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Establishment of a DevInfo (Syria MDG Monitoring Database)

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Implementing Partner: State Planning commission
Practice Area: Poverty Reduction
Total Budget: US$87,550
Total expenditures as of December 2007:
Duration: 2005-2008
Status: Closed
Location: Syrian Arab Republic

Description / Overview:
The project aims to provide Government decision makers, UN agencies and other partners with an updated database of indicators allowing the analysis of progress of Syria related to MDGs, as well as with a simple user friendly software to extract this information in the shape of tables, graphs and maps.

Objectives:
This joint UN MOU aims at establishing a DEVINFO (MDG Monitoring Database), entitled SyriaInfo that will be used for the regular updating and monitoring of MDG related data. This database will build on disaggregated data extracted from reliable sources, including the National population Census, National Surveys, Multi-Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), Household budget surveys as well as from Government routine statistics information systems.
 

Target Beneficiaries:

  • Decision makers at the national and local levels
  • Syrian population at large


Implementation Strategy:
N/A
 

Achievements / Current Status:

  • The primary data base was prepared and launched on 28 February 2008.
  • Seven Training programmes on the use of DevInfo are being prepared for the involved government officials from Ministries and the Central Bureau of statistics, to enable them to use, run and update the data base.


Partnerships:
N/A

Project Documents Link: 

 Establishment of a DevInfo (Syria MDG Monitoring Database)
 
National Project Director (NPD): National focal point: Lina Fayoumi (SPC)
UNDP Project Management: Poverty Reduction Team
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Last update of project information: 2008