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UNITED NATIONS 24 llove.b5r 19g9

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

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ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA

Sixth session of the Joint Conference of African Planners r Statist! m .ir.r:

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ECA'S TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IN PLANNING, STATISTICS, DEMOGRAPHY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES

I, IMTRODUCTIOM

II. ECA TECHNICM- u.^^~^,'VAhcf IH pt.

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ANNEX I - LIST OF PROJECTS EXECUTED P-Y F:CA th THE FIELDS —^ PriHNTN1' st1 ^tT.^t1 Trs POrULATION AND INFORMATICS AND ANNEX II - LIST OF Rp

E/ECA/PSD.6/5 I. INTRODUCTION

1. The present paper su^^riz-^ the EGA technical assistance activities during th~ Hi-'-nrMum loP.s-]9p,^ i_r fh? f-jpi.^. ^_f

planning, statistic?, demography nnd information sciences^ 'it is

intended to supplement the paper on ''United Nations Te^h^ir-ai 'Cn~

operation Relating to Development Planning' Statistics ^ and

Population in Africa, 1988-1989" (E/SCA/PSD,6/6) prepared by the Department of Technical Co-operation for Development (DTCD) at the United Nations Kead^uar —-r-^ "'""

2. The ECA technical assistance to member stores .^rin^ rhr- penod under reference in the fields indicated above con^in»*d fo focus_ on support to activities being carried out under Africa's Priority Program.m~ for Economic Fscmr=rv fipppsi ^93/3-1 qqn ^p^

the United Nations Programs of Action '"for'" African Economic

Recovery and Development (UM-PAAH]F.D) , 198 6-1990 „ As in tb^. r.3qt

the implementation of the Lagos Plan of Action'and" thr- F^nal^A^f

of Lagos has also been token into acr-r-.vnt-

3. The relevant operational activities w?re financed Tisinlv b^

donor agencies ^ueb as the United Na^ i ons Popin'a^'™ " Fu^d (UNFPa>; the United Nations Development Progra^^e fTTMDP> the' Governments of Canada and th- Union or 5lo"i^t Lri^^^f dI^^h-. ,:1"Z

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the Ford Foundation. The contributions of the" various' "donor agencies during the bienniu- 1 9-°.P.--19p.3 b*<T r.i-.^-i^r-t ,^? ,},„„„" ,■„

the Annex I. However, resources were also'made available'"from the United Nations regular budget and the regular pr^cn*^^ o"f

technical co-operation for carrying out technical""assistance

activities ,. par ticu 1 ar 1 y in thr ?r- -; of p 1 c._nninq , A list of ECA advisers in post during the biennium 19S8-19S^ is also 'attached

as Annex II.

II. ECA TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IN PLANNING

4- In tbe fi-ld ^ development planning, technical assistance

and advisory services were rendered to gin te a ninbsr of £r>iran c o u n t r i e s . The n a ?.. u r e o f t h e a =^ - < -. t- a p.-< .-= -,- v ^ ■!-■=: - w -i ^ Z - - ^ -" " - f

activities including preparation of development" a^d^ penwery plans, policy formulation, investment programmes^ formulation of regional development strategies, donor supported nrocrre^^ Af round fables of African Least- np^i.«.n^ r^iir:tr-H :="=T q^r1

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sectoral modelling.

5 The basic objecti-e of th* ^e-hnical assistance programme is the strengthening of the plannincr cnpp.piliti^s at t-b^ ,P,1?ntrv

™!!'uL /lth *Y\ 7ie^ °f -Parading planning apparatus"!

methodologies and techniques. The "i^i ^ focus of th^

the operationalization of the Laaos Plan of, a^1

components, the United Nations Procrra^r: of A^^on for

Economic Recovery and Development "and the^ Africa'n A

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E/ECA/PSD.6/5 Page 3 Economic Recovery and Transformation" was prepared and t*h^n -ideated hT- the ^oint meefino; of the Ministers of PIRnninc sno. the Minis ters1 of Fir;a.nc? .

