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Report of the Third Meeting of the Steering Group for the Regional Programme for Economic Statistics (SGRPES) 29-31 October, Bangkok Thailand I. Introduction 1. The Third Meeting of the Steering Group for the Regional Programme on Economic Statistics was held in Bangkok on 29-31 October. It was attended by Jonathon Khoo (Australia), Golam Kamal (Bangladesh), Seng Soeurn (Cambodia), Wang Ping (China), Kwok Shun Lau (Hong Kong, China), Satyabrata Chakrabarti (India), Adi Lumaksono (Indonesia), Seiji Takata (Japan), Phetsamone Sone (Lao PDR), Mohd Uzir Mahidin (Malaysia), Mariyam Niyaf Mohamed (Maldives), Badamtsetseg Batjargal (Mongolia), Jeff Cope (New Zealand), Bahrawar Jan (Pakistan), Kwon Soon Moon (Republic of Korea), Andrey Tatarinov (Russian Federation), Aliielua Salani (Samoa), Poh Cheem Neo (Singapore), Tülay Korkmaz (Turkey) and Pham Quang Vinh (Viet Nam). Agus Sutanto (ASEAN); Jillian Campbell (ESCAP Pacific Office); Tite Habiyakare (ILO); Vilailuk Tiranutti (European Union); Allan Nicholls (FAO RAP); Michael Andrews (IMF); Rie Sato (Japan International Cooperation Agency) and staff from ESCAP Statistics Division as well as SIAP were also present at the meeting. Apologies from the following Steering Group members were received: Gagik Ananyan (Armenia), Leslie Wai-kong Tang, (Hong Kong, China), Joseph Aka (Papua New Guinea), Romeo Recide (Chair of the Steering Committee for Agricultural and Rural Statistics) and Nilima Lal (SPC).1 2. The provisional programme for the meeting was adopted.2 3. Mr Jeff Cope was elected Chair of the Steering Group and he also chaired the meeting. Ms Badamsetseg Batjargal and Mr Satyabrata Chakrabarti were elected as co-chairs of the Steering Group. II. Organization of the meeting 4. The meeting was organized in four sessions with a special session on the national implementation of the Regional Programme for the Improvement of Economic Statistics (henceforth the “Regional Programme” or RPES) by the ESCAP secretariat and the Coordination Committee comprising the Steering Group members representing the Asian Development Bank, India, Japan, Mongolia, New Zealand, Russian Federation, Samoa and Singapore. All meeting documents are accessible at http://www.unescap.org/stat/econ/SGRPES-Oct2013/index.asp\ 1 2 Please see Annex III for the complete list of participants. Please see Annex II for the programme of the meeting. 1 5. The following topics were discussed on the basis of presentations by Steering Group members and development partners; session 4 also featured group work: A. Session 1: The Regional Programme on Economic Statistics. B. Session 2: Capacity gaps and resources for producing the Core Set of Economic Statistics in Asia and the Pacific. C. Special session on the National Implementation of the Regional Programme on Economic Statistics. D. Session 3a: Technical assistance for economic statistics in Asia and the Pacific. E. Session 3b: Training on economic statistics in Asia and the Pacific. F. Session 4: Planning the steps ahead. III. Summary of the main conclusions 6. Recommendations emanating from the meeting are given below. The summary of the discussions are given in Section IV. A. Session 1: The Regional Programme on Economic Statistics 7. It was decided that the secretariat would look into the issues cutting across the different regional programmes developed and implemented under the guidance of the ESCAP Committee on Statistics concerning institutional and organizational aspects of data production and dissemination. The links between the economic and social statistics programmes were especially highlighted, given that labour statistics is a component of the core sets of both programmes. It was recommended that the Chairs of the Steering Groups of the different regional programmes meet to think through bridging the institutional-technical gap in statistics development and also to indicate clearly what is expected from the development partners. 8. The Regional Programme on Economic Statistics and the mandate of development partners shall be coordinated effectively so that countries can benefit from the available resources in order to reach the objectives of the Regional Programme. 