Multi Donor Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building III Parallel Trust Fund of TF070561

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"The first Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building {TFSCBI) was established in l 999 to strengthen the capacity of statistical systems in developing countries. lt is closely coordinated with the work of the Partnerships in Statistics for Development in the 21'1 Century {PARIS21) consortium and is part of the worldwide effort to reduce poverty by strengthening the evidence base for decision making at all levels. In conjunction with national governments, the aid programs of bilateral donors as well as other international initiatives, TFSCB provides a practical mechanism to achieve the PARIS21 vision, that is, to develop effective and efficient national statistical systems and to promote a culture of evidence-based decision-making. In line with the priorities identified by the contributing donors, the emphasis is on strengthening statistical systems in support of national poverty reduction strategies and other national and international development goals. In particular, TFSCB helps developing countries to set out a medium to long-term strategic vision for their statistical systems, to prepare programs and plans to put this vision into effect and then to implement specific capacity building projects. Since the establishment of TFSCB[ the demands ofresources have been substantially above the levels originally anticipated in the launch document. Therefore, the Donors contributed additional funding to a TFSCB II, and now to a third iteration of the Project, the TFSCBIII. TFSCBill will finance two main kinds of projects. The first type of project provides technical and financial support to the preparation of National Strategies for the Development of Statistics (NSDS). The purpose of an NSDS projects is to define the best national long-term strategy to develop an efficient and sustainable statistical system in the recipient country. NSDS should cover the entire statistical system and be adopted at the highest political level after having reached a consensus among all stakeholders of the statistical system. The second type of project financed under the TFSCBlll will be non-NSDS capacity building activities in specific priority sectors. These projects may target the implementation of one or more critical components of NSDS. Al! non-NSDS projects must be based on a formal assessment of the statistical system and must demonstrate how they will address the main capacity weaknesses. If a country does not have NSDS it is strongly encouraged to prepare one before applying for a non-NSDS project. In addition, TFSCBill may also finance program management and administration activities for the Trust Fund, including but not limited to, supporting any program governance arrangements and Trust Fund related meetings; planning and executing work plans and budgets; managing communications and conducting outreach; disseminating lessons learned; reporting on progress; and monitoring and evaluating the program."

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