State of Palestine

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

UNSD DFID Project on National Development Indicators

October, 2014

State of Palestine

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

• Palestine has joined the project late 2012.

• PCBS formulates special technical team to follow up our contribution in this project, the team gathered statisticians as well as IT experts .

• PCBS vision was to use techniques to support the statistical monitoring system.

The Kick off

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Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

Technical support and capacity building

1st one: 18-21 June 2012 aimed to:

Two technical missions

• Introduce the project of country data• Check the link between the project and PCBS planned activities• Discuss methods of data dissemination and platforms for presenting data, including PalInfo• Go through existing data discrepancies between national and international estimates for MDG indicators

State of Palestine

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

• Palestine became the sixth country (out of 11 countries)

2nd one: 06-09 January 2013 aimed to :

Technical support and capacity building

•Upload DevInfo 7.0 for PCBS

•Upload database of MDGs indicators

•Introduce PCBS PalInfo users

•Do the mapping between PalInfo and Check the link between the project and SDMX Registry

•Do the mapping between PalInfo and Check the link between the project and SDMX Registry

•As a result, disseminate Palestine MDGs data on the web of the project

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Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

• 1st workshop, 18-22 March 2013-Bangkok: Country Data – Technologies for Data Exchange Version 1.3

• 2nd workshop, 29 July-2 August 2013 Addis Ababa:Sharing Best Practices in the Dissemination of National Development Indicators.

• 4th workshop, 21-25 April 2014: Building better dissemination systems for national development indicators.

• 3rd workshop, 25-29 November 2013-Nairobi: SDMX for Development Indicators.

Technical support and capacity building

Four regional training workshops:

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Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

Progress made so far

• Activation of Pal Info version 7 on the PCBS website (English and Arabic)

• Disseminate MDGs data for the state of Palestine on the website of the project.

• The last update for Palestine MDGs data on the website of the project refers to October 2013 to cover the data of the year 2012.

• Data of 2013 will be updated in the fourth quarter of 2014. Providing the UNSD-DFID project with Palestine monitoring indicators to check the possibility of being part of the country data of the project.

State of Palestine

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

Impact, achievements of the project at the national level

• For the first time, national and international MDGs data presented on the same web.• The project allows utilizing the DevInfo software

techniques “SDMX registry• Increase the experience/knowledge of SDMX tools• Improve the mechanisms of updating the data from other

sources• PCBS expanded the team of the project to transferring the

knowledge and following up the developments of such theme.

State of Palestine

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

Impact, achievements of the project at the national level

• PCBS was in contact with UNICEF for following up the features of Devinfo• PCBS did our local context translation for XML files to

Arabic• PCBS provided Yemen CSO of the Arabic files

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Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

PCBS status regard the participation in the project

• The project succeeded to disseminate the national and international MDGs data and metadata in a common schema, which satisfied PCBS and meet our documentation and dissemination policy • The knowledge and experience gained by PCBS staff on

SDMX registry contributed in our capacity building in this regard• The project provide the opportunity for exchange the

expertise with other country participants, in addition to improve and enhance the capacity on dissemination the statistical data based on the international standards

State of Palestine

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

Challenges

• The possibility of expanding the country data to cover Palestine monitoring indicators; in addition to MDGs indicators.• The required needs for linking and integration the

metadata with the statistical data for all PCBS indicators • For the post 2015 agenda (SDGs), to start with

building the SDMX registry for the indicators from early stage of the period

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Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/default.aspx

State of Palestine

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

http://www.pcbs.gov.ps:8821/Palinfo7.1/libraries/aspx/home.aspx

State of Palestine

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/NSMS/default.aspx?px_language=en

State of Palestine

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/http://www.pcbs.gov.ps:8821/Palinfo7.1/libraries/aspx/home.aspxhttp://www.pcbs.gov.ps/nsms/default.aspx?px_language-en

Links

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