The objectives of the Implementation of the National Strategy Program for Strengthening of the National Statistical System Project is to further improve the capacity of the national statistical system of Armenia and technical capacity of the staff at the NSSRA to produce and disseminate in a timely manner statistics that are in line with international standards.
... See More + The Government of Armenia has requested the World Bank to change the institutional arrangements for the procurement and financial management functions for the Armenia Implementation of the National Strategy Program for Strengthening of the National Statistics System (Grant No. TF0A4543). It has been requested that the Foreign Financial Projects Management Center (‘FFPMC’) as the Project implementing agency, under the Ministry of Finance, responsible for fiduciary functions, is replaced with the newly created Project Implementation Department (‘PID’). The ‘PID’ is designed to carry out all the activities of the former ‘FFPMC’ which is being terminated, preserving all capacities and functions of the latter.
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Ratings of Development of a National Statistical System (NSS) for Tanzania Project were as follows: outcome was satisfactory, Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation quality was modest.
... See More + Some of the lessons learned include: (i) Statistical capacity building takes a long time as it must effectively deal with both institutional and human capacity development; (ii) The implementation experience of this project supports the finding reported in a recent Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) evaluation that statistical capacity-building operations which seek to transform an NSS tend to have high transaction costs and are slow in producing intended results; (iii) The World Bank might want to consider ways for making statistical capacity issues a permanent feature of policy dialogue; (iv) An effective system-wide approach to statistical capacity building requires judicious targeting of the intervention within the NSS, which is a network of people and organizations involved in the production, dissemination, and use of statistics; and (v) The project focused on data collection through surveys and supporting administrative data collection by Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs).
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR4612 APR 29, 2019
This annex contains the methodology for a comprehensive assessment of a country’s quality infrastructure (QI) based on the detailed description thereof in modules 3–8 of Ensuring Quality to Gain Access to Global Markets: A Reform Toolkit (henceforth, QI Toolkit).
... See More + Hence, the comprehensive assessment should not be conducted without having carefully studied modules 3–8 of the QI Toolkit. Nevertheless, to evaluate the QI of a country with this Comprehensive Diagnostic Tool will require the involvement of knowledgeable experts, the full support of the country to be assessed, and quite a long time—at least a few weeks in the field. The outcome of such an evaluation will be a detailed report on the status and efficacy of the QI of a country.The Comprehensive Diagnostic Tool has a companion—the Rapid Diagnostic Tool that allows for a much quicker but less detailed assessment of a country’s QI. The Rapid Diagnostic Tool can be used for a quick assessment that would enable a better decision to be made regarding the need for a more detailed assessment, which would be much more resource intensive.
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In a modern world with rapidly growing international trade, countries compete less on the availability of natural resources, geographical advantages, and lower labor costs and more on factors related to a firm’s ability to enter and compete in new markets.
... See More + One such factor is the ability to demonstrate the quality and safety of goods and services expected by consumers and to confirm compliance with international standards. To ensure such compliance, a sound quality infrastructure (QI) ecosystem is essential. Jointly developed by the World Bank Group and the National Metrology Institute of Germany, Ensuring Quality to Gain Access to Global Markets: A Reform Toolkit is designed to help development partners and governments analyze a country’s QI ecosystem, provide recommendations to design and implement reforms, and enhance the capacity of QI institutions. The toolkit’s 12 modules provide a systematic, holistic knowledge resource—supported by practical case studies and examples—for QI diagnostics, reform interventions and approaches, and monitoring and evaluation. Related diagnostic tools are also available online at http://www.worldbank.org/qi and https://www.ptb.de/qitoolkit.
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