Experience of Strategic Planning

Kazakhstan

High-Level Forum

Bishkek, 17-19 May 2006

Questions for discussion

• Statistics in the system of strategic planning of the country

• New approach for development of strategy • Stages of development• Programme up till 2008 as an example of

new approach implementation

System of planning in RK

Strategic planning

Medium term planning

Annual planning

Strategy

2030

Strategy

2010

Programme of the Government

Plan of socio-economic

development

Fiscal policy

State and branch programmes

Address of the President

Budget

Why new approach was required

• The coverage of the entire activity can be efficient at the stage of development of new statistics, when changes of all the system are required. By 2005 the new system of statistics has been created on the whole and it can function irrespective of availability of the programme

• Why strategy is needed in these conditions ?

For solution of complicated problems of today. This is a new task and new strategy is needed for its solution

Distinction of new approach : «steps” in strategy development

Old approachEntire activity

Directions of activity

Measures for each direction

New approachProblem of today, target

Logic of solution (implementation)

Directions of solution (works)

Mechanism of implementation and criteria of implementation

Volume and costs of works

Step 1. Evaluation of the situation for identification of the topical problem

What is topical?• Low quality of data and heavy

burden on small business • Information for SNA is not

sufficiently comparable• Calculation of volume indices

is time consuming process • New data are needed on:

tourism, middle class, trade via Internet, etc.

What is the reason?The standards are not used on: structural statistics,short-term statistics,statistics of branches of economy,quality and metadata, other directions.

Therefore the standards should be introduced

Step 1. Identification of goals

• There are many standards and recommendations, how to select those which are needed to be introduced?

• There is an experience of Eastern European countries. They have passed this way before us.

We need the set of standards which reflects the requirements of Eurostat for the countries of Eastern Europe which are entering the EU.

We have formulated concrete goals

Step 2. Determination of the logic of solution: fоr each standard specific measures for introduction were determined including dates of their

implementation

Year 3Year 2Year 1

Step А1 Step А2 Step А3Standard А

Step B1 Step B3 Step B4Standard В Step B2

Step С1 Step С2Standard С Step B5 Step С3

Step 3. Determination of directions of work

• Analysis has shown that it is needed to execute many homogeneous and duplicating each other measures

• Homogeneous measures were distributed by five kinds or directions of work

Year 3Year 2Year 1

Direction of works 1

Direction of works 2

Direction of works 3

Direction of works 4

Direction of works 5

Step А1

Step

B 1

Step А2

Step B5

Step А3

Step B2

Step

С2Шаг

B4

Step B3

Step С3

Step С1

Steps 4 and 5. Formation of plan and budgetary requirements

Mechanism of implementation

Costs = Budgetary requirement

Direction of work =

Section of the plan

Criteria of implementation

Practical implementation of approach: Programme for 2006-2008

Goal: Improvement of quality of data through introducing EU standardsTasks: 1.Improvement of coordination as essential condition of standards

introduction;2. Development and introduction of methodology for adaptation of the standards;3. Preparation of analytic reports as the form of dissemination of the results of standards introduction;4.Creation of integrated information system as the means of standards introduction;5. International cooperation as the principle of implementation of standards in statistics

Goals and tasks: links between them

анализ

Информ.системы

Междун.сотруднич

координация

методология

Цель

analysis

Informationsystems

Internationalcooperation

coordination

methodology

goal

Task 1: Transition to the modern level of coordination of statistical system

Introduction of quality management

systems in statistics: first stage

– for two processes (organization of

observations, maintenance of

Register)

Expansion of the staff of the

Agency on Statisticsby involving

territorial bodies in order to carry outfunctions

on marketing,methodology,

analysis, etc.

Beginning of works on creation of METIS:

Development and Introduction of

Classification of forms,formation of

metadata register

Task 2. Development and introduction of methodology with the purpose of adaptation

standards at the national level

Development of newState

classificationsand nomenclature

of products in connectionwith changes

of international analogues

in 2007

Introduction of new methodology

of data collection, based on sample

surveys,to reduce

burden

on enterprises

Introduction of new branches and

modules of statistics of:

disabled persons,middle class,

trade via Internet,etc.

Task 3. Introduction of system approach to the organization and execution of statistical

information analysis

Introduction of a standard

Conduct of a survey

New (improved)

data

Analytic report

(annual coordination

of themes withState bodies)

users

Task 4. Creation of the integrated information system «State Statistics» for the collection, processing, storage

and dissemination of data

Today:Selected

self-dependent complexes,

technology fordifferent

stages or kinds of works

Programme:Development

of missing subsystems

(Data storage,Register for

social statistics,Portal for users, etc.

Result:Technology

for the system as a whole, from the collection to dissemination of

data through Internet,

Accounting of burden

Task 5. Transition from getting technical assistance to active international cooperation

Statistics has 7 agreements and doesn’t have means for cooperation;

during 10 years the volume of grants reduced twice

Introduction of standards requires not the reduction but

expansion of cooperation

The Programme envisages to conduct 3 international seminars at the expense of the budget and

the work in accordance withthe concluded agreements

Mechanism of implementation

• Adoption of normative acts (about the change in structure of the Agency on Statistics), receipt of certificates (for quality system), etc. will be the criteria of coordination measures implementation

• Individual budget programmes and corresponding control of their implementation are envisaged for methodology and analysis

• For other measures – budget control, as well as control on the part of other ministries (for information technologies – Agency for Information Systems; for international cooperation – Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Expected results

• Improvement of management: system of quality, accounting of burden, metadata, transition to a new system of classifications (2008г.)

• Introduction of new statistical indicators for 14 modules • Annual execution of scientific and research works

(methodology), analytic reports (approximately for 20 themes)

• Development and introduction of 5 information systems• Conduct of 3 international seminars for the first time on

the initiative of Kazakhstan: statistics of tourism, classifications, register of enterprises

Achievement of the goal

Considerable expansion of the usage of fundamental international standards and recommendations. Increasing on this basis of the efficiency of the system of statistics, improvement of data quality and reduction of respondents burden.