Support to the State Statistical Office for capacity building and improving compliance of statistics with EU standards
The Twinning project funded by European Union
“Support to the State Statistical Office for capacity building and improving compliance of statistics with EU standards” started on the 17th of October 2016.
The project is funded by European Union and it is jointly implemented by the beneficiary institution (SSO), and the Member States partners (Istat and SURS).
The Twinning project purpose is to enhance the capacity of the State Statistical Office in order to further improve compliance with EU acquis in the three main
pillars of the National Statistical System: National Accounts, Economic statistics and Social Statistics. The overall objective to which the project has to contribute
is the improvement of decision making by government institutions, businesses and citizens in the country, through the production of exhaustive and comparable
statistics in line with EU and international standards, aiming at further advancing democracy and the market oriented economy.
The State Statistical Office (SSO), the main beneficiary institution, is a professional and independent organisation within the state administration, and it is
the main actor and co-ordinator of official statistics in the country. The EU member states partners are The Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) is
the body responsible for official statistics in Italy and the largest producer of economic and social data in the country. It is a public research organisation and
operates under public law in complete independence and continuous interaction with the academic and scientific communities. The State Statistical Office of
the Republic of Slovenia (SURS) is the main producer and coordinator of national statistics in Slovenia. In line with the National Statistics Act, SURS is
a professionally independent Government service. A number of other national stakeholders will also be involved and benefit from the project.
In order to reach the aims of the project, the following mandatory results have to be achieved:
- Implementation of European System of Accounts 2010 (component 1)
- Improvement of Business Statistics (component 2)
- Improvement of Research and Development statistics, Labour Market statistics and Statistics on income and living conditions (component 3)
As for all Twinning projects, the project brings together public sector expertise from EU Member States and beneficiary countries with the aim of achieving
concrete mandatory operational results through peer to peer activities. The project will implement a number of activities grouped in three project’s components,
with a range of short-term experts from the national statistics institutions of Italy and Slovenia who will work together with SSO staff.
The project duration, originally of 16 months, has been prolonged of 4 months in order to achieve the mandatory results in a more effective and sustainable way.
4 missions and 1 study visit will be conducted in the last month of the project. A total of 84 missions and 4 study visits will be conducted by the end of the
project (see Project activities).
Basic data
Project title:
“Support to the State Statistical Office for capacity building and improving compliance of statistics with EU standards” (MK 12 IB ST 01)
Main beneficiary: State Statistical Office (SSO)
Member States implementing partners: Istat - Italian National Institute of Statistics (MS Lead Partner); State Statistical Office of
the Republic of Slovenia SURS - (MS Junior Partner)
Implementation period: 17 October 2016 - 16 June 2018; 20 months
Budget: the total budget is 742,105 Euro, 5% of which as National Public contribution
The project is funded by the European Union’s IPA TAIB 2012 National Programme.
For more information
Resident Twinning Adviser
Donatella Zindato
+389 (2) 3295 679
dzindato.ipa2012@stat.gov.mk
Resident Twinning Adviser Assistant
Marija Janakievska
+389 (2) 3295 779
marijaj@stat.gov.mk
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