| Title of the project/program | Improving the availability of administrative data to track progress on the ICPD agenda within the SDGs |
| Period | 2019 – 2022 |
| Beneficiary | Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labor and Social Protection; National Bureau of Statistics |
| Status of implementation | Finalizat |
| Budget | 0,482 mil EURO |
| Implementation and partners | Project implementation: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA Moldova), in partnership with the National Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection. Financial assistance for the project:
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| Scope and general objectives |
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| Core activities and components | The project is based on two main components: Component 1 is focused on the creation of an Information System "Population and Migration Statistics" (SPMIS), managed by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), which will utilize administrative data available from information system owners in the Republic of Moldova. The aim of the SPM IS is to enable the NBS to produce and provide/disseminate reliable and accurate data, both for monitoring the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the agenda of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in the Republic of Moldova, and for providing decision makers, academia, business and civil society with relevant and timely data for policy development and monitoring, conducting research, evaluating results, etc. Thanks to this project, the national statistical system will be modernized by expanding the use of administrative data in official statistical production. Improving the availability and use of administrative data for statistical purposes is a commitment stipulated in the National Statistical System Development Strategy 2016-2020 and recommended by Eurostat as part of the Adapted Overall Assessment of the Moldovan national official statistical data system. From the experience of developed countries, which produce official population and migration statistics based on public registers, a system that integrates them serves as an interoperability platform for administrative data exchange aimed at increasing the opportunity for the statistical office to access administrative data, reduce the costs of producing official statistics, which in result can generate statistical data and provide more accurate and detailed estimates for different sub-populations, including vulnerable groups. The SPM IS will be a comprehensive information and technological support for the preparation of future population censuses, and in the long term it will support the National Statistical Office in the transition from traditional to register-based censuses. Component 2 is focused on the involvement of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection, which is the data holder for a set of administrative registers for the health, labor and social protection sector. The activities in this component will strengthen the efforts of this project to establish a regular data collection mechanism for ICPD indicators, particularly those related to sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence. There are two main areas of intervention. The first is the development of registers and data collection forms for indicators on gender-based violence (GBV) and sexual and reproductive health (SRH), which will be applied in the primary, hospital, emergency and forensic sectors of the health system. The second area foresees the implementation of the "Generations and Gender" study, which will allow the collection of the most comprehensive survey-based demographic data. The GBV and SRH component will be implemented with the implementing partner "Women's Law Center" and the National Agency for Public Health. Objective 1: By the end of 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics has an Information System "Population and Migration Statistics" based on available administrative data. Activity 1.1: Evaluation of the available administrative data and of the ways of creating the Information System "Population and Migration Statistics". Activity 1.2: Creation of the Information System "Population and Migration Statistics", based on available and relevant administrative data. Activity 1.3: Improving national capacities to use administrative data for the production of official statistics using international best practices. Activity 1.4: International Technical Advisory Committee on the use of administrative data in official statistics. Activity 1.5: Sharing national experience at regional and global level. Objective 2: By the end of 2022, the Government of the Republic of Moldova has a robust mechanism in place to collect administrative and survey-based data on the ICPD agenda within the framework of the SDGs. Activity 2.1: Incorporate, collect and analyze GBV and SRH indicators from the health information system. Activity 2.2: Conducting the "Generations and Gender" survey. |
| Partnerships | State Chancellery, Administrative Data Holders, Electronic Government Agency, National Public Health Agency, Women's Law Center. |
| Other relevant information: | Contribution to the SDGs
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| Contact details | United Nations Population Fund Secondary Office: Office No. 802 106 Grenoble Street Chisinau, MD-2019 Republic of Moldova Phone: +373 22 214 214 002 Email: moldova.office@unfpa.org Website: http://moldova.unfpa.org |
| Achievements |
1. State Population Register of the Public Service Agency; 2. The Public Services Agency's Real Property Cadastre; 3. Border Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; 4. Office for Migration and Asylum; 5. Public Health Agency.
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