Paraguay project 526001802 · 1970 · monitoring, evaluation and performance measurement

Grant is provided to improve Government of Paraguay's (GOP) public administration. Project consists of four subprojects. Subproject two will improve GOP's compilation and dissemination of official statistics. Advisors from the U.S. Census Bureau will implement the project, and GOP will contribute financial support. Inputs provided for a related USAID/GOP Census and Household Survey Project (526008502) will eventually be available for activities under the present project. The first major output will be the establishment of a workable coordinating mechanism for all official GOP statistics. A policymaking National Council, representing the users of statistics, and a number of Technical Sector Committees, made up of the producers of statistics, will jointly prepare and implement plans for the development of the national statistical system. Specific targets will include: (1) organization and implementation of a coordinated training program to provide instruction in general statistical methods and techniques to GOP personnel; (2) establishment of coordinated data processing and printing facilities, utilizing, as far as possible, computers available outside the statistical system; (3) e

Source: DEC abstract, PD-AAC-785-B1 (1970). The source's own text.