astra: an it tool for the assessment for statistical training

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James WhitworthHead, International Statistical Co-operationEurostat, European Commission

International Forum on Monitoring National Development, International Forum on Monitoring National Development, Beijing, People’s Republic of ChinaBeijing, People’s Republic of China27 – 29 September 201127 – 29 September 2011

ASTRA:

An IT tool for the

Assessment for Statistical TRAining

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ASTRA Objectives (general)

Increase the availability of people who are trained to use, produce and manage statistics by:

1. Integrating training within capacity building actions as part of medium-term statistics strategies, based on NSDSs

2. Targeting proposals for statistical training

3. Identifying how training institutes can sustainably meet the demand for statistics-related training

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What ASTRA can do

ASTRA can analyse demand for statistics training to facilitate development of national training plans that make best use of training / human resources budget.

ASTRA can analyse demand for statistics training providers to enable matching demand with supply.

ASTRA’s outputs are consistent reports.

Hence, ASTRA is useful for preparing a NSDS implementation plan.

Future: putting ASTRA on the Eurostat website for free and presenting the tools in countries & regional organisations.

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Managing the statistical training demand in developing countries:

ASTRA (new tool): Assessment of Statistical Training

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Managing the statistical training demand in developing countries:

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ASTRA pilot implementations

2009: TanzaniaSenegal

2010:South AfricaMaliLiberia

2011:Ethiopia AGROSTMozambiqueParis – CODESA

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Next steps: 2012 - 3

IT: Regular Maintenance and debugging of ASTRA Incorporate comments from users, including corrective

maintenance and project management; Introduce improvements into different modules; Guidance for ASTRA users in a helpdesk.

Practical fieldwork application of the tool, mobilisation of partners through the promotion of ASTRA

Organise national or regional one-week workshops to be held in 6 different countries (4 in 2012 and 2 in 2013);

Analyse and discuss the output of ASTRA; identify the changes needed for the improvement of the tool.

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Thank you

James WhitworthHead, International Statistical Co-operationEurostat, European Commissionjames.whitworth@ec.europa.eu