysis, dissemination and use of data at every adminis- trative level. At the Uganda household level information is collected on demographics, income and nutrition while at community or parish/ward level the information is on ac- cess to water, education, health and other social services. At sub-county/town council level the data is on access to micro-nance and on co-operatives. So far the CIS has been expanded to 40% of the districts but progress is hampered by limited resources such as availability o electric power, computers, and duly appointed sta in some sub-counties. Uganda plans to pilot the use of mobile phones in collecting and transmitting CIS data from sub-counties/town councils to the central server. Five districts (Wakiso, Moroto, Arua, Mbale and Kiruhura) have been chosen for the pilot proj- ect. e Zimstat team visited two of the collaborating Minis- tries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in the National Statistical System (NSS). e two are the Uganda Police Force (UPF) and the Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Indus- try (MTTI). e visiting team was very impressed by this sector approach to collection, analysis, dissemination and use of statistics. Zimstat Board chairperson, Senelani Dorothy Hove- Musekwa Zimstat and UBOS O cials in Kampala q 38 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 Using CensusInfo Technology for Census Dissemination in Africa DevInfo Support Group ?A census is not complete until the information collected is made available to potential users in a form suited to their needs? -- UN Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Revision 2, para. 1.206 Background One of the major lessons learned from the 2000 round of the World Population and Housing Census Programme, during which 57% of Africa?s population was enumerated2, points to the necessity of taking full advantage of the data collected through censuses via appropriate dissemination and analy- sis mechanisms. Census results are typically published in a tabular format - whether in print or on the web ?thereby limiting their use by potential data consumers. Furthermore, many interested data consumers encounter language and/or other data access barriers, such as the data being restricted or only available domestically in print format. For census data to be truly useful for public dialogue, it needs to be easily accessible to the national and international community via the Internet in multiple languages. Potential users need easy, quick access to data in all of their custom- ized disaggregation: by sex, age, geographical sub- levels and time period, for purposes of analysis, comparison and dis- semination. CensusInfo3 is a royalty-free database system that provides a method to organize, store and display data in a uniform format, to facilitate census data sharing across government planning sectors, UN agencies, aid agencies, demographers and academicians. CensusInfo was developed by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in partnership with the United Nations Children?s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and has been adapted from DevInfo database technology. ere are currently sev- eral countries with nationalised adaptations of CensusInfo across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.4 CensusInfo is an integrated desktop and web-enabled tool to assist countries in their census data dissemination. It con- tains simple and user-friendly features that can be used to produce tables, graphs and maps for inclusion in reports, presentations and advocacy materials. Database administra- tors can add their own sets of national, regional and local indicators to their databases. e system also has a data ex- change module for importing census tables from industry- standard statistics soware packages. National Statistics Oces or any other responsible govern- mental department are the prime candidates to create a country-specic CensusInfo application. Once this applica- tion is online or distributed via CD-ROMs, anyone can use CensusInfo to query and retrieve census information. CensusInfo initiatives in Africa As previously shared, dissemination of census results has been one of the weak points of previous rounds of popula- tion and housing censuses. e CensusInfo initiative aims to address this weakness by helping countries disseminate their major census results at all relevant geographical levels. e remainder of this article explores the progress of CensusInfo implementation in four African countries: Malawi, Egypt, e Gambia and Liberia. CensusInfo activities in Malawi Malawi has held a census every decade since 1966 and con- cluded its most recent population and housing census in 2008. e Strategic Plan of the National Statistics Oce of Malawi for 2007-2011 highlights the importance of high quality data and the need for this data ?to be disseminated widely using innovative techniques, so that both those that deliver and receive services can monitor their eectiveness.? In line with this vision, the United Nations Statistics Divi- sion (UNSD) in collaboration with the National Statistics Oce (NSO) of Malawi organized a national CensusInfo technical workshop in Zomba, Malawi from 27 November to 4 December 2010.6 e overall aim of the technical work- shop was to equip the Malawi NSO with capacity to use Cen- susInfo as a platform to disseminate national census data. Specic outcomes included teaching important database administration skills needed to create and maintain a na- tional CensusInfo database with data on global and country- specic indicators disaggregated to the district level, as well as teaching how to use key CensusInfo features to assure data quality. On the nal day of the workshop, participants were guided through a strategic planning session to discuss specic dissemination strategies for a national CensusInfo database. e key output of this workshop was a dra Ma- lawi CensusInfo database, with the nal database and web- enabled version scheduled for release in June 2011. CensusInfo activities in Egypt Egypt was one of the rst countries to carry out a census, with evidence of censuses being carried out in 3340BC. Its rst modern census was undertaken in 1882, and its most recent one took place in 2006 iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 39 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in United Nations