Transcript I/1. Country plans and actions (Cont`d) - ACS

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
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Session 5: Progress Report for Phase I of African Project
on SNA (actions, achievements, challenges)
Katalin Bokor
Economic Statistics and National Accounts Section
African Centre for Statistics
AGNA meeting
12-15 May 2015
Outline of the presentation
• I. Actions and achievements
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Country plans and follow-up actions (Pillar 1)
Capacity building (Pillar 2)
Institutional strengthening (Pillar 3)
Compiling technical documents and practical guidebooks (Pillar 4)
Advocacy (Pillar 5)
Monitoring, evaluation, and reporting (Pillar 6)
• II. Challenges
– Countries’ needs for training, TA and financial assistance
– Challenges and actions to resolve issues
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I/1. Country plans and actions
• As of March 2015, 22 countries reported to have already
formulated country plans
– Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya,
Lesotho, Liberia, Mali, Morocco, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda, South
Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tunisia and Zimbabwe
• 16 countries are currently elaborating country plans
– Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Gabon,
Gambia, Ghana, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Senegal,
Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Togo and Zambia
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Figure 1: Activities that have been incorporated in the national action plans and have
been followed up
Data collection and processing
GDP (P) by industries
ISIC rev4 and CPC rev2
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GDP (P) by institutions
GDP (E)
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Production and generation of income accounts
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SNA boundaries
Included in national action plan
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Sector accounts up to capital accounts
Sector accounts up to financial accounts
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Quarterly GDP
Employment matrix
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SUT
IT tool for compilation
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Follow-up action taken
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I/1. Country plans and actions (Cont’d)
• Most countries have already taken one or more of the following
actions:
– Strengthening the institutional framework and management structure for
national accounts;
– Adhering to international classifications (activities, products, etc.);
– Harmonizing with other statistical systems such as the balance of
payments, public finances, etc.;
– Administering statistical operations including censuses, surveys, studies,
etc.;
– Improving conditions to access different data sources;
– Updating the business register;
– Conducting training for national accountants;
– Changing to a new base year and software for compilation of national
accounts.
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Figure 2: Timeline of transitioning to the 2008 SNA
Period
Number of countries
Percentage (%)
2010-2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
To be decided
Total
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I/1. Country plans and actions (Cont’d)
• Survey on countries’ needs assessment (Dec 2014 – March 2015)
• Survey on partners’ assistance provision (April-May 2015)
Matching demands to supply
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I/2. Capacity building
• AFRISTAT: strategy based to implement the 2008 SNA in its
Member States
– Progressive approach to consolidate knowledge and correct shortfalls
– Six pillars:
» (i) help Member States to migrate with success from the 1993 SNA to the 2008
SNA;
» (ii) reinforce institutional and organizational capacity of national accounts
sections;
» (iii) assist countries to put in place an operational and efficient system to
produce and analyse national accounts;
» (iv) develop an operational system for the publication of national accounts;
» (v) assist and monitor the implementation of the 2008 SNA; and
» (vi) coordinate assistance with other partners.
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I/2. Capacity building
• Training Workshop on the Implementation of the 2008 SNA (2123 January 2014, Nouakchott, Mauritania)
– By ECA SRO-NA and ECA ACS.
– 31 participants from NSOs, Ministries of Planning and Central Banks of 11
francophone African countries.
• Training on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting
(SEEA)
– By ECA in collaboration with GIZ and the United Nations Statistical Division
– (i) an online training over 8 weeks and 5 modules during SeptemberNovember 2014;
– (ii) an on-site workshop on 2-5 February 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
– 20 African countries have participated and completed the online training
course and on-site training workshop.
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I/2. Capacity building
• Seminar on Supply and Use Table (10-14 November 2014 in
Mauritius)
– By IMF AFRITAC South
• Workshop on the preparation of quarterly national accounts (1923 January 2015 in Bamako, Mali)
– By IMF AFRITAC Central, AFRITAC West and AFRISTAT
– National accountants from 9 Member States.