Tn the field of short-term, forecasting and structuraal adjustment, EOA continued to provide technical a?sist.anc^ to a number of countries in the preparation of their short — t = r™ pr>licu mode1s. As s i stance was particularly provided to fa) Congo in the design and f r,^_„,^,-1 ^+-»; .->irs rif qhr.rf - ?nd m^diu^—term —odels within the

framework of the preparation of their country's second f ± v P v e a r d e v e 1 o nrn f n t plan 1990-1994; {b) M a 1 i in explaining the important policy issues which are l^n.p.nlnri development plan in Africa allied with year-to- year financial and economic pr^-^^^-^-e formulation and j--.rile^ent^ticn and the adoption of the AAF-SAP approach that ad"iu?t^^-nt ^-us t be seen ss part of a. long-term development process that need to address basic supply

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a m s r: r o — e " o r o " i n model was o r o r> o s e d within the framework of the simulation of the country's alternative policy

■^paj^irpg p.5 thoie contai ned in AAF —SAP,

i■>»-; ■; \ rpu^ tttti f-;=d Nnt- ifips 4^rican Tnstinit« for Economic Dev^lopTvsnt and Planni ng, a subsidiary organ of EC A, r.rnviHr-^ fra^inn r-,r. p dn^t-qinsr! ba"i" to 9° trainees from 26 African countries and 10 2 trainees from 2S r^,,,_.+.ra -^ (Hn-r-i n.-f 19.97-1^-58 a"- 198P>~ 1989 r^-STj^ctivsl1* in economic development and planning, and short-term specialization programmes on industrial development in Afrioa, population and human resources, and agriculture and rural development in Africa. The programmes are also empirically oriented with research and course modules designed to stimulate actual field experience. During

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th-- UTinp \chi .-fh rii^r^.^7"i rt^^ t-h^ Vmi j_v of th^ budget tTNFPA which provides resources for a special training programme on population and human resources, and other sources such as USAID, the World Bank, and the Commonwealth ^-eoret-?triat eto -_

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III. EGA TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IN STATISTICS

7, In the field "of statistics. the major technical assistance activities were carried out under two main projects, namely the statistical Development Programme for Africa (SDPAi , financed by TJNPP, and the Regional Advisory Service in Demographic Statistics {F A.SDS) , financed by UNFPA. However , such activities were also- undertaken wirhin the framework of two other projects, namely the

nwnp /IP.KO fF-CK oro -i^rt; on Data Collection related to Development prf,«v?-i-,p!; p-^rS AiA- plov? in Af rio-i and the Census Training

Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa, financed by UMDP and

UNFPA/Government of Canada respectively. There is also another

project in demographic statistics which is limited to the member countries of the "Union douaniere et eeonomique de 1!Afrique

o Th^ -c-DP2i rsi"o"i""t provides support to activities undertaken within the framework of the Statistical Training Programme for Africa (STPAJ , the African Household Survey Capability Programme

iaw.qr.p's , r.hp development of national accounts and basic economic

statistics and the development of statistical data bases.

9, The RASBS nro-iect is intended to assist African countries

to build up the capability for carrying out population censuses

and demographic surveys and establishing viable civil registra tion systems and vital statistics collection, The

related r-rojenr. on Census Training Programme for Sub-Saharan

Africa aims at making the countries of the region self-reliant in

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10 ^^ ^^Q^^gr^^rii-. of i".He statistical capacities of the SCA jnpwVpr. p^t^c jc included a-ono the activities undertaken within the framework of the project "Data Collection related to

Development Proarammes and Aid Flows in Africa". This issue will be discussed under a separate item of the agenda for the Joint

Corsference. It is therefore proposed not to make a full report on it in the oresent document -

11. The project ''Statistical Development Programme for Africa f qr,p^> 1! i<5 th"" v-P^ni f of fh? ^ercin-T, a?= from 1 July 1987 , of

activities undertaken previously under three separate projects, t^ty^Iv the African Household Survey Cap^bilicy Programme (AHSCP) ,

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„vr,^,rir.4 ^^ ,~-p tb- o*-^r-i crirsi TrpiniPi-rr Programme for Africa ,'oirpj1, xnci fhf= pe-5-jcf3n."p to Lea^t Developed and Newly

Independent Countries in the field of National Accounts. The

j_q!,,,p r-.f s^qti^tlcai data ba??e development has been added later

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12. In tiie ilx-'l-v. - -. -1 -u ^.-h'O-*•{ ?-u". v-y ^ - -ne post of household

survey specialist any one post ^t statistical training adviser/survey special 13 c v'gi e av..-!i.Lair-ie to i. en.^er advisor>

services to member States under the SD?A project. However, the International Labour ^gcnisati^n -ILO) continued to provide one post of regional adviser i n. household surveys in support of the AHSCP programme. The port of data processing specialist provided by the Government of rhe Federal Republic of Germany was phased out in June 1988 upon the expiration of the relevant bilateral co-operation a-" ■ ' ■ ' !"CA, ,*'':-- -■ - .: r technical,- and backstopping n-iasio....' .,-* . .^-."ort.:.;^^ ■;-:> lu /.member countries during the bienr-ium 1983-1^83 in the area of household surveys, excluding the missions 'undertaken in the field of demographic

surveys by the team of t-he Regional Advisory Service in

Demographic Statistic: '■ ■-■ .-.'-■'■■ .:) finnnced Dy UNFFA.

