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Contact:
Claudia Monlouis
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - The institutional capacity of statistical
offices throughout the OECS stand to benefit from the newly launched MECOVI-
project, which is aimed at providing institutional strengthening to statistical
offices for planning and conducting survey work.
The first component of this World Bank-funded project will focus on
strengthening the design and implementation of the surveys of living conditions
for participating OECS States.
Social Development Specialist, Rosalyn Hazelle said that measuring the standard
of living in the OECS territories was pivotal to the continued social
development of the region: “The capacity for the generation of timely, reliable,
high quality data produced on a continuous basis must also be a reality. The
timely assistance of the World Bank through an International Development Fund
Grant provides the secretariat with financial resources to assist the
participating member states in the development of reliable information to aid in
designing, implementing and monitoring social policies.”
The other two significant aspects of the project include promoting the wide use
of survey results and dissemination, to support poverty reduction strategies and
build capacity for poverty measurement and social policy analysis.
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