Update on activities of DevInfo Working Group in BiH

and Overview of diMonitoring Tool

Prepared by Envesa Hodzic-KovacDevelopment, Research and M&E Specialist (DevInfo WG Chair)

UN Resident Coordinator’s Office

Results of DevInfo WG in 2011

• DevInfo Strategic Framework 2011-2013 adopted and formalised through MoU between UN, BHAS, RSIS, FoS and DEP

• Experts engaged at all three statistical institutions for DevInfo development

• First web-based DevInfo databases available online:– BHAS: http://dissemination.bhas.ba/DI/ – RSIS: http://rzs.rs.ba/DI6WEB – FoS: http://www.fzs.ba/devinfo/home.aspx

• 2-day WG workshop (September) – focus on municipal level development of DevInfo (UNICEF municipalities,UNDP ILDP and UNDP Srebrenica) with municipal representatives from 4 municipalities

• BHAS expert extended until end of 2012; FoS and RSIS experts – requests for extension of services received from statistical institutions

DevInfo in BiH

http://dissemination.bhas.ba/DI/

Data items 1812

Indicators 122

I-U-S 887

Data items 1892

Indicators 47

I-U-S 604

Databases:

Social Protection

BiH in Numbers

DevInfo in BiH

Data items 5560

Indicators 139

I-U-S 953

Data items 5671

Indicators 56

I-U-S 1168

This is Republika Srpska

Databases:

Social Protection

http://rzs.rs.ba/DI6WEB

DevInfo in BiH

Data items 1073

Indicators 434

I-U-S 15

Data items 1324

Indicators 488

I-U-S 468

FBIH in Numbers 2010

Databases:

Social Protection

http://www.fzs.ba/devinfo/home.aspx

Activities foreseen until mid 2012

• BHAS DevInfo Expert – tasked to create UN DevInfo database to be hosted on UN web site and help with creation of new information products

• Statistician and 2 methodologists engaged to produce final list of 50-100 ‘core’ municipal socio-economic indicators that will be tracked and collected in all DevInfo municipalities

• Development of databases at state and entities level for five agreed sectors (Demography, Education, Foreign trade, Social protection and Gender)

• Introduction of DevInfo databases to end users – line ministries

• Launch conference (2nd quarter of 2012)

• Roll-out of DevInfo and ‘core’ indicators in pilot municipalities

Benefits using diMonitoring

Forces users to be pragmatic, practical, concise, exact

Ensures that development documents and plans are linked to measurable indicators

Tool is straightforward and user friendly

If used from the very start of the new UNDAF cycle, could be extremely beneficial

Has a potential to be integrated as a standardised tool for UNDAF monitoring globally

Shortcomings of current version of diMonitoring

Tool currently does not allow for qualitative/textual indicators to also be monitored – given the nature of UNDAFs, some space for this type of indicators (i.e. Policy developed, capacity increased, etc.) and way of assessing progress of them needs to be envisaged (have values such as completed, not completed, in process, etc.)

No space for annual narrative reporting – would be useful if the tool, apart from monitoring, could also be used for reporting

Current reporting options/formats poor – unformatted Excel sheets – it would be good to try to have report tables look as close as possible as the screen view in diMonitoring

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!