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(TA2.18) Innovative Approaches for Population (TA2.18) Innovative Approaches for Population and Housing Censuses: Country Experiencesand Housing Censuses: Country Experiences

Roberto Luis Olinto RamosDirector of Surveys

Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - IBGE

Brazil’s Trilateral South-South CooperationBrazil’s Trilateral South-South Cooperation

Reference Centers for census with Reference Centers for census with electronic data collectionelectronic data collection

Brazil-UNFPA Partnership ProgramBrazil-UNFPA Partnership Program

Cape Town, SA January 2017

Brazilian South-South Cooperation (SSC) PrinciplesBrazilian South-South Cooperation (SSC) Principles

Contribute to the socio-economic development of cooperating countries

Response to demands from developing countries Mutual Benefits and no interference in the domestic affairs of

partner countries Transfer Sharing of knowledge and techniques without

commercial interests Horizontality in the relations between all the partners (no

hierarchy) Acknowledgement of local experience and capacities

Brazilian Trilateral South-South Cooperation with Brazilian Trilateral South-South Cooperation with International OrganizationsInternational Organizations

It has the purpose of potentialize Brazilian South-South Cooperation initiatives

Trilateral cooperation with International Organizations is used when there are comparative advantages in relation to bilateral South-South cooperation (as the scale of operations, the mobilization of resources, the natural extension of received cooperation, etc.)

Trilateral cooperation is also justifiable to address regional issues of collective interest – public security, regional development or global issues, like the 20/30 agenda

Brazil-UNFPA partnership in South-South Cooperation initiatives started in 2002

Since South-South Cooperation is based on knowledge sharing, it always includes the participation of a Brazilian institution specialized in the demanded field. In this case, it is the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) due to the following reasons:

IBGE’s vast experience in population Census (successfully performed all censuses since 1940)

The Brazilian 2010 Population and Housing Census: world’s first census to be performed fully as a digital census, in all its stages.

The Brazilian experience has been considered a reference and a model for technical cooperation at global level

IBGE’s active participation in 2000 and 2010 rounds of the Mercosur Common Census

IBGE’s Experience on CensusIBGE’s Experience on Censuswith Electronic Data Collectionwith Electronic Data Collection

Since 2010, electronic data collection has been improved and incorporated as a standard, regular practice in IBGE, both in Censuses and in household and economic surveys.

This experience has made of Brazil a world reference in census and surveys with electronic data collection.

As a result, the IBGE has been participating in several initiatives in South-South Cooperation (Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Paraguay, Uruguay, etc.)

IBGE’s Experience on CensusesIBGE’s Experience on Censuseswith Electronic Data Collectionwith Electronic Data Collection

In the context of Brazil’s Trilateral South-South Cooperation, create Dissemination Centers in Africa in order to replicate with other African countries the knowledge on census electronic data collection, generated in this capacity building initiative.

Reference Centers: general conceptReference Centers: general concept

African countries: intend to strengthen its capacities, harmonization and integration of statistics for population and housing censuses.

African Union: prioritized the promotion of public policies based on evidences. This requires the use of timely and quality data and information.

Such capabilities strengthening is a fundamental element to reach the 2030 Agenda and the Africa 2063 Agenda.

The African ContextThe African Context

Context of the African continent in relation to the challenges made to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda’s objectives and long-term goals (Agenda Africa 2063).

Public policies and decision-making processes based on evidence - need for quality data in a timely manner

Invest and strengthen national capacities of Statistical Institutions in Africa trough geospatial information systems for collection, analysis and dissemination of data

BackgroundBackground

Justification and RelevanceJustification and Relevance

18 African countries to carry out Population and Housing Census from 2017 to 2022

Several initiatives triggered in order to strengthen the capacities and integrated work in the African statistical community:Censuses, civil registration and vital statistics systems

Brazil's experience in carrying out the 2010 Population Census with electronic collection:recognition as a best practice to be sharedthe experiences of technical cooperation regarding the censuses already undertaken by the IBGEthe recurring demands from African countries for cooperation on the use of this technology/ methodology

UNFPA cooperation history with dozens of countries to conduct population, production, evaluation and dissemination of data censuses.

ObjectivesObjectives

Develop the Capacity of Statistics Institutes of African countries to use electronic data collection technologies, based on IBGE´s experience, in order to establish Dissemination Centers for Census with electronic data collection in Africa.

These Centers will, in future, support other National Statistics Institutes of the region.

Improve data collection technology used by partner countries.

Criteria to identify the Institutes that will act as Criteria to identify the Institutes that will act as reference centersreference centers

Existing infrastructure and capacity;Existing human resources;Existing financial resources;Prior experience in implementation of censuses with

electronic data collection, as Cape Verde and Senegal;Language (1 French, 1 Portuguese and 1 English

Speaking country); Interest in acting as Dissemination Center sharing the

knowledge acquired.

Brazilian Cooperation Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (ABC/MRE)

Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Brazil.

ANSD (Senegal Statistics Office)

INE Cabo Verde (Cape Verde Statistics Office)

Stats SA (South Africa Statistics Office)

Cooperating InstitutionsCooperating Institutions

Direct target

Statistics South Africa (STATS SA)

Agence Nationale de Statistique et de la Démographie (ANSD)

Instituto Nacional de Estatística de Cabo Verde (INECV)

Initiative targetsInitiative targets

Indirect target

National Statistics Offices of African countries that will be supported by the Reference Centers to carry out census during the 2020 round.

Governments of South Africa, Senegal and Cape Verde, which will count on reliable statistics to subsidize the elaboration of public policies;

People of South Africa, Senegal and Cape Verde, which may rely on public policies drawn up in a more refined manner and directed to their needs;

Implementation StrategyImplementation Strategy

First phase: Elaboration of training modules on (i) South-South Technical Cooperation; (ii) IBGE experience in the transition from paper to electronic collection; (iii) methodology for the use of electronic data collection; (iv) census mapping applied to electronic collection; (v) electronic questionnaire, monitoring and control; (vi) training personnel for the electronic collection; (vii) society awareness; and (viii) data dissemination.

Second phase: After receiving the training, the statistics Institutes participating in the initiative will be responsible for training a third country upon request.

During the overall process, the Institutes, with UNFPA support, will mobilize funds and partners to finance the electronic devices for data collection.

Implementation StrategyImplementation Strategy

The activities will starts in February 2017 with the participation of Brazil, UNFPA, Senegal and Cape Verde;

A following stage with the participation of South Africa is still under negotiation.

Role of Partner CountriesRole of Partner Countries

Supporting the development of capacity building national plans jointly with the Brazilian Government and UNFPA;

Ensuring the provision of local contributions, such as: human resources, infrastructure;

Sharing the knowledge acquired with other countries in their respective region and language scope;

Contributing to mobilize financial resources for the acquisition of the equipment needed to conduct the census.

The National offices of Statistics of South Africa, Senegal and Cape Verde will be responsible for:

Muito obrigado!Merci beaucoup!

Thank you very much!