This document discusses capacity building for modernizing institutions and governance. It outlines several issues to consider, including increasing demand and use of data, fostering strong institutions and data processes, effective governance structures, building partnerships, and establishing multi-year financing. Capacity building aims to enhance skills, abilities, resources, strengthen understandings and relationships, and address values and conditions to support sustainable development. It works best when locally driven with a long-term focus on building local capacities and ongoing learning through adaptation. Program activities that are results-oriented, cost-effective, support ownership, and stimulate regional interaction through peer learning are an effective means for capacity building.

1. Capacity building for modernization of institutions, governance
and business processes
(TA1.01)
Capacity building, what worked
17th January 2017
Oliver Chinganya
African Centre for Statistics, UNECA

2. Capacity Development, issues for consideration!!
• Promoting data to inform policies by putting more focus on
increasing demand and use of data;
• Fostering strong institutions and high-quality data processes;
• Pursuing effective governance structures by encouraging
independence, ownership, and empowerments;
• Building partnerships with other public and private data producers
and innovators; and
• Establishing multi-year financing using domestic, regional, and
international sources, based on transparent and collaborative donor
funding streams.

3. Capacity building
Capacity building refers to the approaches, strategies and methodologies used to improve
performance at the individual, organizational, network/sector or broader system level.
CB fundamentally is about change and transformation
Objectives
The objective of capacity building is to:
• enhance, or more effectively utilize, skills, abilities and resources;
• strengthen understandings and relationships; and
• address issues of values, attitudes, motivations and conditions in order to support sustainable
development
Principles
• broad-based participation and a locally driven agenda;
• building on local capacities;
• ongoing learning and adaptation;
• long term investments/process - is a set of interrelated actions and activities that are performed
to achieve a pre-specified set of products, results or services.

4. Capacity building through program activity
Definition – each activity (specific SDG) as a program
•A pre-defined activity – agreed objectives
•Committed to a specific result,
•Within a manageable timeframe
•A small group of countries (6-12) per activity
•Group workshops and bilateral visits
•Participants set and check benchmarks
•Identified resources

5. Type of assistance Expert visits Country
Groups
Hands on Results
driven
Short- term
mission (one off)
● o o
Long-term
assignment
(resident)
● ● o
Workshops/trainin
g seminars
● o
Program activity ● ● ● ●
Means of implementation & comparison of different
forms of support

6. Program activity effectiveness
• Results oriented
• Cost effective
• Supports ownership
• Stimulates regional interaction
• Well absorbed
• Helps build sustainable capacity
The “peer factor” can be stimulating

7. What worked !!
 Pre-defined path of capacity building
 Capacity building through Peer Review – country officials learning from each
other through sharing of experience and best practices
 GDP-waving of rebasing
 NSDS
 South-South cooperation, identification/recognizing countries with expertise
in specific, some examples
 Zambia provide support to other country on trade statistics using Eurotrace
 South Africa providing support in population and census
 Cabo Verde in mobile technology
Partnership and trust
Leadership and effective statistical legislation
Coordinated support through the NSDS

8. Thank you