Statistics Division 2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme e 2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme was approved by the Statistical Commission at its 36th ses- sion and adopted by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in resolution A/2005/13. ECOSOC recog- nized that population and housing census data are essential for eective development planning and objective decision-mak- ing. In addition, census data are useful for monitoring popula- tion trends and programmes, as well as for evaluating policies. e essential goals of the 2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme1 are: To agree on international principles and recommenda- ? tions to conduct a census To facilitate countries in conducting censuses during the ? period 2005-2014 To assist countries in disseminating census results in a ? timely manner Major activities of the 2010 World Programme include the development of census methodological guidelines, facilitating exchange of experience, and assisting countries in improving their statistical capacity in census taking. For more information, please visit: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/ census2010.htm In response to a request for technical assistance from Egypt?s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAP- MAS), UNSD organized three workshops to train CAPMAS sta in the use of CensusInfo soware from May to October 2010. In cooperation with UNSD experts, CAPMAS developed the Egypt CensusInfo database, which is a country adaptation of CensusInfo. It contains over 90,000 data values from the 2006 census and the 1996 census rounds and is available in Arabic and English languages online at www.censusinfo.capmas.gov. eg/. e data have been organized by CAPMAS to better serve analysts and data consumers. CensusInfo activities in e Gambia e Gambia?s rst complete population and housing census was performed in 1963, and the most recent one was carried out in 2003. e target audiences for census data dissemination in- clude government agencies (especially the policy and planning oces), international donor organizations such as UN agencies, NGOs and civil society. In November 2009 the Gambian Bureau of Statistics (GBOS) nominated a sta member to attend a UNSD CensusInfo work- shop in Maputo, Mozambique. Soon aerward, work began on the creation of a national CensusInfo database for e Gambia. In December 2009 CensusInfo was highlighted during national activities related to the dissemination of the 2003 Population and Housing Census results. Data continues to be entered into the database, with the objective of creating a CensusInfo database that provides standard, accessible and timely benchmark data to partners, planners, policy makers, researchers and the general public, for better planning and advocacy. CensusInfo activities in Liberia Prior to Liberia?s population and housing census of 2008, it had been 24 years since the country had last undertaken a census. Even then, the results of the 1984 census were lost in iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS Fig. 1: CensusInfo application interface Fig. 2: Sample output, CensusInfo Malawi database 40 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 the civil crisis before they could be analyzed and published. Most of Liberia?s data banks were completely destroyed in the domestic conict.8 To capitalize on the availability of new population data and to strengthen its dissemination and use, the Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS), in part- nership with UNSD and UNFPA, organized a CensusInfo training workshop in 2009. More than 30 sta from LISGIS and other line ministries and agencies were taught how to use the CensusInfo soware. Since then, data for 169 indicators have been entered into the CensusInfo Liberia database, and further eorts are underway to link this database to the na- tional Integrated Management Information System (IMIS). Conclusionis article has highlighted the progress of Cen- susInfo implementation in four African countries: Malawi, Egypt, e Gambia and Liberia. Each of these countries has recognized the need for a better method of disseminating their census results and has initiated steps to use CensusInfo to make this data more widely available to a broad spectrum of data consumers. Several other countries have indicated interest in the soware and have contacted UNSD for sup- port. An update on additional countries adopting or using CensusInfo will be provided in subsequent issues of the Newsletter. For more information on these various CensusInfo initia- tives, please contact Yacob Zewoldi, Chief, Demographic Statistics Section, United Nations Statistics Division, at ze- woldi@un.org. To learn more about using CensusInfo to or- ganize, store and disseminate population and housing cen- sus data, please visit the CensusInfo website at http://www. censusinfo.net. References 1. http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/ census/2010_PHC/more.htm 2. http://www.immpact-international.org/uploads/les/ MM_slides_FP.pdf 3. http://www.censusinfo.net/index.html 4. http://www.censusinfo.net/worldwide.html 5. http://www.nso.malawi.net/images/stories/plans/Nation- al_Statistical_Oce_%20SP_%202007_2011.pdf, Page 2 6. http://www.devinfo.org/news_content/news_001_133. html 7. http://www.statssa.gov.za/assd2010/interesting.asp 8. http://www.tlcafrica.com/lisgis/lisgis_census07.htm q iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS Fig. 3: Sample output, CensusInfo Egypt database Fig. 4: Sample output, CensusInfo e Gambia Fig. 5: CensusInfo homepage Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 41 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in e future of the CRVS system in Africa Prof. Ayenew Ejigou, ACSs e uses of civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) sys- tems have been extensively discussed for years: they have been known to be essential and irreplaceable as sources of vital statistics which can then be available every year, but such data from surveys or censuses can come only at fairly long time intervals. As Sanga put it ( 2011), ? A long-term alternative to intercensal estimates is the establishment of civil registration and vital statistics systems. Reliable vital statistics can provide essential input to 42 of the 60 MDG indicators. ? Eective and credible CRVS systems also