Component 1: Strategic Planning in Agricultural Statistics
This component encompasses two pivotal packages: Strategic Plans for Agricultural Statistics (SPARS) and the Advanced Data Planning Tool (ADAPT). Both packages play a crucial role in enhancing national agricultural statistical systems, aligning statistical production with policy needs, and ensuring alignment with global and regional frameworks. Through the combined efforts of SPARS and ADAPT, the Global Strategy aims to enhance the planning, budgeting, and implementation of agricultural statistical systems, fostering a data-driven environment conducive to sustainable development and informed decision-making.
SPARS (Strategic Plans for Agricultural Statistics)
Implementing Agency: FAO
Developed and implemented in around 40 countries during its first phase, SPARS has been instrumental in organizing agricultural statistical systems and serving as a coordination platform. It has facilitated connections between agricultural systems, subsystems, national statistical offices, and line ministries. In its current phase, the Global strategy continues to provide technical assistance for countries to design or update their strategic plans (SPARS), with an emphasis on integrating initiatives like the 50x2030 Initiative and aligning with frameworks such as the SDGs and CAADP.
Objectives:
- Support the design and updating of SPARS at the country level, ensuring they align with existing statistical and policy frameworks.
- Assist countries in budgeting and mobilizing resources for statistical activities within SPARS.
Activities and Results:
- Improved planning and resource mobilization for national agricultural statistical systems.
- Development of sustainable funding models in target countries.
- Integration of ADAPT into SPARS design, enhancing data gap identification and alignment with policymaker needs.
Countries that adopted the SPARS Package:
Angola, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, Togo, Liberia, Zimbabwe.
ADAPT (Advanced Data Planning Tool) is a free tool allowing national statistical services to identify data gaps and the necessary resources to fill those gaps. It reveals gaps in data coverage, reporting, financing, and disaggregation. Additionally, it offers modules on planning and costing to estimate the budget needed to finance the closure of data gaps. ADAPT helps national statistical services plan data-related activities and costs for the SDGs or potentially other indicators (CAADP) within their national statistical system. ADAPT can play a key supporting role in the design of strategic plans such as SPARS and their implementation, as well as promoting the reuse of existing data to influence policies.
Objectives:
- Align statistical production with the requirements of key national, regional, and global frameworks.
- Customize ADAPT for the agricultural sector, making it a standard tool in the SPARS assessment process.
Activities and Results:
- Customization of ADAPT functionalities to suit the agricultural sector.
- Training of FAO staff and global partners in the use of ADAPT.
- Implementation of ADAPT in target countries and sub-regional organizations to enhance the design and effectiveness of SPARS.