International Development Grant
Support to PARIS21
Project Number: CA-3-P001381003
Status: Closed
Country/Region: Unknown
Regional Focus:
Maximum Contribution: $1,000,000.00
Start Date: July 31, 2015
End Date: March 29, 2019
Duration: 3.7 years
Project Description
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.
Expected Results
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) enhanced status of statistics and statistical systems at the national level wider use of official statistics by policy-makers businesses and civil society in policy-making and strengthened the capacity of countries to monitor and measure their development progress; and (2) increased capacity of developing countries to manage their economies better and address social economic and environmental challenges as well as increase transparency and accountability through the use of evidence-based decision making.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of the end of the project (March 2019) include: (1) PARIS21 directly engaged with 94 countries and hundreds of global regional country-level and local partners to make data more useful and to increase usage; (2) PARIS21’s Programme of Work supported 22 fragile states 18 small island developing states and included 23 National Strategies for the Development of Statistics and Regional Strategies for the Development of Statistics related activities; (3) countries design and national statistical plans are more comprehensive participatory inclusive and operational and lead to timely relevant and disaggregated data; (4) adequate support to statistics increased well-aligned with those plans and well-coordinated among development partners and national authorities; (5) recommendations for data documentation and dissemination were adopted that permit full public access to statistics at all levels including poorest and most marginalised populations in an understandable way to citizens; (6) improved measurement of skills needed to use statistics effectively; and (7) innovation was promoted and integrated within national statistical systems which supported national statistical offices to be more responsive to rapidly changing data demands.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
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Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Department-Initiated