| Component V : Applied research for the development of methodologies tailored to national statistics systems and for development policy formulation, monitoring and evaluation |
| General objective V : contributing to applied research for developing methodologies tailored to the capacities of national statistics systems of Member States as well as for development policy designg, monitoring and evaluation |
| Specific objectives/expected results |
Activities |
Objectively verifiable indicators |
Sources or means of verification |
Specific objective 12 : Pursue statistical methodological investments to capitalize survey findings in AFRISTAT supported States and to sustain various national arrangements
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| Outcome 12.0: Survey findings in States supported by AFRISTAT are capitalized and different arrangements sustained. |
12.0.1. Conduct of a diagnostic review on poverty profiles designed by Member States |
Diagnostic review and poverty profile prepared in Member States implemented |
Available at AFRISTAT and from stakeholders concerned |
| 12.0.2. Due diligence of methodology documents of each phase of the survey system 1.2.3. |
Evaluation report |
Available at AFRISTAT and from stakeholders concerned |
| 12.0.3. Conduct of a study on the technical conditions to extend the national scope of survey 1.2.3. |
Study report |
Available at AFRISTAT and from stakeholders concerned |
| 12.0.4. Establishment of an employment and informal sector panel based on data from phases 1 and 2 of the survey system 1.2.3. |
Panel established and operational |
Methodological documents on the employment and informal sector panel produced, published and disseminated |
| 12.0. 5. Conduct of a diagnostic review of existing survey systems |
Diagnostic review report |
Diagnostic review report available and widely disseminated |
| 12.0.6. Design of improved household survey tools (questionnaires, collection nomenclatures, analysis manuals, reconciliation manuals) mainstreaming gender, governance, democracy and subjective poverty, etc.). |
Tools designed |
Tools available at AFRISTAT and from all stakeholders concerned and used in analyses; |
Specific objective 13 : Conduct analysis and applied research activities based on household surveys, including forecasting issues
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| Outcome 13.0:Analysis and applied research centred on household surveys including forecasting are conducted |
13.0.1. Design of a methodology document on ex ante government policy impact assessment |
Methodology document designed |
Available at AFRISTAT and from stakeholders concerned |
| 13.0.2. Design of a methodology document on ex post social policy impact assessment |
Methodology document designed |
Available at AFRISTAT and from stakeholders concerned |
| 13.0.3. Design of a poverty analysis guidelines for the purpose of regional poverty profiling |
Methodology document designed |
Available at AFRISTAT and from stakeholders concerned |
| 13.0.4. Design of methodology toolkit to calculate budget expenditure coefficients by household surveys |
Methodology toolkit CD-ROM designed |
Methodology toolkit CD-ROM available and disseminated in all Member States |
| 13.0.5 Design of simplified and cost-effective agricultural survey methods to calculate farmland and crop yields |
Methodology document on calculating farmland and crop yields designed |
Document available at AFRISTAT and in Member States |
| 13.0.6. Conduct a comparative study for the choice of a crop yield forecasting method |
Methodology document on crop yield forecasting prepared |
Document available at AFRISTAT and in Member States |
| 13.0.7. Design and launching in a pilot country of an agricultural and food information system (indicators, calculation methods, data sources…) that responds to the needs of national accounting and food security |
Reference manual on the launching of an agricultural information system designed. |
Manual available at AFRISTAT and in other States |
| 13.0.8. Design of methodologies to develop medium-term macroeconomic models |
Methodology document on the development of medium-term macroeconomic models designed |
Document available at AFRISTAT and in Member States |
Specific objective 14: Conduct information-sharing and capitalize findings through publications, presentations, hosting of researchers, etc. for the purpose of integration into the scientific community (economic and statistics)
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| Outcome 14.0: Information-sharing and capitalization for the purpose of accessing the international scientific community (economics and statistics) are developed. |
14.0.1.Sharing of publications and papers |
Titles and number of publication and papers shared |
Correspondences |
| 14.0.2. Publication of articles in scientific journals |
Titles and number of articles published in scientific journals |
Journals concerned |
| 14.0.3. Exchange of researchers |
Number of visiting research teams and number of teams fielded |
AFRISTAT mission and progress reports |
| 14.0.4. Participation at international scientific meetings |
Number and nature of meetings |
Meeting report, papers presented |
| 14.0.5. Revitalizing the AFRISTAT publication series "Annuaires" (directories), " Méthodes" (methods) and "Etudes" (studies) |
Number of publications by series |
Dissemination and AFRISTAT progress reports |