13. A bilingual working group meeting on household surveys

was organized in^Ao^i^ Ab~ba from 1P--20 October 1989. It was

attended by experts frnr-. ?1 -ember States of ECA. The working

group considered - ~-r.c<r^ ? = report on the AHSCP and discussed issues relating to ?:^.:r:?: . es and problem.s of selected surveys in Africa in the "• 9°.0- ■■oi.;seVxo1.d survey data analysis and

applications and co-ordination of AHSCP with other programmes of household surveys. T"-^ report of this working group is being

submitted to the Toin.t ~~^f'.-r.= -c^ under another agenda item.

14. In the area oz statistical training, within the framework

were undertaken by the two statistical training advisers under

the SDPA project 'o V-o'-.t^-: CY-\d, H-O.lr Nigeria, Sao Toine and

Princif-e and wi th tii~- pui'po.se •'■■! a3si■-- „■ 1113 'cnc36 countr les in the implementation of their in-service training programmes or middle level training programmes at national level. Some of the missions concentrated cr\ the evaluation of the training programme while others assisced in the development of a project document for donor financing. The two statistical training advisers also provided teaching .support to STPA centres, national statistical offices in-service training programmes and middle level statistical trai"'1 "-1 r~r L " ^ nat: -v -': leve1. The STPA centre

which was viri :■--. :. r ■ .-.- our;-;-? --.<? the Eastern Africa

Statistical Training Centre (EASTCj in 1988 and 1989. National statistical offices and middle level statistical training centres at national level which >jere visited were those of Sierra Leone (1988 and 1939), Cr--.-., : 'l?0?) and ^vrw-Jl. In addition other staff of the Etmtm?1":1 ™ v Division 33- i"ted in teaching at the

"Institut africain ec :naurici3n de 3; :itistiaue et d'economie

appliquee" (IAMFEA) ,- Kigali, Rwanda., Two missions were fielded in 1988 and two in 198^ fo-? tvi:7 purpose.

15. As part of the ^uotcrt to the EASTC one training adviser

joined a Tanzania Oov^rnment delegation during its visit to

Zambia and Zimbabwe. The ruroose oc the mission was to seek a

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Centre and to Seek "' COir^it^^nt fr.-r aA. rrrH t.-\ nnTrt ■fTi-nrH nrr r>T.-!i -> t1*-

requests to international agencies for the development "and

expansion of the centre.

16. Two seminars for trainers involved in middle level in- service statistical training were organised,- one for French- speaking African countries in Abidjan,. Cote df Ivoire, from 24-38

October 1988 and the o^her for English-speaking countries of the

region in Harare , L '.-r^r Lwe r :"rom 21 -:":5 November 1 "38 , ^Iso _ ths Sixth biennium meeting of Directors of Centres participating in

STPA was held in Addis Ababa from 4-3 December 1939. The report

of this meeting is also being submitted to the -.Joint: Conference

under a separate agenda item.

17. Five new fellowships for training of trainers were awarded in 1988. One two year fellowship was awarded to a lecturer from the National University of Lesotho; one two year fellowship to a lecturer from the "Ecole nationale superieure de statisticrue et

d'economie appliquee (EMSEA)ppq , Abidjan,djan, Cote d'Ivoire; oCote dIvoire; one s^ven_{dIvoire; one}

month fellowship to a lecturer from EASTC; and two fellowships., one for two year and another for one year to lecturers from the Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (ISAE), Kampala, Uganda. Two visiting lecturers were also provided in 1^8-^ and

1989 to ISAE. one for two months and the other for six weeks to

teach statistical methods.

18. Within the iJrainework ,:r one 3y==c±ai d^siscance to Portuguese-speaking African countries in the field of statistical training, a second meeting of representatives of the countries of the group was organized in Luxembourg in February 1988, jointly

with i"hi= St-p f -j «=+■ i cr "! Offi pp nf t-H« r,.*-«^^.-,», /-'^ww,,« ■; +■ -; „ „ t cnirr1 \

A third meeting was organized in Lisbon h-.v -t-Vi^ T?gr a^n^ tb"

Government of Portugal in November 1988 and one SCA Statistical

Training Adviser participated in the meeting. All conditions

seem to be met for the opening in 1990 of the Bissau middle level

statistical training centre for nationals of Guinea Bissau, Cape

Verde and Sao Tome and Principe anri the Lisbon Centre (CESD-

Lisbon) for trai nint,- professional level stacisticirns for all the

Portuguese-speaking African countries.

