The Board of the African Development Fund, the concessional
window of the African Development Bank Group, approved the grant on 14
February. The Statistics Development Support Project for Somalia will entail
providing technical assistance and training staff in the Somalia National
Bureau of Statistics and the Statistics Departments of Hirshabelle, Galmudug
and Jubaland States of Somalia.
Around 90 staff will receive training in collecting,
compiling, analyzing and disseminating statistical data. Other activities of
the project include the production of manuals and guidelines that comply with
international best practice. It will also establish or improve ICT facilities
at the National Bureau of Statistics and the Statistics Department of the
beneficiary states.
The project forms part of plans to rebuild institutional
capacity that was weakened in Somalia during several years of conflict. The
absence of sound economic and social data has hampered planning and constrained
investment in the country.
The aim is to make greater use of statistics, especially for
policy formulation, planning, decision-making, monitoring and evaluation. This
is in line with the Country's Ninth National Development Plan and the Somalia
National Strategy for the Development of Statistics.
The Statistics Development Support Project for Somalia is in
line with the African Development Bank's statistical capacity building efforts
in regional member countries, and aligns with the Bank Group's Strategy for
Addressing Fragility and Building Resilience in Africa.
It also fulfills one of the Bank's High 5 strategic
priorities, namely "Improving the quality of life of Africans." The
Bank's statistics department will monitor implementation of the project.
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