feed not only legal, administrative and statistical services but may also help to assess the credibility of demographic or related sample sur- veys and population censuses. Problems of CRVS systems in Africa CRVS systems have a checkered history in Africa; very few African countries have managed to make progress to de- liver vital statistics that can be used to advance the cause of development. e problems common to most of them have been the object of the following recommendations of the Workshop on the Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in SADC Region, in 2008, in Blantyre, Malawi. e conclusions and recommendations of that workshop were summarized as: ?the state of the art of both the civil registration and vital statistics in the SADC region, with very few exceptions, points to the need of numerous reme- dial actions??. e Workshop further concluded that Im- provements were needed in almost all areas: political will, the civil registration law and its enforcement, inter-agency coordination, coverage and accessibility of registration of- ces, the civil registration service, public awareness, compli- ance with international standards, and data processing and dissemination. e workshop recommended as follows: National governments need to commit themselves ? toward improving CRVS systems. e legal framework for the civil registration system ? needed to be revisited and improved since it did not oen provide for clarity in the responsibilities of dierent registration agencies, for the statistical function, for inter-agency and national coordination, and for quality assurance throughout the CRVS system. Civil administrative infrastructure was noted as a major ? pre-requisite for the operation of a civil registration system, but it failed to enable accessibility and universal coverage. Registration sta required capacity building.? Public awareness needed to be enhanced.? Regular and eective quality assurance was missing. ? All countries needed to familiarize with UNSD?s ? comprehensive work on international standards for CRVS systems to ensure international compliance. Such recommendations were prompted by the consistently poor performance of CRVS systems during the last 5 de- iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS 42 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 cades. e Table below shows the percentage of population living in countries with complete civil registration (CR) sys- tems , where complete means that at least 90% of vital events are registered by the civil registration system. e way forward Africa needs to catch up, and improve its CRVS systems which have largely evaded extensive improvement eort over the last 50 years. e crucial shortcoming of all past attempts was the failure to marshal the political will of African governments to improve and manage their CRVS systems and use them for ef- fectively launching and monitoring progress in their political, social and economic development agenda. roughout the last 50 years, attempts to develop CRVS sys- tems in Africa had largely failed to recognize the central and critical role of political will in promoting and improving CRVS systems; this is observed in earlier workshop recom- mendations, with only a few exceptions; the recent technical paper of UNICEF (2010) is another important exception. As a result, all past development eort has invariably resorted to seminars, workshops, advisory services, technical support and demonstration projects, but without a demonstrated govern- ment commitment to own, develop and sustain its CRVS sys- tems. All those past activities involved the participation of relatively minor government bureaucrats who had little or no say in en- acting CRVS legislation, in laying down civil administration infrastructures that can also be used for civil registration, or in deciding on budgetary allocations for CRVS systems; they oen did what they were told to do by the Government, but it was the government commitment that was the overriding prerequisite for CRVS development. Today, especially since the 1st Conference of African Ministers responsible for civil registration in August 2010, government commitment appears to be coming. However, it still remains for UNECA, AfDB and AUC, along with UNSD, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO, and others to take advantage of this upcoming promise of government commitment, and team up meaning- fully with Ministers/countries which have demonstrated their commitment to build eective and sustainable CRVS systems by (i) revisiting and updating their CRVS legislation, (ii) lay- ing down a well-coordinated civil administration infrastruc- ture that can also be used for civil registration and goes down to the village level and(iii) allocating adequate budget for the CRVS systems, thereby ensuring full local ownership and en- hancing system sustainability. Development partners can then come in to provide capacity building like technical support and training to enhance opera- tional eciency, but making sure that they do not go too far to develop CRVS systems that always depend on donor support for survival. Providing capacity building and technical assistance with- out a strongly demonstrated government commitment has brought very little value added for decades; it is time to set pre-conditions for technical development support to ensure that member states take full responsibility for the improve- ment and sustainability of their own CRVS systems, and that such systems will not collapse upon the withdrawal of external support. As Linder (1982) and the International Institute for Vital Reg- istration and Statistics (IIVRS) (1983) aptly put it, obstacles to the development of CRVS systems can be classied as (i) intractable, (ii) solvable with additional input, and (iii) easily solvable. Nations that have intractable problems are those that can have solutions only in the process of further economic development; such nations cannot be helped at this time since the pre-conditions for the eective launch of CRVS systems are not there; it is for individual Ministers and their govern- ments to remove the intractable problems rst, and bring their respective nations to the ?easily solvable? stage, or to at least the ?solvable with additional input? stage before development partners can mobilize a meaningful package of assistance through a well-structured and coordinated plan to improve CRVS systems. Padmanabha (1993), who was a UN consultant who evalu- ated a sample of 8 UNFPA-funded country projects during the 1970s-1980s,had also concluded in his report that ? It would be dicult to conclude that civil registration projects have been clear successes ??, and he thereupon initiated this idea of prerequisites, in his nal recommendations, to be satised by countries before developing any technical assistance for any of them . is may be a more promising way to go in the years ahead. References IIVRS(1983). ?Actions for the improvement of CRVS.?, 1. IIVRS Technical paper No. 27, December 1983. Linder, Forrest E. (1982). ? Improving CR systems in de-2. veloping countries? IIVRS Technical paper No. 20. Padmanabha, P.