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### Modules Overview
- