Related Guidelines

Stage A: Preliminary Stage B: Design Stage C: Deployment

Stage A: Preliminary Stage

  • Phase 1: Engaging the stakeholders

    • Step 1.2. Design and prepare the NSDS roadmap.    

      • Guide to Drafting a Roadmap for Designing the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics. PARIS21. 2005.  

    • Step 1.3. Develop the NSDS advocacy toolkit.    

      • Advocating for the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics: Country-level  Toolkit. PARIS21. 2010.  

  • Phase 2: Preparing the institutional framework

Stage B: Design Stage

  • Phase 3: Assessing the NSS
    • Step 3.1 Assess the NSS capacity 
      • Assessing the capacity of the national statistical system: a user’s guide. PARIS21. August 2018.

        • A compilation of various documented NSS assessment tools and a comprehensive guide for developing countries in identifying and selecting an assessment framework suitable to country context and conditions to aid in the formulation of the NSDS.  

      • Guide Pratique à L’attention Des Participants à Un Examen Par Les Pairs. PARIS21. 

        • a South-South learning approach in statistical development to review the NSS’ governance, organisation, strategic planning, service to users, funding, and sustainability.  

      • Improving National Statistical Systems: The Role of Peer Reviews
        Mohamedou, El Iza, B. Baredes, G. Tejada, and J. Matthiessen. PARIS21 Discussion Paper No. 16. May 2019.

        • provides an overview of the national statistical system (NSS) peer reviews by presenting the mechanisms in place to ensure their transparency and accountability and ways to enhance their effectiveness for disseminating good practices between countries.  
      • Peer reviews in the European Statistical System (ESS)
        • a strategy to implement the ESS Code of Practice (CoP) toward enhanced integrity, independence, and accountability of statistical authorities in the ESS.  
      • UNECE global assessment of the national statistical systems 
      • provides an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of countries’ institutional, organisational, and technical capacity to produce official statistics that comply with international and European guidelines and recommendations, including the UNFPOS and the European Statistics Code of Practice (CoP). 
      • useful for countries interested in joining the European Community, those countries intending to subscribe to the to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standards, or countries wishing to compare with ESS practices.  
      • Needs Assessment (Strategic Development of Subnational Statistics). PARIS21.
        • Steps to undertake needs assessment on subnational statistics to inform strategies for integration in the NSDS
        • based on a discussion paper on a literature review and four case studies in consultation with the NSOs of Ethiopia, Indonesia, Mozambique and Uruguay.  
      • Guidelines for the In-depth Country Assessment (IdCA) of agriculture statistics. FAO.
        • recommended standard methodology to assess countries’ capacity to produce agricultural statistics taking into account similar international frameworks for assessing capacity and data quality of national statistical systems.  
      • PARIS21’s Statistical Capacity Development 4.0 Guidelines
        • provide a user-friendly way on how to implement capacity development programmes, illustrated by case studies; covers technical skills as well as softer skills such as leadership, change management, advocacy and networking  
      • Country Support on Support to Statistics (CRESS)
        • an analysis of the level and sources, patterns and trends, and strategies for financing statistics at the country level; developed and facilitated by PARIS21 and implemented in partnership with requesting countries.
    • Step 3.2 Assess the statistical outputs
      • Assessing data and statistical capacity gaps for better gender statistics: Framework and implementation guidelines. PARIS21.
        • Proposes detailed steps, methods, activities and tools for conducting the assessment of the state of gender statistics in a country, including the capacity of the national statistical system in producing and using these statistics.
        • Resulting assessment report is meant to inform appropriate strategies to address challenges related to gender statistics  
      • Guidelines for the In-depth Country Assessment (IdCA) of agriculture statistics. FAO.
        • recommended standard methodology to assess countries’ capacity to produce agricultural statistics taking into account similar international frameworks for assessing capacity and data quality of national statistical systems.  
      • Assessing data and statistical capacity gaps for better gender statistics: Framework and implementation guidelines. PARIS21.
        • poses methods, activities and tools for conducting the assessment of the state of gender statistics in a country, including the capacity of the national statistical system in producing and using these statistics.
        • Resulting assessment report is meant to inform appropriate strategies to address challenges related to gender statistics  
  • Phase 4: Envisioning and identifying strategic goals
    • Step 4.1 Define the NSS vision, mission, and core values    
      • A National Strategy for the Development of Education Statistics (NSEDS)-Guidelines for Country-level design of the NSEDS. UNESCO.
        • guide for country-level stakeholders in preparing their NSDES and medium-term capacity development program plan for education statistics, based on the overall NSDS process.
        • Provides steps for strategic planning toward improvement of education statistics.  
    • Step 4.2 Identify priority strategic goals     
      • Guidelines on Strategic Plans for Agricultural and Rural Statistics (SPARS). FAO.  
  • Phase 5: Elaborating the action plan

Stage C: Deployment Stage

  • Phase 6: Implementing and monitoring the NSDS
  • Phase 7: Evaluating
    • Step 7.2 Conduct the final evaluation    
      • PARIS21’s Statistical Capacity Development 4.0 Guidelines
        • Evaluate the different steps the NSDS process took to strengthen the capabilities prioritized through the CD4.0 matrix. It may be also useful to review the theory of change at this stage to reflect on processes that worked or did not work