RPES WORK PLAN, PHASE II

24 March 2015
RPES WORK PLAN, PHASE II
4th SGRPES Meeting
23-24 March 2015 Bangkok, Thailand
OBJECTIVES OF THIS DISCUSSION
• Decide on the broad (additional) activities for
the work plan until end-Phase II
• Assign roles and responsibilities across
SGRPES and the secretariat
• Agree on next steps and a timeline
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RPES outputs organized in 4 categories to deliver an
inspiring 2020 vision and measurable progress
4 categories of outputs ...
Advocacy
Advocacy
...to deliver our 2020 common vision...
NSSs in Asia-Pacific have capacity to
produce & disseminate the Core Set in
line with international standards
Coordination
...and reach our key goal of RPES
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Improved soundness of economic
analysis & decision making through
increased availability and effective
use of timely, reliable and comparable
economic statistics
Skills
We are progressing towards delivering our vision
Preparatory
Advocacy
Coordination
Phase 1
• Regional
implementation plan
• Country assessments
• Advocacy for basic
statistics for macro
frameworks
• Alignment with other •
initiatives
• Partnership agreements
• Regional governance
Phase 3
Phase 2
• Enhance advocacy at national
level
Coordination efforts
• Links to other (subregional or
enhanced with partners
statistical output) programmes,
and among national
national plans
agencies
• Focus: Business registers • Focus: BRs, Quality
Infrastructure
Skills
Programme
Management
2011
• Focus: SNA and BR
• Develop training on Core Set
components and support national
training institutes
• Resource Mobilization
• Detailed monitoring framework
2013
2015
2017
2020
Today
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Advocacy at the national level has to be strengthened
• SGRPES to develop advocacy tools from the
user perspective
• User-producer meetings to be organized in
order to create awareness among the users of
the Core Set and its impact on policymaking
• Development partners to support these
meetings (cost-sharing is an option)
Coordination has to be strengthened with subregional
initiatives
• SGRPES membership reflects subregional
representation across Asia and the Pacific
• Selected SGRPES members to act as
subregional focal points:
– Pacific: SPC, members (depending on the topic)
– ASEAN: ??
– CIS: ??
– SAARC: ??
• Regular inputs from-to subregional discussions
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Coordination has to be strengthened with topical
programmes
• Trade and economic globalization:
– India to take the lead in the organization of the focal
area on trade statistics as an example of RPES
implementation and to ensure coordination with the
work plan of SGRPES
– SGRPES members to facilitate establishment of the
Trade Task Force with appropriate members
• There is a proposal from UNSD to hold SGRPES
meetings back-to-back with a regional meeting
on 2008 SNA implementation
Coordination at the national level to be strengthened
• SGRPES members to get a national overview
of the international working groups that their
countries are represented on, e.g. ISWGNA,
UBCG, etc. in order to ensure communication
at the national level
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Coordination Committee to carry out part of the
technical oversight role
• Firm up the list of regional guidelines and tools to be
adapted/developed:
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Peer Review tool incorporating Core Set/SDGs
Enhanced Capacity Screening questionnaire
User questionnaires
Review of how existing tools such as enhanced GDDS can be
used to collect monitoring information taking into account
quality of economic statistics
Guidelines for considering RPES outputs and Core Set in national
planning
Reference material for resource allocation and national
spending on statistics
Revised template for project proposals to Resource Facility
Etc.
Supporting the CC
• Secretariat to draft TORs for any working
groups for the development of
tools/guidelines as advised by the CC
• SGRPES members to submit their CVs to the
secretariat for consideration in development
of tools or delivery of technical assistance
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Monitoring of RPES
• Secretariat to communicate the outcomes of the
CST monitoring discussions to the SGRPES/focal
points
• CC/secretariat to come up with a monitoring
framework in light of the above
• CC/secretariat to propose a format and modality
of national monitoring in the form of case studies
(possibly appended with the regular progress
reports of SGRPES to the Bureau/Committee)
Next Steps
• Secretariat to circulate a detailed work plan by
end-April
• Countries to comment on the work plan by
mid-May
• More regular meetings of CC members
• Fifth meeting of SGRPES January 2016?
• Sixth meeting of SGRPES January 2017?
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