G.D.D.S

The Seychelles’ involvement in the General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) Project for Anglophone African Countries

GDDS is:

The General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) was established by the IMF with support from the Development Data Group of the World Bank in 1997. The main objective has been to provide a framework for developing the capacity of national statistical systems in member countries. Metadata describing the current statistical compilation and dissemination practices and plans for short- and medium term improvements are available on the IMF’s Dissemination Standards

Bulletin Board (DSBB) at http://dsbb.imf.org/Applications/web/gdds/gddscountrycategorylist/?strcode=SYC#SUM 

Within this framework, a GDDS project for capacity building in statistics in Anglophone Africa, financed by DFID, has been established that is providing technical assistance to 21 Anglophone African countries in order to put the GDDS guidelines into practice. As part of the current Phase II of this project, the World Bank offers technical assistance on the socio-demographic component of the system, therewith covering Population, Health, Agriculture, Justice & Security, Management, Labor, and GIS.

The IMF provides technical assistance on financial and economic statistics, also covering seven areas: Money and banking, Balance of payments, Government finance, National accounts, GDDS/PRSP, SDDS, and SACU.

The Seychelles have decided to work with the World Bank on the following topics, Population and Justice & Security Statistics. For each of those topics priorities and plans for improvement were formulated:

Topic: Population 

Topic: Justice and Security

The Seychelles have decided to work with the IMF on the following topics, Government finance statistics and the GDDS module. Action plans were formulated for each of these topics with specified outputs to be achieved, as listed below.