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ADB / PARIS21 High Level Forumon

Statistical Capacity Building for ASEAN Countries

EDSA Shangri-la Hotel7-9 November 2002

UNFPA’s Support for StatisticalCapacity Building for ASEANCountries

Aphichat ChamratrithirongUNFPA/CST Adviser on Population Census and SurveyData Analysis for East and South-East Asia

ADB/PARIS21 Joint High Level Forum on Statistical Capacity Building forASEAN Countries7-9 November 2002, Manila

UNFPA Strategies:

Evidence-Based Population and Development Strategies

Development of national sex- and geographically-disaggregateddatabase for tracking progress in the achievement of the MDGs,including ICPD and ICPD+5

Result-based management of UNFPA country programme

Work in partnership in data collection and play a leadership rolein supporting government efforts to mobilize resources.

UNFPA and its leadership in:

• Population and Housing Census• Specialized National Surveys, e.g.,

Reproductive Health Survey• Integrated Population and

Development Database

Population and Housing Census

Special technical support may be given for differentstages of the census operation, such as censusplanning, design, conduct, processing, evaluationand gender-sensitive data analysis, disseminationand utilization including population projections.Limited support may also be given for equipmentand supplies necessary to conduct censuses.

Population and Housing Census

Support may be given for the dissemination of keycensus results by supporting reader-friendlypublications, access to census data for, among otherthings, poverty mapping and specialized analysis,and policy dialogue with census data users.

Specialized National Surveys(e.g. Reproductive Health Survey)

Specific support may be given for conducting survey,including on reproductive health and socio-culturaltopics, in sample design, interviewer training, dataprocessing, analysis, dissemination and utilization.

Integrated Population andDevelopment Databases

Support may be given for capacity building in theplanning, design, establishment, maintenance andutilization of national owned, gender-sensitivepopulation and development databases, especiallythose containing indicators for monitoring nationaland international development goals.

Occasional paper of CST Bangkok #9on :

“Strategies for Census Data Analysis,Dissemination and Utilization:Lessons Learned from the East andSouth-East Asian Experience”

Cambodian Officials participated in a 12-day hands-on attachment training on Census and Survey Data Analysis at CST Bangkok, 1999.

Build the Techincal Capacity of CensusAnalysis:

• Assessment of Technical Capacity• Attachment Training (in CST Bangkok)• Selection of Participants (Government

Commitment)• Analysis Workshop (in country)• Pro-active Utilization Strategies• Interaction with Users and Technical

Advisers

UNFPA/PARIS21 Census Task Team Meetings

1 Luxembourg in November 2000 

2 An international symposium on populationcensuses organized by the United Nations StatisticalDivision in New York from 7–10 August 2001

3 South Africa in November 2001, organized byUNFPA and PARIS21

 Ms. Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director,UNFPA:

“………….Indeed UNFPA, working with a number ofpartners, had played a leadership role in supportingcensuses in developing countries and in countriesin transition for over three decades. Apart from itsdirect support at the country level, UNFPA providedregional technical support through a network ofCountry Technical Services Teams (CSTs), andinterregional support through a team of experts atU.N. Statistical Division”.

“…..A lack of census data seriously hamperedplanning activities across a broad range ofsectors in many countries, especially themeasurement of progress towards national andinternational development goals. This wasparticularly true as governments walked along theroad map towards the Millennium DevelopmentGoals, which included putting indicators intoplace and monitoring implementation bypartnerships of national actors. And adequategender-sensitive poverty assessments wererarely possible without the sex-disaggregatedinformation provided by a census”.

Reproductive Health and its linkage toMDGS and PRSP

Although universal access to quality reproductivehealth services is not specifically included in the MDGoals, it is represented by different proxies, as it cutsacross the other goals and targets. For examples, thetarget of universal access to quality RH services by2015 is essential for meeting MD Goals related to childmortality goal, maternal mortality goal, HIV/AIDSgoal and gender goal.

Reproductive Health and its linkage toMDGS and PRSP

As stated in the ICPD POA #37:

“…reproductive health data should be specificallydisaggregated by income and poverty status to identifythe specific health profile and needs of people living inpoverty and as basis for focusing resources andsubsidies on those who need them most”.

Population and Development and itslinkage to PRSP

Although UNFPA is not directly involved in thepreparation of PRSP, it can contribute by supportingresearch studies for evidence-based advocacy forincreased budget allocation on social sector andmobilizing support for the poor.

Thank you