4. ASPA STRUCTURE AND LOGICAL FRAMEWORK
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The main activities of the applied research component, over the next five years, will be conducted within the framework of the AFRISTAT/IRD convention (see section 3.2.5). This cooperation covers two priority thrusts:

  • designing statistical production methodologies to monitor household living conditions and poverty, agricultural statistics and dissemination of statistical information ;
  • conducting studies and analysis, and capacity building, through continued training, of AFRISTAT experts, NSS senior staff and lecturers of schools of statistics.

The general objective of the work programme, outlined by DIAL and AFRISTAT, is to «contribute to applied research for developing methodologies tailored to the capacities of national statistics systems of Member States as well as for designing, monitoring and evaluating development policies ». The activities will aim at the following three specific objectives:

  • pursue methodological investment in the domain of statistics with a view to showcasing surveys conducted by AFRISTAT supported States and to sustain various national systems;
  • conduct analysis and applied research activities centred on household surveys, including forecasting activities;
  • exchange on and showcase survey findings through publications, presentations, hosting of researchers, etc. in a bid to access the scientific community (economic and statistics).

Activities planned for the attainment of these objectives are briefly presented below by expected outcome:

General objective V:   Contribute to applied research for developing methodologies tailored to the capacities of national statistical systems of Member States as well as for designing, monitoring and evaluating development policies

Specific objective 12:   Pursue methodological investment in statistics with a view to showcasing surveys conducted by AFRISTAT supported States and sustain the various national systems
Outcome 12.0:   Surveys conducted by AFRISTAT supported States are showcased and various systems are sustained
Activity 12.0.1:  Conduct of a diagnostic review of poverty profiles designed by Member States
Activity 12.0.2:  Due diligence of methodological documents of each of the phases of the survey system 1.2.3
Activity 12.0.3:  Conduct of a study on the technical feasibility of extending the scope of the survey at national level 1.2.3.
Activity 12.0.4:  Appointment of an employment and informal sector panel on the basis of data from phases 1 and 2 of the survey system 1.2.3
Activity 12.0.5:  Conduct of a diagnostic review of existing survey systems
Activity 12.0.6:  Design of improved household survey tools (questionnaires, data collection classifications, analysis manuals, reconciliation manuals...) mainstreaming gender, governance, democracy and subjective poverty, etc.
Specific objective 13:   Conduct analysis and applied research activities centred on household surveys, including forecasting
Outcome 13.0:   Analysis and applied research centred on household surveys including forecasting are conducted
Activity 13.0.1:   Preparation of a methodological document for ex ante official policy impact assessment
Activity 13.0.2:  Preparation of a methodological document for ex post social policy impact assessment
Activity 13.0.3:  Design of a poverty analysis toolkit to compare regional poverty levels
Activity 13.0.4:  Design of a methodological package for calculating budget coefficients by type of household expenditure survey
Activity 13.0.5:  Design of simpler and cost-effective agricultural survey methodologies for estimating surface areas and crop yields
Activity 13.0.6:  Conduct of a comparative study for selecting a method for estimating crop yields
Activity 13.0.7:  Design and launching, in a pilot State, of an agriculture and food information system (indicators, calculation methods, data sources, etc) consistent with national accounting and food security analysis requirements
Activity 13.0.8:  Design of agricultural policy impact assessment methodologies
Activity 13.0.9:  Design of methodologies for developing mid-term macroeconomic simulation models
Specific objective 14:   Conduct information sharing on and showcase on findings through publications, presentations, hosting of researchers, etc. for purpose of accessing the scientific community (economic and statistics)
Outcome 14.0:   Information sharing and showcasing for purposes of accessing the international scientific community (economic and statistics) are achieved
Activity 14.0.1:  Exchange of publications and communications
Activity 14.0.2:  Publication of articles in research journals
Activity 14.0.3:  Exchange of researchers
Activity 14.0.4:   Participation at international scientific conferences
Activity 14.0.5:  Revival of the following AFRISTAT publications:« Annuaires », « Méthodes » and « Etudes »

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