## D4D Fund Phase II Second Work Plan (FY27-FY28Q2)

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**Canonical URL:** [D4D Fund Phase II Second Work Plan (FY27-FY28Q2)](https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/capacity-developement/d4d/9th-meeting/d4d-ii-second-work-plan-fy27-28-q2.pdf)

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### Implementation challenges and mitigation
- Implementation challenges identified by the IMF:
  - High staff turnover
  - Limited technical skills
  - Weak IT systems
  - Competing Priorities
  - Weak interagency coordination
  - Legal barriers to data sharing
  - Fragmented data ecosystems
  - Limited access to source data
  - Limited ownership by authorities
  - Challenges in securing reform buy-in
  - Weak accountability for results
  - Data gaps not systematically identified
  - Limited link between data adequacy and policy priorities
  - Weaker impact of CD on surveillance and reform
- Mitigation emphases:
  - Capacity & continuity
  - Coordination & data sharing
  - Ownership & accountability
  - CD-surveillance integration
  - Digital tools & online learning (expand languages)
  - Blended CD & stronger missions (increase mission staffing)
  - Continuous engagement (light-touch support between missions)
  - Change management & stakeholder engagement
  - Innovation & data use (pilot data use solutions)
  - Data Adequacy Assessments (DAA & heatmaps to link gaps to priorities)
- Expected outcomes from mitigation:
  - Faster implementation
  - Stronger ownership & accountability
  - Better data use & decision-making
  - Sustainable reforms & greater impact

### Scaling up impact: strategic drivers
- STA MT Strategic Agenda under development (launch: Fall2026) with CD Strategy to be fully developed by end-FY 27.
- Strategic objectives:
  - Modernize STA’s CD model through agile, flexible, medium-term-oriented, and innovative approach
  - Better integrate STA CD across internal and external stakeholders
  - Strengthen STA CD management and administration
  - Proactively embed change management, communication, and storytelling into CD
- Immediate operational drivers supporting STA CD Strategy:
  - Eliminate caps on mission staffing; promote STX and LTX usage
  - Enhance continuous engagement modalities and blended CD; strengthen project-based approach
  - Leverage the DAA and other tools to inform CD design and prioritization; increase diagnostic and P2P workshops
  - Prepare stakeholder mapping and regional CD engagement plans

### Programmatic factors driving scale-up
- Module-level expansions and absorptions:
  - Module 1: Scale up HFI and big data for timelier, more granular data on inflation, labor markets, fiscal developments, and distributional effects
  - Module 2: Expand FAS coverage and apply advisory group recommendations
  - Module 3: Expand online learning—new course development, curriculum updates, Arabic translations of key courses; expand multilingual access (4 LANGUAGES; emphasis on Arabic)
  - Module 4: Absorb JSA-funded Data Standards CD; deepen country support for modernizing data dissemination (SDMX migration and implementation)
  - Module 5: Absorb SECO-funded pilot Environment and Climate Change Statistics (ECCS); front-load ECCS diagnostics and in-country support to produce macro-critical climate indicators aligned with Fund surveillance and lending
  - Module 4 submodule: strengthen data use and analytical capacity to translate statistics into policy decisions and promote sustainability

### Proposed budget and resource allocation
- Steering Committee endorsement request for D4D-II FY27-28Q2 Workplan and Budget: With the approval of the budget of $16,017,574 required for the work plan, the IMF will be able to implement a full-fledged 18-month work plan.
- Proposed budget by module (listed items and implications):
  1. Module 1, Submodule Real Sector Statistics    $4.05 million
  2. Module 1, Submodule External Sector Statistics    $2.04 million
  3. Module 1, Submodule Fiscal and Debt Statistics    $1.73 million
  4. Module 2: Financial Access Survey    $1.07 million
  5. Module 3: Online Learning    $1.41 million
  6. Module 4: Data Dissemination and Use    $1.60 million
  7. Module 5: Environmental and Climate Change Statistics    $2.67 million
  8. Others (Program Management, Governance and Evaluation, and Trust Fund Management Fees)    $1.45 million
- Module share highlights (FY27 – FY28Q2):
  - M1: ($7.8 million, 54% of total budget) [visual placement indicates largest share]
  - Other module shares shown as: 7% of total budget; 10% of total budget; 11% of total budget; 18% of total budget (allocated across other modules as per plan)

