Building Partnerships for Enhanced Building Partnerships for Enhanced Analysis and Utilization of Census Analysis and Utilization of Census

DataDataPretoria

25 March 2014

UN Regional Seminar on Promotion and Utilization of UN Regional Seminar on Promotion and Utilization of Census Results and on Revision of the Principles and Census Results and on Revision of the Principles and

Recommendations for Recommendations for PHCsPHCs

OutlineOutline

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Strategy for Data Analysis and Dissemination – an overview

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Key Elements of the Strategy33

Background

BackgroundBackground27 years of civil war and short-term/emergency-driven planning11

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22 Low culture of evidence-based policy making

33 Limited capacity to analyze and interpret data

44 Upcoming PHC 2014 (May), the first in 44 years – Major Opportunity to: Respond to growing demand for statistics for

decision-making

Strengthen the national (INE and Academia) capacity to analyze and interpret data

Strategy for Data Analysis and Dissemination – An overview22

Based on Three main pillars: Timely publication of results

Preliminary results – 3 months after data collection Final results – up to 18 months after data collection

Strengthening of Institutional and Technical Capacity

Enhancing the use of the PHC data for evidence-based policy making at all levels (National, Provincial, municipality)

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Identification of key stakeholders/users led to plans for drafting 8 thematic reports and other products

Partnerships at the core of the strategy: Stakeholders groups – for regular consultations, fostering

producer-user communication and building users’ ownership of the reports

MoU with key universities – for ensuring university researchers to participate, including access to the microdata for academic research at a later stage

Sister and UN Agencies – for direct technical support or for help in identifying international experts

Key Elements of the Strategy33

Main themes Identified

Demography - Migration, civil registration, Mortality, …

Education - Highest level attended, access to primary and secondary education, …

Children characteristics - Orphanhood, civil registration, child labor,…

Youth characteristics – Employment, access to ICT, …

Women characteristics – Fertility, maternal mortality, …

Housing, household characteristics and environment - Water and sanitation, waste disposal, …

Economic activity characteristics

Gender characteristics

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Enhanced Stakeholders’ Participation

A Stakeholders Committee established for consultation throughout the drafting process At least 3 consultations workshops will be organized for:

Feedback gathering on plans of analysis; First draft of the reports; Official Launching of the thematic reports

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Technical Teams

A professional firm will be hired for technical support and coordination

Teams for each theme will be structure into 3 levels to ensure capacity building and nationally contextualized content: Thematic Expert (provided by the consultant firm) Data Analyst (provided by the consultant firm) National Analysts (INE staff or experts hired locally)

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