개발도상국 통계역량강화를 위한 국제개발협력 현황 및 정책적 시사점

International Development Cooperation in Statistical Capacity Building

Sound national statistical system, is one of the most important infrastructures of a country to produce and disseminate high-quality official statistics and to utilize it in the process of policy-making. The needs of strengthening national statistical system have been highlighted since most countries were committed to achieving the Millennium Development Goals in 2000. Since then, the international statistical and development communities began to initiate global statistical activities of supporting the countries with weak national statistical capacity by establishing PARIS21, Global Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building and by adopting Marrakech Action Plan for Statistics. Apart from these major global initiatives, donor countries and regional development banks have conducted a series of technical cooperation projects assisting developing countries to improve their national statistical system, which is relatively new in Korea as one of the emerging donors of OECD DAC. This article explains how the international communities have developed the agenda and expanded the activities for strengthening statistical capacity over the last decade and presents major programs for developing countries. This article also analyzes whether such global efforts have made a difference and suggests the way forward to enhancing statistical capacity building of developing countries.