Statistikstöd för Somalia Statistical support to Somalia Statistics Sweden (SCB) in collaboration with Directorate of Statistics of the Federal Government of Somalia, the statistics departments of in Puntland and Somaliland has submitted a SEK 47 879 000 proposal to Sweden for funding between 2015-18.

The project “Capacity Building in Statistics” aims at building the statistical capacity of the Somali Ministries of Planning and improve on availability, accuracy, and reliability of statistical data. The project will specifically provide support in the following areas; 1) Strengthening statistical systems, 2) improving the quality of economic statistics, 3) improving on the availability and quality of social statistics, and 4) improving the capacity of the national staff in statistical methodology.

Sweden had earlier engaged SCB to carry out a statistical fact finding mission in order to assess possibilities and preconditions for Swedish Development cooperation with the departments of statistics in Somalia. SCB was tasked to, jointly with the Somalia statistical departments; develop a programme that will respond to the long term statistical capacity gaps of the Somali authorities.

The intervention’s total budget is SEK 47 879 000, out of which Sweden will fund SEK 32 000 000. Sweden is currently the only donor to the intervention. SCB will reprioritize its activities to fit within Sweden’s allocation. Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) har tillsammans med Somalias statistikdirektorat och statistik departementen i Puntland och Somaliland inkommit med en förfrågan om finansiering av deras kapacitetsbyggnadsprogram om 47 879 000 kronor under perioden 2015-2018. 

Detta kapacitetsbyggandsprogram syftar till att stärka somaliska institutioners kapacitet gällande tillgänglighet, kvalitet och tillförlitlighet till statistik i Somalia. Mer specifikt kommer programmet stödja: 1) stärkandet av statistiska system, 2) ökad kvalitet av ekonomisk statistik, 3) ökad tillgänglighet och kvalitet av social statistik, och 4) att stärka kapaciteten hos de berörda myndigheternas personal gällande statistiska metoder. 

Sverige har tidigare stött SCB för att genomföra en ”fact-finding”-resa för att utreda möjligheterna till stöd till kapacitetsbyggnad av statistikdepartement i Somalia. Som del av detta har SCB, tillsammans med sina somaliska partners utvecklat det föreslagna programmet.

Insatsens totala budget är 47 879 000 kronor, utav vilket Sverige föreslår att finansiera 32 000 000 kronor under 2015-2018. Sverige är för närvarande den enda givaren till programmet och SCB kommer därför behöva prioritera om insatsen. The overall objective of the project is increased strengthened statistical capacity at the Somali statistical directorate/departments with the purpose of facilitating decision makers’ awareness, understanding and trust in statistical data.
The strengthened system should then be able to provide users with accurate and reliable statistical information in order to ease decision-making processes and monitoring of development strategy indicators including the national programs and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The project  specifically supports the strategic orientations regarding the following priority areas with the following component objectives:
1. General Management- The statistical system is strengthened 
2. Economic statistics-  Quality of targeted economic statistics improved
3. Social statistics- Production of quality and availability of designated social statistics improved
4. Statistical methodology- Capacity of national staff within statistical methodology improved methodology.