(1993). Review and evaluation of UNF-3. PA-supported projects on CRVS. New York. Sanga, Dimitri (2011). ?e challenges of monitoring and 4. reporting on the Millennium Development Goals in Af- rica by 2015 and beyond?, African Statistical Journal, Vol. 12, 104-118. UNICEF (2010). Strengthening birth registration in Af-5. rica: Opportunities and Partnerships. Technical paper. UNSD (2008). Report on the UN Workshop on the im-6. provement of CRVS in SADC region. ESA/STAT/AC.171/ L.3. December 1-5, 2008. Blantyre, Malawi. q iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 43 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in Disaggregated data for better monitoring and evaluation of development interventions Issoufou Seidou Sanda, ACS Five years before the deadline set in the millennium dec- laration, it is already clear that some of the targets will not be reached by 2015 in many parts of the world. e appar- ent failure of so many development interventions has led the development community to wonder whether we really know what works and what doesn?t work when it comes to implementing projects aiming at reducing poverty and inequalities or ensuring a sustainable growth that benets people in all classes of the society. Are our interventions really making a dierence? We know that an intervention made a dierence if the situation of the beneciaries are bet- ter aer the project than before the project and if we can prove that the dierence is actually the results of the proj- ect implementation and not the consequences of external factors that are not under the control of the project team. Only rigorous impact evaluations can answer such ques- tions. However, event though monitoring and evaluation has became a standard component of development projects, very few of these projects undertake rigorous impact evalu- ations. is situation led a task force set by the Center for Global Development in 2006 to talk about an ?evaluation gap? that had to be lled urgently1. Among the reasons why so few rigorous impact evaluations have been conducted despite the number of projects, the task force mentioned the low incentive that results from the fact that the costs of undertaking such kinds of studies are immediate while the benets will only be enjoyed in the long term. Rigorous impact evaluations are indeed costly. ey require the col- lection of data against which sound statistical tests can be run in order to prove without any doubt that an interven- tion has actually made a dierence in the situation of the beneciaries. As development interventions are conducted in environments that are not totally controlled by the proj- ect managers, it is always necessary to separate the changes in the conditions of the beneciaries that are due to the project and the changes that are due to the many other ex- ternal factors that have been in play simultaneously during the project interventions. is imposes drastic constraints in terms of data collection, monitoring and evaluation plans and project execution plans. at?s why many projects do not conduct rigorous impact evaluations even though the long term benets are obvious: the knowledge acquired from these evaluations will considerably improve the use of funds for projects aiming at social and economic goals. e availability of disaggregated data produced on a regu- lar basis can considerably reduce the cost of evaluations as projects will not have to spend much in order to collect in- formation that is readily available. When the information on various social and economic indicators is produced on a regular basis by the national statistical oce, it is easy for projects to follow the variations in the situation of the beneciaries, before, during and aer the intervention. Fur- thermore, it makes possible to follow the situation of indi- viduals that have not beneted from the project but who have similar characteristics as the beneciaries. Having in- formation on such groups is critical for impact evaluation, because it is the comparison between the beneciaries and the reference group that allow making conclusions about the changes that are due to the intervention. e produc- tion of disaggregated data on a regular basis is therefore a good investment that can contribute to reduce the evalua- tion gap. In addition, as the data will benet many projects, the return on investment is even higher. Disaggregated data will also help improve the targeting of intervention zones, which would help improving the relevance of projects. e production of economic and social data at disaggre- gated level has therefore a critical importance in developing economies. at?s one of the reasons why the African Centre for Statistics is advocating the regular production of good quality social and economic data at dierent levels of disag- gregations in African countries where so many development interventions are ongoing. As part of these undergoing ef- forts, the Centre is implementing a project on strengthening statistical capacities of African countries to meet challenges in the collection, compilation, dissemination, and use of data to address inclusive social and economic development. e project, which has been funded by the United Kingdom De- partment For International Development (DFID), is aiming to analyze current issues and provide guidance to the African statistical systems in the ways to produce reliable and timely disaggregated social data, especially in the health and edu- cation sector. In addition, the project is trying to look at the data need for development projects beyond 2015, recogniz- ing the need for countries to develop indicators that