Co-ordinating donor efforts

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Co-ordinating donor efforts

• James Whitworth
• Eurostat, European Commission

Third International Roundtable on Managing for
Development Results, Hanoi, February 2007
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Donor co-ordination

• What does Eurostat do?
• EU Advisory Group
• Who?
• Why is it so difficult?
• The way forward

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What does Eurostat do?

• Advocacy for statistics at strategic and
  programming stages (flag NSDS)
• Advisory service on statistical aspects of
  development programmes to EC external relations
  services
• Co-ordination at EU level (Advisory Group),
  contribution to global co-ordination efforts
• Paris 21 Consortium, Steering Committee Bureau,
  MAPS Advisory Board

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EU Advisory Group

• First meeting 19 July 2006
• 11 countries, EFTA, Paris21
• EU joined-up approach to meet the needs for
  statistical capacity building

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Advisory Group First actions

• Links with other co-ordinating efforts
• Identification of needs document
• Database of current and future projects
• Pool of experts
• Exchange experience and best practices

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Advisory Group next steps?

• Second meeting 19 March 2007
• EU strategy for statistical capacity building
  efforts
• Twinning
• Training
• Network of local representatives
• Expand scope to other regions
• New ways of looking at problem

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Donor co-ordination who?

• Paris21
• UN Statistical Commission
• Committee for the Co-ordination of Statistical
  Activities (CCSA)
• UN Regional Commissions
• EU Advisory Group

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Donor co-ordination why difficult?

• Donors often have their own agenda
• Poor communication between headquarters and field
• Hard to identify statistical projects
• A lot of initiatives
• Lack of a focal point in partners

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Co-ordination, co-ordination, co-ordination

• EU Advisory group will try to solve the problem
  for EU donors
• Need better links among multitude of initiatives
• Ex-post co-ordination will fail
• Network of local representatives
• Responsibility of beneficiary partners

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• James Whitworth
• International Statistical Co-operation
• Eurostat, European Commission
• james.whitworth_at_ec.europa.eu
• 352 4301 36857