19. In the area of economic statistics about 20 technical advisory missions were fielded in 12 African countries. The missions were tc develop the basic economic statistics of the countries concerned., compile national accounts, provide on-the- job training and build up national capability and self-reliance m the production, application and dissemination of basic economic data designed i:o meet the needs of current rsolic""

concerns. Follow-up missions and feed-backs reveal that recommendations and suggestions for improvements made during the

advisory missions h?_vc, in general, been implemented by the

countries concerned. However, it should be noted that a high

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turn-over of staff still exists in many African statistical services,. thus impeding the progress of the programme objective

of self-reliance.

20. During the biennium, activities in the area of industrial statistics continued to focus on assistance to countries in setting up integrated systems of industrial statistics within the

framework of international recommendations.

21. Two working group meetings (one for English-speaking^and the other for French-speaking African countries), on improving the

basic economic statistics required for planning purposes were

held simultaneously at ECA Headquarters, Addis Ababa, in September 1988. The working groups discussed, inter alia:

(a) basic economic data required for general assessment of the economy and planning; (b) the use of the UN system of national accounts as a tool for data collection for development planning;

(c) relationship of national accounts developemnt to planning;

and (d) the uses of micro computers in the preparation of national accounts. The meetings were attended by representatives of the, following member States: Angola, Benin,- Burundi,

Cameroon, Central African Republic, Cote d1Ivoire, Egypt,

Equatorial Guinea,- Ethiopia.. Guinea, Liberia,- Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria,- Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Swaziland,

Tanzania, Togo, Zaire, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

22. In the area of statistical data base, one mission was

undertaken to Congo to assist the Government in installing the PADIS-STAT data base on the HP 3000 computer of the national statistical office (CNSEE) and in training of personnel. Also a training seminar on the use of software packages in statistical computing for French-speaking Government statisticians and

planners was organized in February 19S9. The seminar was attended by representatives of the following countries: Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Gabon.. Guinea, Morocco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal and Zaire. -

B- RASPS and related projects

23. The Regional Advisory Service in Demographic Statistics

(RASDS), which is financed by the United Nations Population Fund

(UNFPA), comprises eight regional advisers during the biennium

1988-1989. Two of these posts (sampling adviser and second post of data processing adviser) are new and have been filled only as

from July/August 1989. The long-range objective of the RASDS is

to assist African countries to build up the capability for

carrying out population censuses and demographic surveys and

establishing viable and reliable civil registration systems and

related activities with little or no external technical

assistance.

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24. During the period under review, about 90 advisory missions

were carried out to 35 member States. Nineteen of these were

related to assistance on organization, planning and conduct of population and housing censuses and demographic surveys, 24 on census cartographic activities, 19 on census data processing, 12 on development and improvement of civil registration systems and

vital statistics, 14 on basic needs assessment and programme

formulation and two in sampling. The majority of these missions

were fielded at the request of governments or UNFPA

representatives. Others were initiated by EGA to monitor the progress made in census and survey activities in the various

countries and to provide relevant assistance.

25. Within the framework Programme for Sub-Saharan Afri

f the project "Census Training

g ica", financed by the Government of

Canada through UNFPA, 14 national training courses were organised during the biennium 1988-1989 seven in English-speaking, five in French-speaking and two in Portuguese-speaking countries. Six of the courses were on census organization. These were conducted in Lagos, Nigeria, from 7 to 29 April 1988; in Cotonou, Benin,

from 3 to 21 October 1988; in Kampala, Uganda, from 22 October to

6 November 1988; in Praia, Cape Verde, from 9 May to 3 June 1989;

in Maputo, Mozambique, from 11 to 25 September 19S9 and in

Kigali, Rwanda, from 3 to 20 October 1989. The courses were by a total of 110 national statistical/census offices statisticians and planners from other ministries. The on census data processing and were from 11 to 24 April 1988; Yaounde, 16 April 1988; Bangui, Central Africa June 1989; Mauritius from 14 February

to 10 March 1989; Freetown, Sierra Leone, from 3 to 21 July 1989;

Niamey, Niger, from 13 November to 6 December 1989; Nairobi,

Kenya,' from 13 November to 2 December 1989; and Addis Ababa,

Ethiopia,- from 11 to 29 December 1989, A total of 125 trainees

staff and remaining organized Cameroon, Republic,

8 courses were

in Accra,. Ghana from 22 March to from 24 May to 9 town, from 13 3 Novembe from

attended these courses.