are cus- tomized to their specic monitoring and evaluation needs. As indicated in the project document, in most African countries, the lack of quality data is the result of inad- equate technical and statistical capacity, methodological problems, inadequate statistical coordination mechanisms within core national institutions producing data and be- tween the National Statistical System (NSS) and the inter- national organizations. e project will try to nd the best ways to overcome these challenges in order to enhance the capacity of African national statistical systems to col- lect, compile, estimate and disseminate timely and reli- able social data, especially health and education sector, by various levels of disaggregations such as geography, gender, iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS 1. Center for Global Development (2006) When Will We Ever Learn? Improving Lives through Impact Evaluation. Report of the Evaluation Gap Working Group (http://www.cgdev.org/content/ publications/detail/7973) 44 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 social and ethnic groups and household poverty or wealth percentiles and based on international standards and con- cepts. It is also expected to enhance the capacity of member states in the development of indicators that respond to the development priorities of African countries beyond 2015 and methodologies for their collection and compilation. e project is going to be implemented by the Social and iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS Demographic Statistics Section of the African Centre for Statistics during the second half of the year 2011. is adds to the many eorts undertaken by the African Cen- ter for Statistics in order to strengthen the statistical ca- pacities of member States for better economic manage- ment in the context of the Reference Regional Strategic Framework for Statistical Capacity-building in Africa. q African Statistical Yearbook 2011 Molla Hunegnaw, ACS Background One of the major challenges to successful implementation of the development agenda lies in the ability to measure prog- ress and to respond to data needs emerging from current national, regional and international initiatives aimed at pro- moting economic and social development in the continent. In response to this challenge, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Union Commission (AUC) have over the years been involved in individual eorts to provide users with the required information, among other things, through a number of publications including statisti- cal yearbooks and databases. In September 2007, the three institutions, together with the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), held a re- gional coordination meeting in Tunis to discuss their respec- tive statistical development activities. ese pan-African in- stitutions broadly agreed, amongst other things, on the need to set up a joint collection mechanism of socio-economic data from African countries as well as the development of a common, harmonized database and the production of a joint African Statistical Yearbook (ASYB). e joint collec- tion and sharing of data among the key regional institutions is expected to promote wider use of country data, reduce costs, signicantly improve the quality of data, and lead to better monitoring of development initiatives on the conti- nent, as recommended in the African Charter on Statistics. ASYB 2011, the third series of the joint publication, is an- other major milestone of joint eorts by ECA, AfDB and AUC. ese three institutions have setup a joint data pro- duction mechanism on socioeconomic data on African countries to the production of the statistical yearbook and working towards the development of a common statistical database. is has broken the practices of the past where each regional/sub-regional organization was publishing statistical data on African countries in an inecient way, leading to duplication of eorts, inecient use of scarce re- sources, increased burden on countries and sending dier- ent signals to users involved in tracking development eorts on the continent. Production of the Yearbook ASYB 2011 has just been released at the beginning of this month. e production process of the yearbook involved a series of face-to-face meetings, teleconferences, and email exchanges among the three institutions. Aer a long pro- duction process and the rst dra of the yearbook produced, African countries gathered to validate data presented in the yearbook in Addis Ababa from 20 to 22 March 2011. Aer the validation process, the three institutions incor- porated feedbacks from countries and produced the nal copy. Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 45 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in Presentation of the yearbook e data in this issue of the Yearbook are arranged gener- ally for the years 2002 to 2010 or for the last nine years for which data are available. e Yearbook is published in one volume consisting of two parts: a set of summary tables followed by country proles. e summary tables present selected standardized indicators for all African countries to enable data users make comparisons among countries. e indicators cover various statistical domains such as Social and demographic indicators; Economic statistics; Monetary and nancial statistics; Economic infrastruc- ture and investment climate; and MDGs. Furthermore, the country prole presents indicators grouped into nine statistical domains such as Social and demographic indicators; Economic statistics; Prices; Ag- ricultural production; Mining production; Energy pro- duction; Financial and monetary statistics; External trade and balance of payment; and Tourism and infrastructure. e indicators in this part could be country specic and are not necessarily used for comparison among countries. Economic indicators are also presented in national cur- rencies. A digital copy of the yearbook is available online at http:// ecastats.uneca.org/acsweb/ and limited printed copies are being distributed to partners. q iv. StAtiSticAl Development - SelecteD AreAS - D?veloppement De lA StAtiStique - SujetS choiSiS 46 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 v. FeAtureD nSo - proFil De l?inS Pro l de l?Institut National de la Statsitique (INS) du Niger Structure organisationnelle L?Institut National de la Statistique (INS) est