Disclosable Version of the ISR - Economic Management and Statistics Development for Policy Making - P171777 - Sequence No : 03 (English)

The preparatory works are financed by the Government out of the perimeter of the project. [...] The World Bank team is providing regular technical assistance to the Institute of Statistics on the population census operation, advising them on the choice of technology, staffing, and logistics of the operation. [...] A convention has also been negotiated between the INSTAD and Afristat who will provide support and training to the Institute in the production, analysis and publication of the main economic statistics, and is pending signature. [...] INSTAD continues its focus for 2021 and the first quarter of 2022 on the institutional transition, the improvement of economic statistics, the implementation of the pilot population census, and the mapping exercise that is planned for 2022. [...] The call for applications for all the Long-term technical assistances for the budget preparation and investment planning have been advertised and the technical assistants are expected to be on board before the end of the calendar year 2021.