26. Two sub-regional workshops on census cartography were also conducted during the period under review. The first workshop was organized for French-speaking Eastern and Central African countries in Kigali, Rwanda, from 28 March to 3 April 1988. The

following 7 countries were represented in the workshop: Burundi, Central African Republic, Comoros, Gabon, Madagascar, Rwanda and

Sao Tome and Principe. The other workshop was organized for

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English-speaking eastern and southern African countries in Nairobi, Kenya, from 8 to 19 May 19S9. It was attended by senior

professional staff of statistical/census offices from Botswana,

Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Somalia,

Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

27. EGA continued to be the executing agency for the Technical

Co-operation Project in Central Africa (UDEAC/DEP) in the field

of demographic and social statistics data collection, processing

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30. In the field of environment statistics one advisory mission was carried out to assess the feasibility of establishing this new area within the OPO of Botswana (1983). The mission found that some of t he rjroundwork . no" ably 3n environmenta 1 assessment had been carried ^u.t and that wide interest existed within

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setting up of ^he Unit.

31. Due to lack of funds a "soond. advisorv mission foreseen in the work loroaramme 19?S-1989 could not be carried out.

IV. ECA TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IN DEMOGRAPHY

32 THp primjl n *■ i nn V) ; ■'.ri ci H r-.n n.-f p^ 3. r1 o n r -' r. i] ^ H f O i"j=r"^ ^ V" fjirHq

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of five projects. Two of th^s^ projects, the Regional Demographic Advisory Services ond the Population Information M e t wo r k for Africa (P OPIN) a r e b a s ed i n th 3 Divi s i on, wh i1s t the other three are based .1 n A c c r a (G h a n a) , Y a o u n d e (Cameroon) and Bamako (Ma 1 i i 1 short aooount of r.he technical assistanoe activities of each rrc^pct dur^Ti-T ths period 19S8-19R9 is given below:

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33. The ~ain obisctives ot the ^scrional Demooraohic Advisory

evalua tin-" and analysing data fro™ popular ion censuses, surveys

TJ 4 __,

population vsriabi es into deve I rp^enr r-1 anr-i^ng and policy formulation; and finally in assisting in the training in

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Sub-regional workshops in d:ita evaluation and analysis for both Anglophone and Francophone country"s and national workshops on census d.at.3 analysis in both Anglophone arid

.^4. Three rerricnal -"'d vipers (two Analophone and one

, Ghana

TC pipe finf.-r- '. rii]^;"i ■!" r-. r. •-r''.;"; .-:.:~ ri ^ rr- n ■' T T Pi I"-- ?l ~L ■"! '^l"3in.inCf t-O

nationals of the Rngli sh speaking African countries. It also organized workshops on dnta evaluation and analysis (August 1988) in collaboration wi^h ECA and en t"" Stpti-tical Analysis n^Tno.Tr^nh'i ." H?.fr: ■ H.-!ve™h?r — Ti ^ f (= rr: h ^ j- 1 9 ?. R ! in CO I" aboratlOP. Wi tb " Tnfrrnarir'r'3l P t z> f -i ^ +- i f r> 1 T yt ^ t- I r 'j f- r-- ! T ° ]"! T- ~3" SD

With

HsT!in.TVS^h;-r'', i r* ;i ^ rj 1 r~i T; h .^ n p A f T" 1 C S . A

colloquim. on the impact of family planning programmes in sub- Saharan Africa vas also organised in April 1989.

"JC, Thr mmH^r-e: n* qfiiHpifn q-^r'T_rrprl intf: PJPS wprp. ?J for

this m a p^i-i-np -j—i /^j f-i-j-j-. p ^ y- "j cut p.riH f-}-jp-. ^t'udents for the M.

