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FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATIONOF THE UNITED NATIONS

Through the Global Strategy and CountrySTAT

Improving Agricultural Statistics

www.fao.org/countrystat

ECO 4th HLEGM, Islamabad, Pakistan, 07-08/04/2011

Statistics DivisionFOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF

THE UNITED NATIONS


Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural Statistics

The Global Strategy provides a framework for national and international statistical systems that enables countries to produce and to apply the basic data and information needed to guide decision making in the 21st century.

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3 Pillars of the Global Strategy

• Establishment of a minimum set of core data that countries will collect to meet current and emerging demands

• The integration of agriculture into national statistical systems in order to satisfy the demands of policy makers and other users who rely on comparable data across locations and over time

• Governance and statistical capacity development which will provide the foundation for sustainability of the agricultural statistics systems



CountrySTAT & the Global Strategy

CountrySTAT is directly linked to the second pillar of the Global Strategy which advocates for integrated data management systems which should provide:– Support for the dissemination of official statistics that

would be readily available, clearly idenfied by source and time, and comparable within and across countries

– Provide a framework for the storage of survey results– Support data analysis capabilities as a result of the data

provided



CountrySTAT is a web-based framework for quality food and agriculture statistics...

...at regional, national and subnational levels.

What is CountrySTAT?

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It provides methods, standards, tools and


communications support to institutions.

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facilitated access to

statistics by decision-makers

across thematic areas

such as production,

prices, trade, and

consumption.


the result is...

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ensuring the organization,

harmonization & standardization

of data,

How does CountrySTAT work?


integrating them into a common web platform

The framework strengthens institutional networks,

and communicating results to stakeholders.

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What are the CountrySTAT components?


InstitutionsStrengthen the collaboration among the main

national institutions providing data on food and agriculture

Data

• National statistics

• International standards

• Methodology

IT

• Data management

• Quality control

• Web publishing

Communications

• Visibility

• Stakeholder buy-In

• Awareness at national

and international level

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Through national and regional CountrySTAT projects, FAO forms partnerships with

– statistical offices,– ministries of agriculture,– fisheries, forestry and others.

Who owns CountrySTAT?


and nationally managed.

Each CountrySTAT is nationally owned

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Why do we need CountrySTAT?


Producers• Easy publishing• Standards-based• Training• Cooperation• Capacity building

Users• Quick data access• Standard formats• Web-based• Graphs & Maps• Data feeds

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CountrySTAT Scope

design

collect compile

validate

dissseminateAnalyze



CountrySTAT web site

PX tables databasePX tables database

PX-Publisher

PRIVATE PUBLIC

Authorized users

End users

Tools - two participating applications:



Designed for power and simplicity

• The user needs only:– An internet connection and two items on their

computer:

A web browserSpreadsheets ofstatistical data



...everyone wins.

How does CountrySTAT exchange data?



– Links with institutions– Links with local media– Boosting WWW presence

– Stakeholders– PC-Axis community

How does a CountrySTAT project work?

– HQ, Regional, National– E-learning– Methods, standards,

applications

– Software– Hardware


CommunicationTraining

ConferencesTools

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Who partners with CountrySTAT?

Financial Cooperation

European UnionFAOCooperazione ItalianaArab Organization for Agricultural DevelopmentWorld BankBill & Melinda Gates FoundationFAO Netherlands Partnership ProgrammeUEMOASIDA SwedenDFID UKEast African CommunityAfrican Development Bank

Technical Cooperation

EuroStatStatistics SwedenStatistics DenmarkStatistics FinlandStatistics IcelandFAOOECDBISUNSDUNECEDevInfoOpen Data FoundationWFP-VAMIFPRI


Technical assistanceDonor assistance

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Where is CountrySTAT?


17 Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia

Regional Africa Projects•Union Économique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine (UEMOA) which includes Guinea-Bissau, Niger and Togo•East African Community(EAC) which includes Burundi

AsiaBhutan and Phillipines


come visit us at:

http://countrystat.org


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