Transforming NSOs in Asia Pacific

Jousairi Hasbullah:
According to Regional Steering Group (RSG) in population and social Statistics Asia and the Pacific, in order to transform National Statistical Office in Asia and Pacific into more effective, relevance, and more productive in producing Social Statistics, all NSOs/NSS should work at least with  frame work consist of 3 goals:
1. How NSOs could maintain and enhance close relation with stakeholders especially line ministries. NSO should be able to enhance well coordinated policy environment, closely engaging with senior stakeholders on the basis of mutual respect. NSOs could assist stakeholders in identifying and prioritazing data and information needs.  In this case it is of great benefit for government for identifying the need for inclusive social development if using a generic tool what we call as equiframe.
Equiframe is a framework evaluating the degree of commitment of the existing policy toward 21 concept of human right and 12 concepts of vulnerability-vulnerable group-
Why NSOs and stakeholders should give attention of using equiframe?

It is quite difficult for every country achieving SDGs and inclusive development target without fully giving attention to vulnerable group. NSOs should provide data in relation to vulnerable group..data should be disaggregated by the degree of vulnerability and human rights. This is the intrinsic meaning of inclusive development.

2.in order to make NSOs in Asia and the Pacific tobe more robust, it is a need to seriously strengthen production of various types and dimension of social statistics in order to overcome national,provincial and regency/districs level data gaps. For this point, the most severe problems facing by the most NSOs in developing countries in the region is the lack of data resulted from regular survey. We can not  apply statistical method to estimating variables for data disaggregation up to small areas without availability of data based from survey or census.

3.it is of great challenges for every NSO to bring data closer to the public by enhancing accessibility and use of data. Regarding the use of data, NSOs should be able-strong ability-to educate the government and the public of the intrinsic meaning of every indicators produced by NSOs. This would be possible if NSOs leaders and staff have a strong capability in writing, in communicating and in forming a good and productive networking.
Jousairi hasbullah
16 June 2018.