Phi 1. oonrsp -i n J^nuar" l^B'^. Therp were three students doing j-v. ^ ph n r-r\\:T^^i Jv, nrf.-,Kpy T_ Q A R 43 risw M . A . S t '^dent-S WG2TS 3f^m"i r't'prl * nr:rl T^jr1. n^tif M "°h"i "1 ^ hi.^?r t" e: ^7~rr admitted in i

E/SCA/PSD.6/5

37. The ECA secretariat continued to be responsible for the management of RIPS. A meeting of the Governing Council was held i n J anuary 198 8. UNFPA con t inued to be the tha i n sourc e of funding, providing US$736,300 in 1988 and US$712,300 in 1989.

recherche d e m o graphinues (IFORD)

X aO L-tII■-ic- ,

38. IFORD continued to provide demographic training to nationals of the French-speaking African countries. The main programme continued to be the two year course leading to the Dir-lo^a in d^^oarrsnhv, students are now admitted sve.ry other year rather than annually. In 1989, 3"* ^f'^=nts who started their course in 198"? were awarded the diploma. In the same year 32 students from 16 countries were admitted to the two year course.

39. I "F O F p c o n t i n u e s t o o r o a. n i z e t h e o n e '.7 ear i n t r o d u c t o r y course into research, for araduates of the diploma course. Two students were admitted for this course in 1987 and 1989. A Training workshop on the statistical analysis of fertility was held in October 19 89 in collaborati on with the International

Sta^istion] Institute {!£!■

— 0 The F-CA secretariat continued to be responsible for the m a n ^ ~ " — ent of IF OF ^ and o r ^ a n i 2 c ^ a ™ - e t i n o of its Govsrnino Council in March 198 8 . Another meeting of the Council was held in Ar-ril 1989 in A^ois Abana. UNFPA continued to be the main source of f undincr and provided US$343,000 in 1988 and US$871,000

^- Centre for Studies and Research on Population for Development (CKRPOD) Bamako, Mali

dj ^ The for-er socin-E^ono^ic and n^^nar-^ohic Unit (USED) of t.he In^ti t-.r.f. dr^ ?.-ahel / CTL-^Ss- wa= converted into CERPOD with effect from. 25 -Tc-nuarv 1988. The first five year work programme r;f- fpD ppri .-'.".rprc; q +■ 11 (^ -•- p: r^ p. ^ r\ ■*■ p -- ^ n y s"* Y\ 11" " i " ^ " " " C "i en t~ "i f "i C information (data bank), technical assistance to Sahelian countries and international fc! entif ir* co-operation . CERPOD has continued to take an active role 1n the population information system (POpri-J} of th~ ECA Population Divi =ion,

42, ECA c o n t i nued to b e the e xe c u t i ng agency for funds

^■y-r-.w^ ri nr\ V-,v ITM^PJx m^,-.qe aT'.oi.int'.ar! r r\ TI ,c- ?■ 0 .S f- 00^! ir, 1*^88

■&_ / tj r * / p <* r. f. / S

C' Th^ cr.r.i;iaf inn Triforr^ririri M~-twork for Africa fPOPIN)

d3. popin j ;■= a. re"ion^l ns^work linking institutions and organizations connected with population information collection, documentation and dissemi nation on Africa. It serves as a oharne1 for di sseminat ing such inf ormat ion to government leaders a nd o f f i o d n I s. r e s e n r r_ h e r ^ ™ v d i 5 , etc.

-. — r-s-r.^-i n.Tr-1 n.-r tttti t- r-f pqp]*j ^s located in the EGA ttco210 noo in 19BS and US*47B . 7■*?■''■

O(-.r,Mi ^^i n-n n-i v~i ^"i ^" -ind r"-"1^^ T.-e^ fijrrir; fro™ TJMFPA amounting to in 1^89 .

4R Thr= m^inr n.~ t-1 it i t- -i r= <; unH prt- a ken bv the Co~ordina ting Unit f c,r- t-bc 19SR-R9 bienni 'im were ^s f oil ows :

(a) The creation of a POPIM-Africa Technical Working Group (PAT) to advise on technical operational issues of POPIM-Africa.

(b) A sensitisation seminar for mass media agencies was

(c) Preparation of the Country bibliography series: one t~ n ". " r o d u c e d o n G h a n a .

(d) The identification of potential National Participating rnf r,r.r«34- j_rsn rcr,i-rcq (NPic'i was pursusd, Rwanda, Tanzania and Nigeria were visited for the formulation, refcrmul"ion of project documents for the establishment of NPICs.

• r- *! x wnrlri r.a c Y c-1' — f; -■ r- rh= Hi c^P^^p.^H OR and D1 f f U S i O n O f Population Information «PA>TTD) was created. It

V. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IN INFORMATION SCIENCE

46, The ECA Pan African Development Information System

fPADIP) for-erlv pan African Documentation and. Information

c.,qt.p™? j_r{ r.he ™'"=^or source in Africa for technical assistance in information science. The objectives of PADIS' technical assistance a r e *

- To assist African states in strengthening national

"prsa.'-ir i^^ f r.r col 1 ection , storage and utilisation of data

on' development through advisory services, training and

amono Afrlcan member States;

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- To promote the improvement of information infrastructure in African member States in order to strengthen

bibliographic control of national development information

output;

- To train information specialists at national, sub-regional and regional levels in order to upgrade skills and

introduce modern methods of information handling;

- To promote the utilization of common norms and standards

of information handling in the region in order to ensure compatibility with international information systems.