la structure centrale du syst?me statistique nig?rien. Il a ?t? institu?, ? l?instar du conseil National de la Statistique (CNS) dont il assure le secr?tariat, par la loi n? 2004-011 du 30 mars 2004 portant organisation de l?activit? statistique et cr?ant l?INS. L?Institut National de la Statistique assure le suivi de la mise en ?uvre de la strat?gie nationale de d?veloppement de la statistique (SNDS) adopt?e par le gouvernement nig?rien en janvier 2008 et qui couvre la p?riode 2008-2012. L?Institut National de la Statistique (INS) est rattach? Minist?re de des Finances. Etablissement public ? caract?re administratif, il jouit d?une autonomie de gestion. Il est administr? par un Conseil d?Administration g?r? par une Direction G?n?rale. Le Directeur G?n?ral est assist? par un Secr?taire G?n?ral. L?INS comporte au niveau central les structures suivantes : La Direction Administrative et Financi?re (DAF) ;? La Direction de la Coordination et du D?veloppement ? de la Statistique (DCDS); La Direction des Statistiques et des Etudes Economiques ? (DSEE) ; La Direction des Statistiques et des Etudes ? D?mographiques et Sociales (DSEDS) ; La Direction des Enqu?tes et des Recensements (DER) ;? L?Observatoire National de la Pauvret? et du ? D?veloppement Humain Durable (ONAPAD) ; Le Secr?tariat du CNS.? Le Bureau Central de Recensement ;? La Division informatique ;? Le Centre de Formation et de Perfectionnement (CFP) ;? La Cellule de Communication? Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 47 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in v. FeAtureD nSo - proFil De l?inS R?partition des employ?s de l?INS Principales publications 1. Liste des indicateurs ?conomiques et sociaux 48 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 v. FeAtureD nSo - proFil De l?inS 2. Liste des rapports A. Rapports r?guliers A. Rapports occasionnels Loi statistique Loi N?011-2004 du 30 Mars 2004 Bonnes pratiques de l?INS Mise en ?uvre d?une Strat?gie Nationale de ? D?veloppement de la Statistique (SNDS) arrim? au cadre strat?gique de r?duction de la pauvret? ; Existence d?une loi r?cente prenant en compte les ? principes fondamentaux de la statistique ocielle ; Mise en ?uvre d?un calendrier annuel de publication ;? Perfectionnement r?gulier des cadres du Syst?me ? statistique national ; Adoption des principes de la GAR pour l??laboration des ? programmes et rapports d?activit? ; Existence d?un site internet ;? Existence d?un comit? de lecture des publications de ? l?INS ; Implication des partenaires dans le processus de la ? programmation des activit?s ; Bonne collaboration avec les services sectoriels de la ? Statistique. Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 49 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in Obituary Maria Ferreira dos Santos de Oliveira Tribute to the Head of NSO Angola the late Maria Ferreira By Pali Lehohla, Chair StatCom-Africa We sadly came to learn of the passing on of Maria Ferreira, the Director General of Statistics Angola. e passing on of Ma- ria has touched the African Statistics Community sine Angola was one of the countries that generously hosted the African Symposia for Statistical Development (ASSD). In 2008, we converged in Angola where the 4th ASSD was hosted successfully and Maria was our host. In January this year I was pleasantly honoured by the invitation from the Minister of Planning, Hon Anna Diaz, to participate in yet another major thrust on the role of statistics in development planning in Angola. At that stage I was hoping that Maria will in the future be part of the outcome of this major advance that her Minister initiated. An- gola continued to show unwavering support for the ASSD and Hon. Anna Diaz ensured that she leads the team into Rwanda for the second ASSD in 2007, in this context losing a head of statistics is a serious blow. We hope the statistics oce and fraternity in Angola will heal from the passing of Maria. We trust the ministry and Hon Anna Diaz will heal from the passing of her Director-General and continue to have fervent support for statistics in Angola and in Africa. May Ms Maria-Ferreira?s soul rest in peace. vi. neWS AnD eventS - inFormAtionS et ?v?nementS 50 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 vi. neWS AnD eventS - inFormAtionS et ?v?nementS ANNOUNCEMENT JOINT 7th AFRICA SYMPOSIUM ON STATISTICAL DEVELOP- MENT (ASSD) -STATISTICAL COMMISSION FOR AFRICA (STAT- COM-AFRICA III) MEETING e South African Statistician-General and Head of Statistics South Af- rica together with the Director of the African Centre for Statistics at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa announce the 7th ASSD and the StatCom-Africa III meetings. Respectively under the themes ?Improving Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Institutional and Human Infrastructure in Africa? and ?Harmo- nising Statistics in Support of Economic, Monetary and Social Integration in Africa?, the 7th ASSD and StatCom-Africa III meeting will be jointly held in Cape Town, South Africa from 23 to 28 January 2012. ese meet- ings will be preceded by the Forum on Statistical Development in Africa (FASDEV) meeting on 22 January 2012. Enquiries: 7th ASSD ? Secretariat: mayan@statssa.gov.za StatCom-Africa - Secretariat: athiongane@uneca.org Mr Pali Lehohla, Chair, StatCom-Africa and Mr Dimitri Sanga, Director, UNECA (Secretariat, StatCom-Africa) Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 51 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in vi. neWS AnD eventS - inFormAtionS et ?v?nementS 52 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 Heads of National Statistical O ces in Africa / Les Directeurs des Instituts Nationaux de Statistique (INS) en Afrique ACS will appreciate it if it can be kept updated about changes in the leadership of NSOs / Le CAS appr?cierait d??tre tenu informe des change- ments parmi les directeurs d?INS Country/Pays Name/Nom URL Algeria Mounir Khaled BERRAH, Directeur G?n?ral http://www.ons.dz Angola Lukoki Quiboco Artur, Acting Director general Benin Cosme Zinsou VODOUNOU, Directeur g?n?ral http://www.insae.bj, http://www.insae-bj.org Botswana Anna MAJELANTLE, Government Statistician http://www.cso.gov.bw Burkina Faso Bamory OUATTARA, Directeur g?n?ral http://www.insd.bf Burundi M. Nicolas NDAYISHIMIYE, Directeur G?n?ral Cameroon Joseph TEDOU, Directeur G?n?ral http://www.statistics-cameroon.org