Support to PARIS21

This project aims to improve statistical capacity in developing countries and to reinforce results-based management as a way to increase development effectiveness and to monitor the UN-led 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals. The Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) was founded in1999 as a forum and network to promote influence and facilitate statistical capacity development and the better use of statistics. With the main objectives of reducing poverty and improving governance in developing countries PARIS21 advocates for the integration of reliable data in decision making and co-ordinates donor support to statistics.

The expected results of investing in PARIS21 include: (1) enhanced status of statistics and statistical systems at the national level; (2) wider use of official statistics by policy-makers businesses and civil society in policy-making; and (3) strengthened capacity of countries to monitor and measure their development progress.