47. PADIS1 funds for technical assistance come from a variety of sources. During the biennium it received funding for its

technical assistance activities on behalf of member States from (a) the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): three projects, viz., PADIS Phase III (RAF/36/053), Establishment of a data bank and information service for the Organization for the Management of the Kagera River Basin (RAF/88/125) and participation of North African Countries in PADIS (RAF/88/012);

(b) the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM):

Expert Group Meeting on the Development of a Data Bank on Women and Development; (c) International Development Research Centre (Canada): PADIS Training Activities and Regional Seminar on Information and Informatics Policies in Africa; (d) the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR): Study Tour on the Management of Scientific, Technological and Socio-economic Information Systems and Networks and (e) Ford Foundation: Support for Participants to the Expert Group Meeting on Women and Development. Total funds for technical assistance from these sources during 1983-1989 were US$2,302,635. The breakdown by project appears in Annex I.

4S. The major categories for PADIS' assistance to member States are training, including fellowships and internships, and advisory services. Virtually all PADIS1 activities are of a technical assistance nature and are described fully in the document "Report on PADIS activities in 1988-1989, examination of approved work programme (1992-1993) and Medium-Term Plan 1992- 1997" (E/ECA/PSD.6/26). Thus, in order to avoid repetition, these activities will only be outlined here in a summary form.

49. Training activities during the biennium included the holding of national level training courses for staff of PADIS national participating centres; subregional training courses in computerized documentation techniques; training courses in management of documentation and information centres; and the granting of fellowships and internships.

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50. The training courses were as follows: 12 national level courses, including 8 in computerized bibliographic and statistical data base management techniques and 4 in specialized subjects (such as publication of data base contents, management of documentation and information centres and utilization of specific software).. at the request of member States. Countries which benefited from these were Botswana,. Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Malawi, Niger, Seychelles, Swaziland, Togo and Zambia.

51. Beneficiary countries of seven subregional training courses, three regional seminars and training courses,- including one study tour were 35, viz.: Algeria, Angola,. Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comores, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia,. Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco,. Mozambique,. Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zairs,. Zambia and Zimbabwe. Six countries benefited from fellowships and internships at PADIS: Cameroon, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Niger and Togo. The total number of individuals trained in these exercises was 264.

52. During the period PADIS fielded 10 advisory missions to member States (Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe) and 5 to institutional participating centres (sub-regional and regional development institutions with significant documentation and information activities). The topics included assessment of needs in information and documentation, formulation of information policies and plans, design of national/sectoral information

systems; choice of information technologies, identification of

lead institutions and establishment of subregional centres.

53. PADIS also undertook other technical co-operation activities on topics related to development information. Data base and information exchanges, in the form of manual inputs or printouts, diskettes and magnetic tapes took place between PADIS

and 28 countries, namely: Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina

Faso, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Congo, Egypt,

Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Malawi,

Mauritius, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo,. Uganda, Zaire and Zambia.

VI. CONCLUSIONS

54. As shown in the brief report which has just been given, the

ECA technical assistance in planning,- statistics, demography and

information sciences during the period 1988-1989 continued to

focus on building up national capacities in these fields so that

the member Countries will be less dependent on external technical

assistance and will become self-reliant within a reasonable

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period of tine. This assistance also covered new areas such as the African Alternative Framework of Structural Adjustment

Programmes for Socio-economic Recovery and Transformation and the

Data Collection related to Development Programmes and Aid Flows

in Africa.

55. ECA will endeavour to respond favourably to requests for assistance from its member States within the limits of the

resources available. It should be pointed out in this connection

that requests for advisory missions should be sent, preferably through the local UNPP offices, at least two months in advance in

order to facilitate the administrative and technical arrangements for the missions.

5

6. The issue of training in the fields of planning, statistics, demography and information sciences will continue to receive high

priority in the ECA technical assistance. To this end, support

will continue to be given to the relevant training institutions in Africa, Training workshop and seminars in selected areas of interest will be organized. Due attention will also be paid to the on-the-job training of local staff during missions to

57. Finally,. efforts will continue to be made to ensure appropriate co-ordination of technical assistance activities in the above fields at the regional and sub-regional levels.

