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Most development statistics are based on primary data collected
by statistical systems of the developing countries. Development
data are used by the governments for monitoring and evaluating
policies, as well as by international agencies to assess effectiveness
of aid and project. Therefore, improvement in the availability
and use of data at the country level is critical to improve
policies that affect the achievement of the MDGs and other
development goals.
Six country case studies were conducted and a summary report
was produced under the PARIS21 task team on Improved Support
to Monitoring Development Goals lead by the World Bank. The
studies identified priority actions at national and international
levels that would improve statistics available for monitoring
and managing development results
and formed a basis for the
Marrakech
Action Plan for Statistics agreed at an international
roundtable discussion in February 2005. Initiatives that this PHRD
project support – improving the availability
and quality of data to monitor progress towards MDGs,
improving systems that provide better
access to data, and improving
countries’ capacity to use data for policy purposes
– are consistent with the recommendations that came out of
these case studies. The six countries were selected from six
regions of the developing world – East Asia and the Pacific,
Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean,
Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan
Africa. Countries were selected based on a number of
criteria including that they are Heavily Indebted Poor
Countries with Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers as their
national strategies for development. Members of the Task
Team included the European Commission, UK Department of
International Development (DFID), UNDP, UN Statistics
Department (UNSD), and the Development Data Group of the
World Bank (acting as Convener).
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