Cabo Verde - Population and Reproductive Health Survey Project

The project is institutional support to the Government as it implements its Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy for 2012-2016, with a view to achieving inclusive economic growth and gender promotion. The project will contribute to national capacity-building in social statistics (statistics on population, health, education and the protection of women and children). This will enhance monitoring of the country's progress towards attainment of the Millennium Development Goals through the use of international norms and standards to collect, process, analyse and disseminate statistical indicators. The project comprises the following main components: (i) development of technical and methodological capacities related to the demographic and health indicators of the population in accordance with international best practices; (ii) data collection and analysis; (iii) promotion of tools that facilitate data dissemination and access; (iv) project coordination and management. Its implementation will contribute to the development of a critical mass of skills that will help to offset the shortage of human resources needed to conduct socio-demographic surveys, KAP studies and other specific surveys that the country will need in future, especially the preparation and execution of future population and reproductive health surveys.