9. Coordination at the national level is equally important and national statistical systems shall establish a coordination mechanism inclusive of all economic statistics providers. In the same vein, institutional guidelines are not spelled out in the Regional Programme. It would be useful to have a model for countries to follow in this regard. B. Session 2: Capacity gaps and resources for producing the Core Set of Economic Statistics in Asia and the Pacific 10. It was agreed that the Capacity Screening results be rearranged in order to delineate priority issues and priority countries with the highest number of technical gaps. It was suggested that the results of the Capacity Screening be 2 supplemented by other assessments such as the Reports on the Observation of Standards and Codes conducted by the IMF in designing activities; and that matching matrices containing related programmes and priority areas of work of development partners be compiled to provide guidance to countries in approaching partners for support. C. Special session on the National Implementation of the Regional Programme on Economic Statistics 11. Steering Group members agreed to focus Regional Programme implementation on accelerating existing efforts to improve economic statistics in line with the Core Set. While many countries have some kind of plan to improve economic statistics in place, the Regional Programme shall strive to close gaps with the Core Set as the shared ambition in the region. 12. It was decided by the Steering Group that advocacy and coordination at the national level were indispensable for countries to implement their national plans for improving economic statistics. Without advocacy it is not possible to mobilize resources and without coordination among the economic statistics producers, effective implementation and sustainability of plans is not attainable. D. Session 3a: Technical assistance for economic statistics in Asia and the Pacific 13. It was recommended that the Regional Programme on Economic Statistics (i) link up to the other regional programmes on what concerns common points such as human resources, information technology, leadership; (ii) establish links between development partners; (iii) establish links to sub-regional initiatives through development plans in the ASEAN and Pacific sub-regions and (iv) identify the areas where in-depth assessment is needed based on the Capacity Screening results. E. Session 3b: Training on economic statistics in Asia and the Pacific 14. Countries need guidance in assessing the skills set needed to produce economic statistics. Such skills assessments should cover all economic statistics data producers in the country and not just the NSO. F. Session 4: Planning the steps ahead 15. The participants broke into three working groups to discuss: (i) country-level implementation of the Regional Programme; (ii) regional-level implementation of the Regional Programme and (iii) monitoring of the Regional Programme implementation. The main conclusions of the discussions are given below. A draft work programme with the division of labour based on the outcomes of Session 4 is given in Annex I. 3 16. The four outputs—and the activities—stipulated in Annex II of the Implementation plan for the Regional Programme for the Improvement of Economic Statistics in Asia and the Pacific,3 i.e. advocacy, coordination, statistical infrastructure and skills were confirmed. In going forward with the implementation of activities under each of these components, the first step is to prepare terms of reference for the national focal points and to energize their network through the sharing of the Capacity Screening results and other regular updates. At the national level, implementation within the framework of the national statistics development strategies (NSDS) and national economic statistics development plans which are aligned with the NSDS was confirmed. At the regional level, apart from providing guidelines and tools for the national implementation of the Regional Programme, the Steering Group recommended formalizing a sub-group of Partnership for Statistics Development in Asia and the Pacific focusing on economic statistics. This sub-group would be in charge of coordinating the activities and the programmes of the development partners. In terms of monitoring progress towards achieving Regional Programme results, the use of the Core Set as a proxy indicator at the regional level was confirmed, bearing in mind that this would not fully capture quality aspects. Specific indicators of achievement would be needed to reflect partner efforts. Since each country would have its own baseline and determine its own steps towards achieving Programme results, indicators and intermediate targets would, to some extent, be country-specific and thus would have to be incorporated into the NESDP. National focal points, development partners and the secretariat would share the responsibility for regular reporting. 17. A sub-regional approach in the Pacific and for the ASEAN countries was recommended. In order to implement the Regional Programme in these countries the importance of integrating RPES in the sub-regional strategies, i.e. the Ten Years Pacific Statistics Strategy 2011-2020 and the ASEAN Strategic Plan 20162020 was highlighted. A similar approach can also be sought after with the SAARC Secretariat, if possible. 