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The National Statistical System
The National Statistical System of Cameroon (SSN) includes all the services and organizations whose mission is to provide public administrations, businesses, national, sub-regional, regional and international organizations, the media, researchers and the public, with statistical data relating in particular to the economic, social, demographic, cultural and environmental fields. In addition to the providers of statistical information, the NSS also includes the entire chain of statistical users, whether professional, occasional or potential.
Over the years, national statistical production has become substantial, even if there is still a lot to be done to satisfy all the above-mentioned users. Over the years, the Government has increased the capacity of its National Statistical Information System (SNIS) in order to respond effectively to the needs of all parties.
In this way, the place of statistical information in the overall process of drawing up and monitoring/evaluating the implementation of policies and strategies for economic and social development in general, and particularly for poverty reduction, has been consolidated. A statistical system to address this concern was put in place in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) adopted in April 2003. This statistical system was intended to enable the SNIS to provide quality statistical data and indicators in a timely manner for the monitoring/evaluation of implementation and the measurement of progress made.
In its implementation, this system has proved to be limited; because it only appears as a secondary tool in the appendix for the production of indicators. As a result, and known as the Minimum Statistical Programme (MSP), it was essentially based on operations to be carried out. No strategic vision or medium- and long-term development policy was formulated in the PRSP. In addition, the need for a major revision of the PRSP to make it a second-generation document focused on strong, sustainable and income-generating growth and decent jobs provided an opportunity to integrate the development of statistical production as a central element of the poverty reduction strategy.
The roadmap for the elaboration of the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (SNDS), which expresses the political will of the authorities to give statistics an important place in the overall development process of the country, was presented and validated at the last National Statistics Council (CNS) held in Yaoundé, on July 4, 2005. It is important to remember that the development of the NSDS is part of the international movement that responds to the concerns found in the Paris Declaration.
The initial work carried out by the National Institute of Statistics with all the partners of the SNIS has made it possible to produce an initial document with a stabilized structure and including a sketch of the financial framework over five years. In continuity, the INS has asked the PARIS21 Consortium to support it in the completion of this important exercise.
The mission was carried out by an expert on behalf of the entire SNIS with the main objective of contributing to the production of a provisional version of the SNDS which was submitted for examination by the National Statistics Council (CNS) for adoption.
This strategy is more transversal than vertical; The strategy intervenes in the various sectors of the country’s economic and social life. Like any strategy, it will be complemented at the operational level by more detailed annual business plans incorporating the projects and programmes to be implemented, and more realistic costing.
This NSDS is accompanied by a medium-term expenditure framework and a provisional financing plan covering the period 2009 to 2012. It is now the reference document in statistics at the national level and will then serve as an advocate with the TFPs for technical support and the mobilization of the financial resources necessary for its proper implementation
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