Cooperation projects in developing and transition countries
Statistics Norway's main approach in capacity building is to work within long-term statistical cooperation with sister organizations. Statistics Norway is involved in long-term capacity building projects in several countries.
Kasakhstan
Cooperation with the Kazakhstan Agency on Statistics to strenghten the role of public statistics. The project covers economic statistics, administrative data and census-related subjects.
Kyrgyz Republic
Cooperation with National Statistics Committee to strengthen the institutional capacity and improve the statistical system. There are currently two parallel projects. The project focus is on electronic data collection and data analysis and dissemination. The second project concentrates on establishing an administrative register for legal units. This project is a cooperation with the Brønnøysund Register Centre and a number of Kyrgyz Public Agencies including the National Statistics Comittee.
Malawi
Institutional cooperation with the National Statistical Office and the Ministry of Economic Planning and Development in Malawi. The project started in 2004, and Statistics Norway has one long-term advisors stationed in Malawi.
Relevant publications
- Privatisation and liberalisation in the agricultural sector: An examination of processes and outcomes in three African cases (Norwegian university of life sciences)
- Gender assessment for Malawi
- The 2007/8 Malawi Budget - Macroeconomic implications. Documents 2007/14. ISSN 0805-9411
- User's guide for a macroeconomic model for Malawi
- A small macroeconomic model for Malawi
- Tracking resource and policy impact in Malawi. Incorporating Malawi poverty reduction strategy paper indicators, Millenium Development Goals and poverty monitoring across sectors
Moldova
The cooperation between the National Statistical Office in Moldova and Statistics Norway started in 2004. Institutional capacity building and developing social and economic statistics is on the agenda.
Mozambique
A joint Scandinavian cooperation project with the National Statistical Office in Mozambique is organized trough a Scandinavian Consortium consisting of Statistics Denmark, Statistics Sweden and Statistics Norway.
Relevant publications
Qatar
The Statistics Authority in Qatar and Statistics Norway are cooperating to improve statistics on demography, living conditions and the environment.
Southern Sudan
Statistics Norway cooperates with the Statistical Office of Southern Sudan on capacity building, long term planning and development of statistics.
Other international cooperations
Statistics Norway also has a program for exchange of young statisticians in association with Fredskorpset Norway. The program comprised cooperation with the national statistical bureaus of Malawi, Nicaragua, Southern Sudan and Uganda.
Finalised projects
- Albania
- Angola
- Eritrea
- Uganda
- Pakistan
- Belize
- Botswana
- Palestine
- China
- South Africa
- Sudan
Contact
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- irene.tuveng@ssb.no
- Phone
- +47 21 09 42 25
