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 The PARIS21 Web Site at www.paris21.org
Established in November 1999 in response to the UN Economic and Social Council resolution on the goals of the UN Conference on Development, the Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) was launched to act as a catalyst for promoting a culture of evidence-based policymaking and monitoring in all countries, and especially in developing countries.
The PARIS21 Consortium is a partnership of policymakers, analysts, and statisticians from all countries of the world who focus on promoting high-quality statistics, making these data meaningful, and designing sound policies. PARIS21’s role is to foster more effective dialogue among those who produce development statistics and those who use them, through facilitating international events, country-based activities, regional workshops, and subject-matter task teams.
PARIS21's objective is to encourage all low-income countries to design a National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) by 2006 in order to have nationally owned and produced data for all MDG indicators by 2010.
PARIS21 is serviced by a small secretariat hosted by the Development Co-operation Directorate in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, France. The work of the Consortium is guided by a steering committee with representatives of developing and transition countries from each region of the world, bilateral donors, and the United Nations, the OECD, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Commission.
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