1. Capacity Strengthening Webinar- Small Area Estimation
Pakistan, 14-15 December 2020
“Demand and opportunities for
Small Area estimates”
Tapiwa Jhamba
Population and Development Branch
UNFPA
2. • New development agendas
• SDGs & Regional agendas
• National development plans/strategies
• Increased demand for disaggregated data
• SDG Indicator 17.18.1
• LNOB analysis
• New Data- 2020 census round
• Variety of national surveys
• Innovative technologies & methodologies
Global data context
3. • To enhance data capacity
and statistical systems in
developing countries by
2020
• To increase availability of
high-quality, timely and
reliable data
disaggregated data
Target 17.18 of
the 2030 Agenda
4. UNFPA Population Data Strategy
• Ageing
• Urbanization
• Low fertility
• Climate
A
Changing
World
Universal
access to SRH
services
Gender equality
and women’s
empowerment
Census
CRVS
Demographic
Intelligence
SDGs
Humanitarian
data
5. UNFPA Population Data Strategy
3 Pillars
Improve Use of
Population
Data
Expand Access to
Data:
Population Data
Platform
Improve
Population Data
in Scope and
Quality
6. Role of Census
•Foundational data source in
LMI countries
•107 SDG indicators need
population data
•Yet, many governments face
capacity challenges :
• Technological capacity
• Geospatial skills & expertise
• Analytic capacity
• Dissemination & use
population data
7. ○ Monitoring SDGs and national
development indicators
○ Identifying those left behind
○ Informing service delivery and
investments
○ UNFPA programming & UN
Common Country Analysis
(CCA)
UNFPA census strategy: promoting wider
use of census data
8. We need indicators at the lowest
administrative level
CENSUS SURVEYS
LOWEST
ADMIN
YES NO
MOST
INDICATORS
NO YES
Opportunities for SAE
9. Scaling up SAE capacity strengthening work
through the GRID3 partnership
Oversight and Decision
Making
Technical Expertise
and Capacity Strengthening
Technical Support and
Advocacy
Managing Partner
Implementing Partners
Funding Partners
10. • Introduce small area estimation methodology and its
application
• Create a pool of champions for SAE implementation
in Pakistan
• Promote use of SAE to generate key indicators for
monitoring development indicators - in particular SRH
related indicators
Objectives of the workshop and need
for small area estimation
11. ● Technical presentations, using Nepal as a
case study
● Questions and Answer after each session
● At this step, no Hand-on sessions
Workshop Methodology