Cape Verde Antonio Does Reis DUARTE, Pr?sident INE http://www.ine.cv Central African Republic Issen MUSTAPHA, Directeur G?n?ral http://www.stat-centrafrique.com , http://www.minplan-rca.org Chad Ousman Abdoulaye HAGGAR, Directeur g?n?ral http://www.inseed-tchad.org Comoros Mouhidine Kaabi, Directeur National de la Statistique Congo Samuel AMBAPOUR KOSSO, Directeur g?n?ral http://www.cnsee.org D.R. Congo Gr?goire KANKWANDA Ebulelang, Charg? de Mission Cote d?Ivoire Mathieu MELEU, Directeur G?n?ral http://www.ins.ci Djibouti http://www.ministere-nances.dj/statist.htm Egypt Abobakr Mahhmoud EL-GENDY, President http://www.capmas.gov.eg Equatorial Guinea Luis ONDO OBONO, Directeur G?n?ral http://www.dgecnstat-ge.org Eritrea Aynom BERHANE, Acting Head/DG Ethiopia Samia ZAKARIA, Director General http://www.csa.gov.et Gabon Francis ierry TIWINOT, Directeur G?n?ral de la Statistique http://www.stat-gabon.ga Gambia (e) Alieu S.M. S. N?DOW, Statistician General http://www.gambia.gm/Statistics/Statistics.htm Ghana Grace BEDIAKO, Government Statistician Guinea Oumar DIALLO, Directeur http://www.stat-guinee.org Guinea-Bissau Carlos MENDES DA COSTA, Directeur G?n?ral http://www.stat-guinebissau.com Kenya Anthony K. M. KILELE, Director General http://www.cbs.go.ke Lesotho Liengoane Mothoweso LEFOSA, Director http://www.bos.gov.ls Liberia Edward T. LIBERTY, Director General http://www.lisgis.org/ Libya Salem ABU-AISHA, Director-General Madagascar Paul G?rard RAVELOMANANTSOA, Directeur G?n?ral http://www.cite.mg/instat/index.htm Malawi Charles MACHINJILI, Commissioner for Census and Statistics http://www.nso.malawi.net Mali Seydou Moussa TRAORE, Directeur G?n?ral http://www.dnsi.gov.ml Mauritania Mohamed El Moctar Ould Ahmed Sidi, Directeur G?n?ral http://www.ons.mr Mauritius Li Fa Cheung Kai Suet, Acting Director http://ncb.intnet.mu/cso.htm Morocco Mohamed TAAMOUTI, Directeur http://www.hcp.ma Mozambique Jo?o Dias LOUREIRO, President http://www.ine.gov.mz , http://www.ine.gov.mz/Ingles Namibia Fanuel S.M. HANGULA, Government Statistician http://www.npc.gov.na/cbs/index.htm Niger Djibo SAIDOU, Directeur G?n?ral http://www.stat-niger.org/ Nigeria Alhaji R. A. Sanusi, Acting Statistician General http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php Rwanda Diane KARUSISI, Directeur G?n?ral par int?rim http://www.rwandastat.org.rw Sao Tome and Principe Elsa Maria da Costa CARDOSO CASSANDRA, Directrice nacional http://www.ine.st/home.html Senegal Babakar FALL, Directeur G?n?ral http://www.ansd.sn , http://www.ansd.org Seychelles Laura Marie-erese Ahtime, Chief Executive Ocer http://www.nsb.gov.sc/ , http://www.misd.gov.sc/ Sierra Leone Joseph Aruna Lawrence KAMARA, Statistician General http://www.statistics.sl Somalia Nur Ahmed NUR A. WEHELIYE, Director General http://www.moic.somaligov.net/about.html South Africa Pali Jobo LEHOHLA, Statistican General http://www.resbank.co.za, www.statssa.gov.za Sudan Yassin Haj ABDEEN, Director General http://cbs.gov.sd/ Swaziland Amos ZWANE, Acting Directo http://www.gov.sz/home.asp?pid=75 Togo Kokou Yao N?GUESSAN, Directeur G?n?ral http://www.stat-togo.org/ Tunisia Khalifa Ben FEKIH, Directeur g?n?ral http://www.ins.nat.tn Uganda John Baptist MALE-MUKASA, Executive Director http://www.ubos.org United Republic of Tanzania Albina Andrew CHUWA, Director General http://www.nbs.go.tz , www.tanzania.go.tz/statistics.html Zambia John Kalumbi, Director Census and Statistics http://www.zamstats.gov.zm Zimbabwe Moat NYONI, Acting Director http://www.zimstat.co.zw/html/about.html q vi. neWS AnD eventS - inFormAtionS et ?v?nementS Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 53 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in Centre Location Contact person Eastern Africa Statistical Training Centre Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Michael Sindato Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l?Analyse Economique Dakar, Senegal Bocar Toure Ecole nationale de statistique et d??conomie appliqu?e Rabat, Morocco Abdelaziz Maalmi Institut de Formation et de Recherche D?mographiques Yaound?, Cameroon Elisabeth Annan Yao Institut national de statistique et d??conomie appliqu?e Abidjan, C?te d`Ivoire Ko Nguessan Institut Sous-regional de Statistique et d?Economie Appliqu?e Yaound?, Cameroon Leoncio Feliciano Esono Nze Oyana Regional Institute for Population Studies Legon, Ghana Stephan Owusu Kwankya Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics Kampala, Uganda Agnes Ssekiboobo q Country/ Pays Association Contact person Burkina Faso Association des Statisticiens et D?mographes du Burkina Faso Some Nibene Habib Botswana Botswana Statistical Association (BOSA) Anna Majelantle Cameroon Association des Statisticiens du Cameroun Isaac Njiemoun Congo Association des Statisticiens Bolide Ntumba Democratic Republic of the Congo Association des Statisticiens de la R?publique D?mocratique du Congo (ASTACO) Alexis Lukaku Nzinga Equatorial Guinea Association des statistciens Angeles Ngongolo Ethiopia Ethiopian Statistical Association Ayele Menbere Tekleab Gabon Association des Statisticiens du Gabon Jean Nestor Nguema Ghana Ghana Statistical Association Philomena Efua Nyarko Kenya Kenya Statistical Society Leo Odongo Madagascar Association Malgache des Ingenieur Statisticiens Eric Raktomanana Malawi Statistical Association Tobias Chirwa Mali Association de Malienne Statistiuqe Aboumediane Toure Mauritania Association des Statisticiens de Mauritanie Cissoko Mamadou Morocco Association Marocaine des Ing?nieurs Statisticiens (A.M.I.S) Abdelilah Zerrou Niger Association des Statisticiens et D?mographes du Niger Alichina Idrissa Kourgu?ni Nigeria Nigerian Statistical Assoication (NSA) Boniface Oseloka Amobi Rwanda Association Rwandaise des Statisticiens Nzayisenga Canisius Senegal Association S?n?galaise pour la Statistique Amadou Talla Gueye South Africa South African Statistical Association Yoko Chhana Tanzania Tanzania Statistical Association Peter C.T. Mayeye Togo Association des Statisticien et D?mographes Kponton Anani ?odore Tunisia Tunisian Association of Statistics and its Applications Malika Charrad Uganda Uganda Statistical Society Moses Y. Lubaale Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Statistical Association (ZIMSA) Gibson Mandishona q National Statistical Associations in Africa / Les Associations Nationales de Statisticiens en Afrique