SIGMA will focus its 2016 country monitoring on a maximum of two areas of the Principles for each country, with the goal of delivering reports to the EC in May after starting data collection in January. In 2017, SIGMA will conduct a second full assessment against the Principles of Public Administration, requiring preparation and data collection to begin in autumn 2016. SIGMA will systematize information collected from 2015 and 2016 to better meet targeted requests, and will review its monitoring framework to reduce indicators and data required from administrations. The main challenge remains availability of evidence, so SIGMA will continue working with countries and the EC to improve data availability for 2017 monitoring.

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Future Country Monitoring:
Next Steps And Main Challenges
Karen Hill
Head of SIGMA
4 December 2015, Paris

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Country monitoring - 2016 and 2017
• In 2016, SIGMA monitoring will concentrate
on a maximum of two areas of the Principles
for each country
⁻ We will start with data collection in January
to achieve a delivery date of May for the EC
⁻ Workload for administration will be much
less
• In 2017, SIGMA will carry out a second full
assessment against the Principles of Public
Administration, which will require preparation
and data collection to start in autumn 2016

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Next steps
• SIGMA will systemise the information and data
collected from the 2015 Baseline Measurement
and 2016 country monitoring assessments, and
improve data storage
• This will enable SIGMA to better meet targeted
information requests
• Monitoring framework will be reviewed for 2016
assessments, with the aim of reducing the
number of indicators used and the data required
• This should decrease the workload for your
administrations in providing data

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Main challenges
• Availability of evidence remains the main
challenge
• It is not relevant only to producing quality
monitoring reports – the effective usage of
evidence determines the quality of policies
• EC co-operation with Statistical Offices is
crucial to enhancing statistical capacity
• SIGMA will continue to work with you, in co-
operation with EC services, to improve data
availability for 2017 monitoring

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I look forward to our continued
excellent co-operation!