18. In terms of the programme management activities, it was decided that the Secretariat would ask for quick feedback from the focal points regarding any nominations from Central Banks and Ministries of Finance. 19. The timing of the next face-to-face meeting will be decided based on the needs of the Steering Group to get together. IV. Summary of discussions A. Session 1: The Regional Programme on Economic Statistics Presentations/documents: Regional Programme on Economic Statistics and its implementation (ESCAP), The Core Set of Economic Statistics: An Overview (Chair), Expected Outcomes of the Third Meeting of the SGRPES (ESCAP) and the Purpose, Concept and Expected Outcomes of the Third Meeting of SGRPES (ESCAP with Coordination Committee). 3 Please see http://www.unescap.org/stat/cst/3/CST3-CRP1E.pdf 4 20. Session 1 was organized and chaired by Mr Satyabrata Chakrabarti of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, India. Presentations were given by the ESCAP secretariat on the Regional Programme of Economic Statistics and its implementation, and the expected outcomes of the meeting. The Chair of the Steering Group presented the Core Set of Economic Statistics in this session. The purpose of Session 1 was to ensure that all Steering Group members were familiar with the Regional Programme and to set the framework for the following sessions of the meeting. 21. The following points were made during the plenary discussion: Labour and employment statistics, household income and expenditure statistics, and natural resources statistics should be a focus of the capacity building initiatives, as there are still many countries in the region which do not produce the basic indicators on a regular basis. ESCAP secretariat will review the capacity of countries to produce and disseminate the Core Set of Social and Population Statistics, of which labour is also a component. A similar undertaking is in view for environment statistics since the Committee has asked the secretariat to develop a regional strategy in this domain. Environment statistics share natural resources as a component with the Core Set of Economic Statistics. There are links among the different regional programmes mandated by the ESCAP Committee on Statistics in terms of the institutional and organizational capacity of the national statistical systems. Technical and/or institutional reasons for insufficient internal collaboration within the national statistical system have to be identified. The Regional Programme alone is not enough to tackle all these issues; countries have to work on them actively. 22. It was concluded that the secretariat shall support the countries in setting up a coordination mechanism at the national level and coordinate with the development partners as well as ensure that there is concerted action on the areas common to the different capacity building regional programmes for Asia and the Pacific, e.g. concerning institutional and organizational capacity. B. Session 2: Capacity gaps and resources for producing the Core Set of Economic Statistics in Asia and the Pacific Presentations/documents: Development of the Capacity Screening Tool (Poh Cheem, Singapore) and Results of the Capacity Screening Exercise (ESCAP). 23. Session 2 was organized and chaired by Ms Badamsetseg Batjargal of the National Statistical Office of Mongolia. Presentations were given by Mr Poh Cheem of Singapore Department of Statistics and Coordination Committee 5 member and by the ESCAP secretariat on the Capacity Screening tool and results at the regional level. 24. The following points were made during the plenary discussion: The importance of producing quality statistics with integrated elements such as metadata was emphasized. There is a need for further advocacy for the importance of statistics in general. Steering Group members emphasized that different countries have different needs. While following national priorities is key in the implementation of RPES, it was highlighted that it is important to maintain a common reference and objective of capacity building in order to make progress rather than adapt the goals to the current capacity. It would be useful to group countries with similar capacity gaps and sub-regionally where it is makes sense in order to facilitate coordination among development partners and the countries. The Capacity Screening results shall be used for identifying areas and countries where action is required. It may be useful to supplement Capacity Screening results with other assessments, especially when designing concrete activities. Countries may also provide additional information on their needs and priorities to the development partners. 