astra: an it tool for the assessment for statistical training
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ASTRA: An IT tool for the Assessment for Statistical TRAining. James Whitworth Head, International Statistical Co-operation Eurostat, European Commission International Forum on Monitoring National Development, Beijing, People’s Republic of China 27 – 29 September 2011. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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 [email protected]