• Seminar on quarterly GDP (16-20 March 2015 in Mauritius)
– By IMF AFRITAC South
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I/3. Institutional strengthening
• ECA launched a “community of practice” on the compilation of
supply and use tables as well as the use of administrative data in
national accounts.
• The purpose is to produce country contributions, in the form of
case studies and sharing country experience for the two technical
documents and practical guidebooks.
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I/4. Compiling technical documents
• Exhaustive survey on the use of administrative data in the
compilation of national accounts carried out among African
countries
– December 2013-January 2014
– 46 responses
• Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on Administrative Data
– By ECA in collaboration with the Sub-Regional Office for Eastern Africa
(SRO-EA)
– 23-27 June 2014, Kigali
– 16 countries
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I/4. Compiling technical documents (Cont’d)
• Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on Supply and Use Tables
– ECA in collaboration with the Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa (SROSA)
– 2-6 June 2014, Port Louis
– 25 countries
• Drafts of Guidebook of administrative data and Handbook on
supply and use table (SUT) are being finalized.
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I/4. Compiling technical documents (Cont’d)
• AFRISTAT:
– Member States are validating a Methodological Guide on the
Production of National Accounts in AFRISTAT Member States
(According to the 2008 SNA)
– On-going work on a Methodological Guidebook on the
Retropolation of National Accounts
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I/6. Monitoring, evaluation, and reporting
• Inaugural Meeting of the CSC in September 2013: CSC will meet
every 6 month during Phase I, and once a year in Phase II of the
Project
• ToRs of the CSC were established during its Inaugural Meeting
held in September 2013 in Addis Ababa.
• 2nd CSC Meeting (or the Friends of the Chair of the CSC) was held
on 2-4 April 2014 in Addis Ababa
• 3rd CSC Meeting convened on 8-9 December 2014 in Tunis
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I/6. Monitoring, evaluation, and reporting (Cont’d)
• Progress report template for the African Project endorsed by the
Friends of the Chair meeting
– Updated on a biannual basis by the Secretariat
– Presented to both AGNA and the CSC
• As part of the transition to Phase II of the project, consultation
with stakeholders about the experience, progress and gaps
observed so far
– Report will be circulated
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II/1. Challenges
Figure 3: Training needs of countries (by activity and planned date for moving to 2008
SNA)
Quarterly GDP
Sector accounts up to financial accounts
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5
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Employment matrix
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GDP (P) by institutions
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6
Data Collection and processing
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ISIC rev4 and CPC rev2
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GDP (P) by industries
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Already moved
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5
2015-2018
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GDP (E)
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SUT
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Production and generation of income accounts
IT tool for compilation
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SNA boundaries
Sector accounts up to capital account
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10
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Undecided
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II/1. Challenges
Figure 4: Technical assistance needs of countries (by activity and planned moving date)
Sector accounts up to financial accounts
SNA boundaries
Quarterly GDP
Employment matrix
GDP (E)
Sector accounts up to capital account
Data Collection and processing
SUT
GDP (P) by institutions
Production and generation of income accounts
IT tool for compilation
ISIC rev4 and CPC rev2
GDP (P) by industries
Already moved
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2015-2018
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Undecided
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II/1. Challenges
Figure 5: Financial assistance needs of countries (number of countries by activity)
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II/2. Challenges and actions to resolve issues
1. Institutional coordination:
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Avoid duplication of activities, improve communication
Secretariat has proposed to the three pan-African institutions (AfDB,
AUC, ECA) to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to assist
African countries to implement the 2008 SNA
2. Reporting mechanism:
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A template has been developed to provide stakeholders a tool to follow
the progress made
Stakeholders are invited to report biannually to the Secretariat on
activities
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II/2. Challenges and actions to resolve issues
3. Supporting countries to play a key and central role in the project
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the report on the needs assessment of countries is expected to help to
match countries’ individual needs to partners capacity for assistance
provision.
4. Financial resource mobilization
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the expected MoU can help pan-African institutions to show their
engagement for the project and pool together resources
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Thank you
Participants are invited to:
• Comment on the progress that has been made
• Comment on challenges not mentioned above
• Provide advice on how to improve and strengthen the implementation of
the Project