25. In conclusion, it was decided that the Capacity Screening would be shared with the countries not represented on the Steering Group and would be analyzed further to tease out the priority areas and countries. 6 C. Special session on the National Implementation of the Regional Programme on Economic Statistics Presentations/documents: ESCAP secretariat put forth some questions for discussion. 26. This session was organized by the ESCAP secretariat and chaired by the Chair of the Steering Group. 27. The following points were made during the plenary discussion: Countries referred to the national summary sheets that were prepared based on the Capacity Screening results in their interventions. Capacity gaps in information technology, institutional inefficiency, lack of qualified staff lack and high staff turnover, lack of funding, insufficient coordination among data providers The importance of sharing the results with countries that are not represented on the Steering Group was emphasized. For country-level implementation conducting an in-depth assessment, setting up a coordination mechanism for improving economic statistics and designing a country action plan were suggested as the necessary first steps. The importance of advocacy at the national level to include statistics development in national development plans was underlined. D. Session 3a: Technical assistance for economic statistics in Asia and the Pacific Presentations/documentation: Country presentations were given by the Steering Group members from Australia, Indonesia, Mongolia, New Zealand and Turkey. European Union, ASEAN, SPC (delivered by Michael Andrews), ADB, ILO, IMF, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the ESCAP secretariat also provided presentations on the technical assistance activities in the field of economic statistics. 28. This session was organized and chaired by Mr Andrey Tatarinov, Russian Federal State Statistics Service. Presentations on technical assistance activities on economic statistics were given by Steering Group members and international organizations. 29. The following are the salient points from the plenary discussion: ASEAN needs support in statistical capacity building activities in the member countries. ASEAN has integrated the Core Set of Economic Statistics in their framework. For the Pacific countries, NSDS development was highlighted as a key area for developing economic statistics and statistics in general. Currently only Samoa has an NSDS but a number of 7 countries have plans to design an NSDS in the coming year or two. 30. In conclusion, a possible way forward for technical assistance within the Regional Programme was outlined as: (i) link up with other regional programmes in terms of human resources, information technology and leadership aspects; (ii) establish links among development partners; (iii) establish sub-regional activities and (iv) review the Capacity Screening results and identify areas that require in-depth analysis. E. Session 3b: Training on economic statistics in Asia and the Pacific Presentations/documentation: Country presentations were given by the Steering Group members from China, India, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia and the Russian Federation. SIAP and IMF also gave presentations on their training approaches and programmes on economic statistics. 31. This session was organized and chaired by Mr Seiji Takata, International Statistical Affairs, Office of Director-General for Policy Planning on Statistical Standards, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan. Presentations on approaches to and programmes of training on economic statistics were given by Steering Group members and international organizations. 32. The following are the salient points based on the plenary discussion: There is an initiative to coordinate training in Asia and the Pacific including but not limited to economic statistics. SIAP is the secretariat to this coordination group. The coordination could take the form of meeting the gaps in economic statistics training, facilitating online training and collaborating with universities and other academic institutions. SIAP will conduct a training needs assessment for the NSOs in the region in 2014. SIAP has developed a core skills framework but has not yet tested it. It would be useful to include other producers of official statistics in national statistical system in this needs assessment exercise. SPC conducted a skills needs assessment in the Pacific countries. A lot of economic statistics training activities seem to focus on the System of National Accounts but not so much on improving the source data. There may be a need to rebalance that. The ILO training centre in Turin provides annual courses on labour statistics, and the ILO Department of Statistics is also trying to establish collaboration with SIAP and selected national training agencies in Asia to reach participants in the Asian and Pacific region more easily. 