Statistical Training Centres in Africa / Les Centres Africains de Formation Statistique Statistics Units in Regional Economic Communities (RECs) / Les Unit?s Statistiques des Communaut?s Economiques R?gionales (CER) O ce Location Contact person Common Market for Eastern & Southern Africa (COMESA) Lusaka, Zambia Anthony Walakira Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) Tripoli, Libya East African Community (EAC) Arusha, Tanzania Robert Maate Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) Libreville, Gabon Louis Sylvain Goma Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Abuja, Nigeria Mahamadou Yahaya Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD) Djibouti, Djibouti Southern African Development Community (SADC) Gaborone, Bot- swana Ackim Teudulo Jere Union du Maghreb Arabe (UMA) Rabat, Morocco Habib Boulares q ACS will appreciate it if it can be kept updated about changes in the leadership of National Statistical Associations and Statistical Training Centres. Le CAS appr?cierait d??tre tenu inform? des changements de Direction des Associations Nationales de Statisticiens ou des Centres de Formation Statistique. vi. neWS AnD eventS - inFormAtionS et ?v?nementS 54 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 Upcoming Events / Ev?nements ? venir (July 1 - September 30 2011) Other Events/Autres ?v?nements Date Event/ Ev?nement Organisers/ Organisateurs Location 18-19 August 2011 Improving Statistical Systems Worldwide - Building Capacity (ISI Satellite Conference) ISI Krakow, Poland 21-26 August 2011 58th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) ISI Dublin, Ireland 23-28 January 2012 Joint 7th Africa Symposium on Statistical Development-Statistical Commission for Africa (StatCom-Africa III) meeting ECA Cape Town, South Africa q Date Event / Ev?nement Organisers / Organisateurs Location 27 June - 4 July 2011 ICP coordinators meeting back to back with AGNA meeting AfDB Pretoria, South Africa 4-8 July 2011 Regional Workshop on RRSF and NSDS Review ECA Lusaka, Zambia 22-24 August 2011 (Anglophone) use of geospatial tools to reinforce the combination of geographic and statistical data in development planning and monitoring (StatCom Directive) ECA Kenya, Nairobi August 2011 Expert Group Meeting on Trade Statistics back to back with the Workshop on Intra-African Trade Statistics AUC and ECA TBD 7-9 September 2011 18th Session of the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities CCSA Luxembourg, Luxembourg 14-16 September 2011 Expert Group Meeting on Future Orientation of Geographical Names Programme in Africa ECA TBD 19-23 September 2011 Seminaire sur les comptes nationaux AFRISTAT Cotonou, Benin 26-28 September 2011 (Francophone) use of geospatial tools to reinforce the combination of geographic and statistical data in development planning and monitoring (StatCom Directive) ECA Ile-Ife, Nigeria September 2011 Workshop on the use of Supply and Use Table (SUT) in support of ICP AfDB and ECA TBD vi. neWS AnD eventS - inFormAtionS et ?v?nementS Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 55 A f r ic A n S t A t iS t ic A l n e w S l e t t e r B u l l e t in d ?in f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u e A f r ic A in African Statistical Newsletter Editorial Policy e Newsletter: e African Statistical newsletter aims to supplement the eorts of the African Statistical Journal to provide a platform for sharing knowledge and information about statistical methodologies and their application to solve practical problems in Africa. 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Citation: e editorial board welcomes the further distribution of any material from the newsletter on con- dition that this is cited as follows: is is reproduced from the African Statistics Newsletter (add issue date and number) http://www.uneca.org/statistics/statnews q vi. neWS AnD eventS - inFormAtionS et ?v?nementS 56 A f r iC A n S t A t iS t iC A l n E w S l E t t E r B u l l E t in d ?i n f o r m A t io n S t A t iS t iq u E A f r iC A in Volume 5, Issue 2 June 2011 Volume 5, Num?ro 2 Juin 2011 Bulletin d?information statistique Africain Politique ?ditoriale Le Bulletin : Le Bulletin d?information statistique africain vise ? compl?ter les eorts du Journal statistique africain en fournissant une plateforme pour partager les connaissances et les informations sur les m?thodo- logies statistiques et leurs applications pratiques en Afrique. Il couvre toutes les activit?s et nouvelles d?int?r?t pour la communaut? statistique africaine, depuis le plaidoyer statistique pour le d?veloppement institu- tionnel en passant par le renforcement des capacit?s et l?assistance technique, jusqu?aux activit?s statistiques sp?ciques comme les recensements et les enqu?tes. Client?le cibl?e : Le bulletin est orient? vers la communaut? statistique ? travers toute l?Afrique ainsi que vers les praticiens du d?veloppement marquant un int?r?t pour le d?veloppement de l?Afrique. Fr?quence de parution : Le Bulletin statistique africain est un p?riodique trimestriel ?dit? quatre fois par an. Les parutions s?eectuent en g?n?ral dans un d?lai de deux semaines suivant la n du trimestre. Les contribu- tions doivent ?tre soumises au Centre africain pour la statistique par email (statistics@uneca.org) le 15?me jour du dernier mois pour une publication dans le bulletin du trimestre. Source des articles et des photos : Les articles et photographies publi?s sont ?crits et soumis par des experts pratiquant la statistique en Afrique et dans le reste du monde, int?ress?s par le d?veloppement statistique en Afrique. Tous les articles doivent ?tre conformes aux normes et aux conditions techniques d??dition. G?n?ra- lement, les articles ne doivent pas exc?der 4 pages et repr?senter un int?r?t pour la communaut? statistique. Le comit? de r?daction eectue des corrections mineures mais se r?serve le droit de d?terminer la teneur du bulletin. Langue : Le bulletin est bilingue, anglais - fran?ais. Les articles sont publi?s dans la langue dans laquelle ils sont soumis. Si un article est consid?r? comme ?tant d?un int?r?t particulier pour le continent, nous cher- chons ? l??diter dans les deux langues du bulletin. Accessibilit? : Le bulletin d?information statistique africain est post? sur Internet et ?dit? en copie papier pour une distribution limit?e. 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