Guide to statistics in European Commission development cooperation :2023 edition

The “Guide to statistics in European Commission development cooperation” provides extensive information on statistics in development cooperation, presenting key international initiatives supporting partner countries in building sustainable statistical systems that produce quality statistics. The Guide explains the ‘statistical machinery’, covering the organisation, functioning and products of national statistical systems, as well as key international quality frameworks and principles. It presents tools for assessing statistical systems, strategic plans for developing statistical institutions, management of national projects/programmes in the field of statistics, training, as well as different aspects of statistical capacity building. It presents a summary of EU support to statistics, including issues such as requests for support to statistical capacity building, indicators to feed result-based management tools, monitoring development partnerships or assessing the performance of policies and interventions. The Guide can be used to identify and develop actions to support statistics and statistical indicators to define and follow-up cooperation programmes, including sector policies. It provides insight into the statistics in a wide range of specific sectors, from agriculture to social statistics, from sustainable development indicators to business statistics. The 2023 edition of the Guide compiled in one single publication the four volumes of the previous edition for easier reference and updated the chapters related to economic statistics. Finally, it should be noted that this is the sixth edition of the Guide, the previous ones being released in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017 and 2021.