33. In conclusion, the importance of assisting countries to conduct skills needs assessments and also coordinating training activities on economic statistics was emphasized. 8 F. Session 4: Planning the steps ahead Presentations/documentation: Annex II of the Implementation plan for the Regional Programme for the Improvement of Economic Statistics in Asia and the Pacific,4 RPES Next Steps (ESCAP secretariat and the Chair of Steering Group) and Reports back to the plenary (Groups 1, 2 and 3). 34. This session was organized and chaired by the Chair of the Steering Group. A trigger presentation outlining the tasks for the Steering Group by the end of the meeting and the different working groups was given by the ESCAP secretariat and the Chair. 35. The results of the discussions that took place in the group discussions and the plenary are given in Annex I as the draft work programme. 4 Please see http://www.unescap.org/stat/cst/3/CST3-CRP1E.pdf 9 Annex I. Draft Work Programme Output/Activity Advocacy—regional Develop advocacy materials adapted to groups of countries with different immediate priorities: short version of RPES, how to develop or enhance and NESDP, role of focal points, etc. Advocacy—national Consultations with stakeholders to mobilize political and financial support for RPES implementation Coordination—regional Identify priority areas and priority countries for technical assistance based on the Capacity Screening results and resources to respond to their needs Share Capacity Screening results with all focal points Provide guidelines for the development of NESDP Establish a knowledge sharing platform for the development partners (international/sub-regional) and the countries of the region on activities and good practices Establish a sub-group of the Partnership for Statistics Development in Asia and the Pacific, focusing on economic statistics responsible for (i) facilitating coordination among development partners in technical assistance and training on economic statistics through aligning respective programmes with RPES and the Core Set and (ii) delivering RPES outputs relevant to their respective mandate and work programme Provide regular updates to the countries Responsible Support/input needed Deadline ESCAP and development partners PARIS21 on NSDS development Q1 2014 NSOs with other economic statistics providers and stakeholders at the national level ESCAP, SG members and development partners Starting from Q2 2014 ESCAP Guidance from SG Q4 2013 ESCAP Q4 2013 ESCAP and development partners, e.g. PARIS21 ESCAP Guidance from SG Q1 2014 Contributions from countries and development partners Q1 2014 ESCAP Q1 2014 ESCAP Contributions from 10 Starting from Q1 2014 of the region as well as the development partners on the implementation of RPES, e.g. a quarterly newsletter featuring country experiences Coordination—national Mapping of the Core Set against the economic statistics component of NSDS/equivalent Consultations with stakeholders for needs assessment, capability gaps and identification of priorities Infrastructure—regional Identify gaps in current provision of international assistance Develop concept notes for technical assistance concerning priority areas on infrastructure Identify good practices related to infrastructure and share on the knowledge sharing platform Infrastructure—national Identify priority areas for technical assistance on infrastructure based on Capacity Screening and country requests/plans Skills—regional Identify gaps in the currently available economic statistics training programmes Develop skills needs assessment tool for producing and disseminating economic statistics in national statistical systems Identify good practices, resources and gaps for economic statistics training based on the Core Set components Develop training materials and training concepts for the Core Set components countries and development partners Coordinated by national focal points ESCAP and SG Starting from Q1 2014 Coordinated by NSOs ESCAP and development partners, SG Starting from Q2 2014 ESCAP with FAO, IMF, ILO, ASEAN, SPC, UNSD ESCAP and development partners Guidance from SG Starting from Q1 2014 Guidance from SG Starting from Q4 2013 ESCAP SG and national focal points Starting from Q1 2014 ESCAP Guidance from SG Starting from Q4 2013 ESCAP (SIAP) and ADB, EUROSTAT, FAO, ILO, IMF, JICA, PARIS21, SESRIC, SIAP, SPC, UNFPA, UNIDO, UNSD and the World Bank Guidance from SG Starting from Q1 2014 ESCAP (SIAP) Guidance from SG Q1 2014 ESCAP Guidance from SG Starting from Q4 2013 ESCAP (SIAP) and development partners Guidance from SG Starting from Q2 2014 11 where