ECCAS Seeks Strategy for Statistical Dev’t
By Christopher JATOR, Cameroon Tribune, 08-05-2014
Bringing together statistical information of member States will help donor agencies know what projects to be funded.
Bringing together statistical information of member States will help donor agencies know what projects to be funded.
Having a
common base for statistical information from all member States of the
Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) cannot be over
emphasised. If we consider that donor agencies lack such important
information on a regional level and are most often left with the
difficult task of deciding what projects to offer technical and
financial support, then the regional meeting of statisticians going on
at the Sawa Hotel in Douala is absolutely necessary.
From
May 6 to 9, general managers of National Institutes of Statistics of
ECCAS member States, regional and continental statistical actors,
international institutions (ADB, ECCAS, CEMAC, etc), with the help of
consultants, will elaborate a coherent strategic vision of statistical
development for the region to serve as a reference for all actions.
The
statistical information will include sectors such as trade,
infrastructure, agriculture, education, health, energy, environment,
transport, economy, population, etc. The opening ceremony was presided
over by Ludovic Ngwba, Secretary General at the Littoral Governor’s
Office.
Luc
Mbong Mbong, Statistician-in-Chief for the African Development Bank
(ADB) and African Development Fund (ADF), said at the opening ceremony
that the meeting falls within the Support Programme to Strengthen
Institutional Capacity in the ECCAS funded by the ADB. He added that the
ADB is supporting ECCAS in designing regional statistical data, which
can be very useful for funding agencies to know what to support.
“This
strategy allows for a redefinition of the role ECCAS should play within
the framework of the initiatives launched at the level of the continent
and the world,” said Crispin Jaime Rondo Sangale of ECCAS.
Also,
during the 17th ordinary session held in Kampala, Uganda, in July 25,
2010, the Executive Board of the African Union adopted the decision to
have in place an African chart of statistics and strategy for the
harmonisation of statistics in Africa (SHaSA). Regional economic
communities (REC) and ECCAS were chosen to coordinate and harmonise the
statistical initiatives in Africa. Happily, ECCAS has some data from
CEMAC which will be useful as a starting pointing of action for the
region.
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