Statistics Canada

Published purpose

The aim of the project is to improve the statistics produced by Senegal’s national statistics and demographics agency [Agence nationale de statistique et de la démographie du Sénégal (ANSD)] and the ministries responsible for education, technical and professional training, food security and nutrition, and extractives. Reliable, credible statistics are needed to improve the strategic planning and monitoring of programs and projects under the Emerging Senegal Plan, the national social and economic development strategy aimed at making Senegal an emerging country by 2035. The project provides the ANSD and the various ministries with support for activities such as the following: (1) improving the structures and mechanisms for coordination and collaboration between statistical data producers and users; (2) implementing, by the various national statistical system structures, best practices in the areas of financial management and human resources; (3) providing training on statistical survey techniques and methods; (4) improving the statistical production quality and reliability of the sectors (education, food security, nutrition and extractives); and (5) implementing an online statistics dissemination policy for the entire national statistical system.