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ANNEX II E/ECA/PSD.6/5

LIST OF REGIONAL ADVISERS IN POST DURING THE PERIOD

Programme/Post Duty Entry

Description station on duty Departure

1. Socio-Econorr;ic Research

and Planning Division

(SEEPD"'

(i) O.Teriba (Nigeria) Regional Adviser Addis September July

m Socio-Economic Ababa 1985 1989

Surveys and Analysis 2. Statistics

(i) E.A.Colecraft RASDS; Chief Ad-cMs j.,u- In fGhan5) Technical Adviser, Ababa 1978 post

Demographic Statist"! f!S ■'Cj_\ri 1 Registration

(English-speaking

(ii) Hamady Sow (Mali) RASDS; Regional Niamey Julv t«

Adviser in. MULPOC 1980 post

Df=rf!om"sr>h"i r>

Statistics (French- speaking countries)

(iii) Jean-Marc Hie RASDS; Regional Addis Mprch

(Cameroon) Adviser in Data Ababa 1985 post

Processing

(iv) Oumar Bocoum RASDS; Rsgi-nal Add15 January m

Vliw ' Adviser in Census Ababa 19S3 post- Car tograr-hv

(French-speaking"

c o n n t r i e ,s)

(v) U Tripathi RASDS; Regional Addis September In

j15' Adviser in Census Ababa 19S6 po-t

Cartography

(English-speaking

countries)

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(vi) Abdou-Kari* Diop (Senegal)

(vii) Zewdie Gebeyehu (Ethiopia)

(viii) J.O. Onseisbe (Kenya)

(Tunisia)

RASDS;

Advise

'Frenc c o u n t r

p 7i c ri c -

Regio r in C ration h-spea ies)

Regio

r t n P

J- V L 1

king

nal

Yaounde MULPOC

Addis Ababa

Septe 1981

July 1989

™ber Dec.

1939

In post

countri ss)

RASDS• Regional Adviser in Sampling

(Knglish-speaki countries)

fiurvsy Srsriali

ng

st,.

Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa

August 1989

December 1987

In post

In post Chief Technical

<x) R.J. Pe^ber (Australia)

(xi) H.E. Girkes (Fed.Republic

(xii) L. Mbong-wbong (Cameroon)

(xiii) T.C. Jones

(United Kingdom)

ILO/ECA Regie Adviser in Household Sur

Iticrp

Specialist in nal

v^y?;

Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa

January 1986

May 19S6 Processing, AHSC?

(under b i1a t e r a1 co-operation

-.■ V- V.t IJ. '.- r^l

(UN regular pro^rait!"^ of technical co-operation

In post

June 1988

the

SPPA Ac co Spec

Regi in N

FRG Government)

; National unt?

i a 1 i s t

onal Adviser at iona1

Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa

September 1987

July 1985

In post

Feb.

1988

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(xiv) K.C. Wang (United Kingdom!

(xv) K.K. Eockor (Togo)

(xvi) E.E. Ching'anda

\ ij rs J. d. if i. /

(xvii) J. Tayo

Ixvii i)A. Mayouya (Congo)

Regional Adviser Addis in National Ababa Accounts (UN

regular programme of technical co-opsration)

SDPA; Statistical Addis Training Adviser Ababa

\£ i. vii'—Vi .;iicar,j.hg

countries)

SDPA; -Statistical Addis Training Adviser/ Ababa household survey

specialist

(English-speaking countries)

UDEAC/DEP, Chief Bangui Technical Adviser

UDEAC/DEP; Expert Bangui in D?.™o<rrsnhic

i

November 1989

January 19-23

August 19S4

In post

July 1989

November 1989

July 19-85

In post

In post

3. Population

(i) K.V. Raaachandran Regional (India)

(ii) Pierre Fokom.

(Cameroon)

Addis Demographic Ababa Adviser (English-

speaking countries)

Regional Addis

Demographic Ababa Adviser (French-

speaking countries) (iii) Moulie A. Gibril Region

{The Gambia)

Addis Demographic Ababa Adviser (English-

speaking countries)

September 1981

June 1983

May 1987

In post

In post

In post

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ABBREVIATIONS

RASDS: Regional Advisory Service in Demographic Statistics

SDPA: Statistical Development Programme for Africa AHSCP: African Household Survey Capability Programme

UDEAC/DEP: Union douaniere et economique de 1'Afrique centrale/Departemsnt pour les etudes de population