there is a need Skills—national Conduct skills needs assessments covering all economic statistics providers in the national statistical system Governance Prepare a TOR for focal points Identify focal points across the region Organize audio-conferences for the Coordination Committee, as needed Organize the fourth meeting of the Steering Group Programme Management Develop a resource mobilization strategy and continue to seek funding Develop RPES monitoring framework with targets and indicators NSOs and other economic statistics providers Guidance from SG Starting from Q1 2014 ESCAP ESCAP and SG ESCAP Guidance from SG Q4 2013 Q4 2013 Ongoing ESCAP and CC TBD ESCAP Guidance from SG Q1 2014 and ongoing ESCAP Guidance from SG Q1 2014 12 Annex II. Programme of the Third Meeting of the Steering Group for the Regional Programme for Economic Statistics Tuesday, 29 October 2013 09.30 – 10.00 Opening, election of Chair, presentation of the agenda ESCAP secretariat Chair 10.00 – 10.15 Committee Terms of Reference of the SGRPES and the Coordination Coordination Committee 10.15 – 10.35 10.35 – 12.00 Coffee break Session 1: The Regional Programme on Economic Statistics (RPES) Session Organizer/Chair: Satyabrata Chakrabarti Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, India Introduction to Session 1 Session Chair Regional Programme on Economic Statics and its implementation Zeynep Orhun, ESCAP secretariat The Core Set of Economic Statistics: An Overview Jeff Cope, Statistics New Zealand Expected outcomes of the Third Meeting of SGRPES Rikke Munk Hansen, ESCAP Plenary Discussion Summary of Session 1 Session Chair 12.00 – 13.30 13.30 – 16.00 Lunch Session 2: Capacity gaps and resources for producing the Core Set of Economic Statistics in Asia and the Pacific, Session Organizer/Chair: Batjargal Badamtsetseg, National Statistical Office of Mongolia Introduction to Session 2 Session Chair Development of the Capacity Screening Tool Poh Cheem Neo, Singapore Department of Statistics 13 The results of the Capacity Screening Exercise Zeynep Orhun, ESCAP secretariat 14.30 – 14.50 Coffee break Plenary Discussion Summary of Session 2 Session Chair 16.00 –17.15 Session 3a: Technical assistance for economic statistics in Asia and the Pacific, Session Organizer/Chair: Andrey Tatarinov, Russian Federal State Statistics Service Introduction to Session 3a Session Chair Technical assistance for improving economic statistics/Australia Jonathon Khoo, Australian Bureau of Statistics Technical assistance for improving economic statistics/Indonesia Adi Lumaksono, Statistics Indonesia Technical assistance for improving economic statistics/Mongolia Batjargal Badamsetseg, National Statistical Office of Mongolia Technical assistance for improving economic statistics/New Zealand Jeff Cope, Statistics New Zealand Technical assistance for improving economic statistics/Turkey Tülay Korkmaz, Turkish Statistical Institute Technical assistance for improving economic statistics in Asia and the Pacific by the European Commission Vilailuk Tiranutti, European Commission Wrap-up and announcements 17.30 – 19.30 Cocktail Reception at the Rajapruek Lounge Wednesday, 30 October 2013 09.00 – 10.00 Session on implementation of RPES at the national level 10.00 – 14.25 Session 3a: Technical assistance for economic statistics in Asia and the Pacific, Continued 14 Technical assistance for improving economic statistics for ASEAN member countries Agus Sutanto, ASEAN 10.15 – 10.35 Coffee break Technical assistance for improving economic statistics in the Pacific Nilima Lal, Secretariat for the Pacific Community (SPC) Technical assistance for improving economic statistics in Asia and the Pacific/Asian Development Bank Chellam Palanyandy, ADB Technical assistance for improving economic statistics in Asia and the Pacific by the ILO Tite Habiyakare, ILO Technical assistance for improving economic statistics in Asia and the Pacific by the IMF Michael Andrews, IMF The Asia-Pacific Regional Action Plan to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics and its links to RPES Allan Nicholls, FAO Regional Office 12.00 – 13.30 Lunch Technical assistance for improving economic statistics by other development partners and the United Nations Marko Javorsek, ESCAP secretariat Plenary Discussion Summary of Session 3a Session Chair 14.25 – 17.30 Session 3b: Training on economic statistics in Asia and the Pacific, Session Organizer/Chair: Seiji Takata, Director for International Statistical Affairs, Office of Director-General for Policy Planning on Statistical Standards, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan Introduction to Session 3b Session Chair Approaches to and programme of training on economic statisticsin China Ping Wang, National Bureau of Statistics Approaches to and