### D4D-II scope and activity footprint
- Total planned CD activities: TOTAL: 185 CD activities planned
- Distribution of CD activities by workstream (numbers of activities by workstream):
  - Real Sector Statistics (RSS): 37
  - External Sector Statistics (ESS): 18
  - Fiscal and Debt Reporting (GFS/PSDS): 19
  - Financial Access Survey (FAS): 2
  - SDMX: 5
  - Environmental and Climate Change Statistics (ECCS): 6
  - Data Standards: 2
  - Data Use: 11
- Geographic distribution (number of activities by region):
  - Africa, 36
  - Middle East and Central Asia, 28
  - Asia and the Pacific, 22
  - Western Hemisphere, 9
  - Multi-regional, 4
  - Europe, 1
- Fragile and conflict-affected (FCS) focus:
  - 26% of the technical assistance planned goes to fragile and conflict-affected (FCS) countries

### Module 1 (RSS, ESS, GFS/PSDS) work plans and regional activities
- Module 1 Real Sector Statistics (RSS) activities and priorities:
  - National Accounts Statistics:
    - Support GDP rebasing and supply-use tables
    - Improve coverage of informal and digital economies
  - Prices:
    - Develop or update CPI, PPI, RPPI
    - Inflation monitoring and real estate market insights
  - High-Frequency Indicators:
    - Develop Monthly Index of Economic Growth (MIEG)
    - Integrate nontraditional data sources (e.g., VAT, Big Data)
  - Regional distribution highlights for RSS technical assistance:
    - APD: 8, AFR: 1, MCD: 7, EUR: 1, WHD: 3
- Module 1 ESS and GFS/PSDS priorities:
  - External Sector Statistics:
    - Strengthen balance of payments, international investment position, and external debt statistics
    - Support adoption of BPM7 and improved cross-border risk monitoring
  - Fiscal and Public Debt Statistics:
    - Improve government finance and public sector debt statistics
    - Support adoption of GFSM 2014 and enhanced debt transparency
  - Activity counts and distribution:
    - ESS: 30 Technical Assistance activities; 3 Thematic Workshops; regional distributions include AFR, MCD, APD, WHD with placeholders
    - GFS/PSDS: 36 Technical Assistance activities; 3 Thematic Workshops; regional distributions include AFR, MCD, APD with placeholders
  - Big Data activity note: AFR Big Data: 1 and Region TBD: 2

### Module 2 (Financial Access Survey) and Module 3 (Online Learning)
- Module 2 (FAS) objectives and activities:
  - FAS revamp to strengthen relevance by capturing emerging dimensions of financial inclusion
  - Objective: provide more tailored support to countries
  - Pilot country: Uzbekistan
  - Workshops: 2 Regional and 1 virtual workshop
- Module 3 (Online Learning) objectives and activities:
  - Online Curriculum: 2 New Courses (Government Finance Statistics FSIx, QNA/HFIx, Producer/Export/Import Price Index, Monetary and Financial Statistics, Residential Property Price Index, Institutional Sector Accounts referenced)
  - New courses and updates: 2 Course Updates; 2 New Courses; emphasis on multilingual access (4 LANGUAGES) and Arabic translations
  - Standards updates included: BPM 7; SNA2025

