Senegal Statistics for Results

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This small grant for the Statistics for Results Project for Senegal furthers the projects objective of better informing public and private sector decision-makers by filling gaps in the statistical knowledge base in the areas of employment, tourism, construction and services, as identified in the National Strategy for Development of Statistics (NSDS), as well as build capacity for the production and dissemination of reliable and relevant data. There are three main components that make up this project each with separate sub-components. The first component, Production of Statistics, has three sub-components that are carried out by National Agency for Statistics and Demography (ANSD): (i) Price statistics for production of services; (ii) construction statistics, and (iii) employment and labor market conditions statistics; and one sub-component that will be carried out by the Ministry of Tourism (with the support of ANSD). The second component, National School of Statistics and Economic Analysis (ENSAE) Senegal & Training, is a new institution and is still under development. Indeed, ENSAE-Senegal started its training activities in October 2008 with the installment of its progressive programs for initial and continuing training. The release of its first graduates was in June 2011. The main mission of ENSAE-Senegal is to meet the demand for training, development and innovation by the national statistical system and public and private companies. To achieve this, it is imperative that ENSAE-Senegal has a strategic plan that will define the major policies for its future development. Finally component three, Project coordination and Monitoring and Evaluation, shifts its approach of developing statistics from a supply-driven to a demand-driven one; it needs a tool to monitor the demand and feedbacks from users. The project will develop methodologies to establish a permanent mechanism to measure the evolution of the demand of statistics through an annual user satisfaction survey.