programme of training on economic statistics in India 15 Satyabrata Chakrabarti, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, India Approaches to and programme of training on economic statistics in Indonesia Adi Lumaksono, Statistics Indonesia 15.05 – 15.25 Coffee break Approaches to and programme of training on economic statistics in the Republic of Korea Moon Kwon Soon, Statistics Korea Approaches to and programme of training on economic statistics in Malaysia Mohd Uzir Mohidin, Department of Statistics, Malaysia Approaches to and programme of training on economic statistics in the Russian Federation Andrey Tatarinov, Russian Federal State Statistics Service IMF’s approach to and programme of training on economic statistics in Asia and the Pacific Michael Andrews, IMF SIAP’s approach to and programme of training on economic statistics in Asia and the Pacific Margarita Guerrero, SIAP Plenary Discussion Summary of Session 3b Session Chair Thursday, 31 October 2013 09.30 – 17.30 Session 4: Planning the steps ahead Session Organizer/Chair: Jeff Cope, Statistics New Zealand 09.30 – 10.00 Introduction to Session 4 Session Chair 10.00 – 12.00 Group work 12.00 – 13.00 Lunch 16 13.00 – 14.00 Group work, continued 14.00 – 15.30 Report back to Plenary 15.30 – 15.50 Coffee break 15.50 – 17.10 Presentation and discussion of the proposed work programme for SGRPES 17.10 – 17.20 Summary of Session 4 (agreed next steps) Session Chair 17.20 – 17.30 Closing Chair and ESCAP secretariat 17 Annex III. List of Participants for the Third Meeting of the Steering Group for the Regional Programme for Economic Statistics MEMBERS AUSTRALIA Mr Jonathan Khoo, Director, Public Finance, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Brisbane, Australia BANGLADESH Mr Golam Kamal, Director General (Additional Secretary), Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Dhaka CAMBODIA Mr Seng Soeurn, Deputy Director General, National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning, Phnom Penh CHINA Ms Wang Ping, Director, Statistical Standard Division, National Bureau of Statistics, Beijing HONG KONG, CHINA Mr Kwok Shun Lau, Senior Statistician, Economic Surveys, Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong INDIA Mr Satyabrata Chakrabarti, Deputy Director General, Central Statistics Office, New Delhi INDONESIA Mr Adi Lumaksono, Deputy Chief Statistician for Production Statistics, BPS – Statistics Indonesia, Jakarta JAPAN Mr Seiji Takata, Director, International Statistical Affairs, Office of Director-General for Policy Planning on Statistical Standards, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Tokyo LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC Ms Phetsamone Sone, Director General, Department of Economics Statistics, Lao Statistics Bureau, Vientiane 18 MALAYSIA Mr Mohd Uzir Mahidin, Senior Director, Department of Statistics, Selangor, Malaysia MALDIVES Ms Mariyam Niyaf Mohamed, Deputy Director General, Statistics Division, Department of National Planning, Ministry of Finance and Treasury, Male MONGOLIA Ms Badamtsetseg Batjargal, Director, Macro Economic Statistics Department, National Statistical Office, Ulaanbaatar NEW ZEALAND Mr Jeff Cope, Principal Economic Statistician, Statistics New Zealand, Christchurch, New Zealand PAKISTAN Mr Bahrawar Jan, Deputy Director General, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Islamabad REPUBLIC OF KOREA Mr Kwon Soon Moon, Director, Statistics Korea, Daejeon, Republic of Korea RUSSIAN FEDERATION Mr Andrey Tatarinov, Director, Department of National Accounts, Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), Moscow SAMOA Mr Aliielua Salani, Assistant Chief Executive Officer, National Accounts & Finance Statistics, Samoa Bureau of Statistics, Apia SINGAPORE Mr Poh Cheem Neo, Deputy Director, Department of Statistics, Singapore TURKEY Ms Tülay Korkmaz, Head of National Accounts, Turkish Statistical Institute, Ankara, Turkey VIET NAM Mr Quang Vinh Pham, Deputy Director General, General Statistics Office, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Hanoi ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ 19 SPECIALIZED AGENCIES Food and agriculture organization of the United Nations (FAO) Mr Allan Nicholls, Regional Coordinator, Regional Office for the Asia-Pacific Regional Action Plan to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics, FAO Regional Office for Asia & Pacific, Bangkok INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION (ILO) Mr Tite Habiyakare, Regional Labour Statistician, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, ILO, Bangkok INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF) Mr Michael Andrews, Senior Statistician, Real Sector Division, Statistics Department, IMF -------------- INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) Ms Chellam Palanyandy, Lead Statistician, ADB, Manila ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH-EAST ASIAN NATIONS (ASEAN) Mr Agus Sutanto, Senior Officer, ASEANstats, ASEAN Integration Monitoring Office, Jakarta -------------- OTHER ENTITIES DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION TOTHAILAND (EU) Ms Vilailuk Tiranutti, EU, Bangkok Japan international cooperation agency (JICA) Ms Rie Sato, JICA Thailand Office, Bangkok -------------- 20 ESCAP REGIONAL INSTITUTION STATISTICAL INSTITUTE FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC (SIAP) Ms Margarita Guerrero Director, Chiba, Japan -------------- SECRETARIAT Ms Haishan Fu Chief, Statistics Division (SD) Ms Rikke Munk Hansen (EES), SD Chief, Economic and Environment Statistics Section Mr Yanhong Zhang Officer-in-Charge, Population and Social Statistics Section (PSS), SD Mr Eric Hermouet Statistical Information System Officer, Statistical Data Management Unit, SD Ms Zeynep Orhun Girard Statistician, EES, SD Mr Daniel Clarke Statistician, EES, SD Mr Aaron Beck Statistician, PSS, SD Ms Jillian Campbell Statistician, ESCAP Pacific Office Mr Marko Javorsek Associate Statistician, EES, SD Ms Tanja Sejersen Associate Statistician, PSS, SD Mr Sean Lovell Associate Statistician, PSS, SD Ms Sharita Serrao Associate Statistician, PSS, SD __________________________________ 21 Annex IV. Evaluation Results of the Third Meeting of the Steering Group for the Regional Programme for Economic Statistics 22 evaluation forms completed I. Organization of meeting: Too short 1. Duration of the meeting Adequate 20 Too long 2 Poor Adequate 4 Very good 18 2 3 16 2. Please rate the following aspects of the meeting: 2.1 Preparations by ESCAP secretariat 2.1.a Meeting facilities 2.1.b Logistics (travel, hotel arrangements) Blank: 1 2.2 Documents 2.2.a Time distribution 7 15 2.2.b Comprehensiveness 8 14 2.3 Has the meeting achieved its objectives? Yes 22 No 1 comment: Need deeper discussion II. Content of meeting: 3. Which session(s) did you find most useful and effective? (Please select as many as applicable) Yes Agenda item 1 21 No The Regional Programme on Economic Statistics (RPES) Please provide your comments Blank: 1 Agenda item 2 20 Capacity gaps and resources for producing the Core Set of Economic Statistics in Asia and the Pacific - Would have been more useful to have presented a summary assessment Blank: 2 Agenda item 3a: 16 2 Technical assistance for economic statistics in Asia and the Pacific - Development partners’ roles in providing support could not be assessed. Blank: 4 Special session: 20 1 - No future emerged Session on implementation of RPES at the national level 22 Blank: 1 Agenda item 3b: 16 1 Training on economic - Even better in more focused on the training. statistics in Asia and the Pacific - Country presentation not as relevant as ideal Blank: 5 Agenda item 4 19 1 Planning the steps ahead - Initial plans could not be finally taken on board. Blank: 2 - More time needed. 4. Do you think you will be able to apply any knowledge you gained from this meeting to a positive impact on the capacity of your country to produce, disseminate and use statistics in accordance with internationally agreed standards? Yes No 18 1 Blank: 3 Please explain: - Being involved in NSDS and SDDS and clarification activities. I can link this programme to the countries activities. - I believe this experience will energize me to pull forward the completion of the RPES. - I’ve got some experience from the presentation that introduces the experience on national level. - We are already following international standard closely. - Some concrete ideas on how to move forward in this program has been highlighted. - Understanding the needs in the context of integration and build‐up the mechanisms coordination it is importance. The core set will be the target for future development. Hope this regional program will strengthen the national coordination to come up to an expansion of our NSDS 2020 to prepare detail action plan for each economic sector statistics and how to integrate them into NSEDP. - Importance to emphasize the need for internationally comparable statistics. - Yes, having ideas to a regional level at what works in other countries is an opportunity. 5. Do you have any additional comments or suggestions for the improvement of this meeting? - More time for action planning and discussion would be useful in future. - Thanks to all people of Secretariat. - Time could be longer for group works. - The meeting should be conducted in other countries. - The location of UNCC is a little inconvenient for transportation. Holding a meeting in a hotel near the center of the city is good, although it may need cost? - No. Thanks. 23