### Module 4 (Data Standards, Data Use, SDMX) work plan
- Objectives:
  - Strengthen data governance frameworks
  - Enhance metadata and dissemination systems
  - Promote open and transparent data licensing
- SDMX and Data Standards activities:
  - Data Standards: 8 Technical Assistance activities; 2 Regional Workshops (APD: 1 and Region TBD: 1); regional distribution includes AFR: 2, MCD: 2, WHD: 1 (+ Placeholders: 3)
  - SDMX: 8 Technical Assistance activities; 3 Regional Workshops: AFR: 2 and Region TBD: 1; regional distribution APD: 3, WHD: 1, AFR: 2, MCD: 1 (+ Placeholders: 1)
- Data Use submodule phased in:
  - 1 Technical Assistance activity (Placeholder: 1)
  - 2 Workshops (1 Regional and 1 In-Country)
- Focus: SDMX implementation in sub-Saharan Africa and phased rollout of data-use diagnostics and engagement

### Moving from data production to data use and policy impact (Module 4 emphasis)
- Rationale:
  - D4D-II Mid-Term Evaluation highlighted need to strengthen data use, adoption, and measurable policy impact
  - D4D has strengthened data quality, statistical systems, analytical capacity, and dissemination practices; focus now shifts to ensuring data inform policy decisions and generate measurable impact
- Proposed approach and process:
  - Diagnose → Engage → Apply → Measure
  - Data-use diagnostics:
    - Stakeholder consultations
    - Readiness assessment
  - Stakeholder engagement:
    - Leadership alignment
    - Producer-user workshops
  - Policy simulations & pilots:
    - Scenario exercises
    - Coordinated response planning
  - Impact monitoring:
    - User surveys
    - Adoption indicators
    - Case studies
- Expected benefits:
  - Move beyond data production to data use and policy application
  - Strengthen institutional ownership and coordination around shared evidence
  - Improve decision-making, policy action, and measurable impact

### Country pilot scenario and use case (Inflation shock)
- Scenario: Inflation shock
- Participants:
  - Ministry of Finance
  - Central Bank
  - National Statistical Office
  - Other relevant agencies (as needed)
- Four-step workshop exercise:
  1. Interpret key indicators — review relevant macroeconomic and statistical data
  2. Assess policy options — discuss fiscal, monetary, and communication choices under uncertainty
  3. Coordinate response — align policy responses across institutions using shared evidence
  4. Communicate trade-offs — translate evidence into policy decisions and communicate implications
- Pilot outputs and lessons:
  - Bottlenecks identified (where data, roles, or processes slow decisions)
  - Coordination gaps identified and addressed
  - Shared response plan developed (practical steps for future shocks and CD support)
  - Recommendations for follow-up CD support and scaling
- Initial D4D pilot activities:
  - 2 workshops + 1 TA mission

### Module 5 (Environmental and Climate Change Statistics) work plan
- Objectives and activities:
  - Support countries in compiling macro-relevant environmental and climate change statistics
  - Align with international standards (SNA2025, BPM7, SEEA)
  - Diagnostic missions to assess needs and develop tailored workplans
  - Leverage Big Data and geospatial datasets
  - Foster inter-institutional collaboration
  - Draw on experiences of SECO pilot project
- Training and outreach:
  - New online learning course on Natural Resource Accounting
  - 5 Workshops including with COMESA/WAIFEM, WAEMU & UNECE
- Activity and regional distribution:
  - 15 Technical Assistance activities; Regional Distribution AFR: 6, MCD: 3, WHD: 1 (+ Placeholders: 5)

### Procedural issues, governance, and requests for endorsement
- Steering Committee endorsement requested by the IMF for:
  - D4D-II FY27-28Q2 Workplan and Budget (budget: $16,017,574) to implement an 18-month work plan
  - Flexibility for intra-regional workplan adjustments to enable quicker adaptation to evolving country demand
  - Rotation to the Chair for FY27: Chair Switzerland / Vice Chair Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

### Key questions for discussion (posed by the IMF)
- Is the proposed work plan:
  - Aligned with D4D-II objectives?
  - Appropriately scoped in size?
  - Geographically balanced?

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