Data for Policy Initiative
The Data for Policy (D4P) initiative (D4P) is a new World Bank engagement to improve National Statistical Systems (NSS) by enhancing the availability, timeliness, quality, and relevance of key data for evidence-based decision making. Working at nat...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/189641591326508044/Data-for-Policy-D4P-Initiative http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33857 |
| Summary: | The Data for Policy (D4P) initiative
(D4P) is a new World Bank engagement to improve National
Statistical Systems (NSS) by enhancing the availability,
timeliness, quality, and relevance of key data for
evidence-based decision making. Working at national and
regional levels, the D4P ‘package’ includes production of a
core set of economic, social, and sustainability statistics
essential for monitoring and evaluating public policies and
programs. Good quality, timely, and relevant statistics are
crucial to monitor social and human development outcomes.
They can also help identify what policies work, and which do
not, in promoting inclusive growth and eradicating poverty.
Having reliable, timely data is particularly important for
poor countries to allow them to allocate limited resources
most efficiently. At the same time, the World Bank’s support
for countries’ statistical capacity has become even more
critical as the world strives to achieve the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs). |
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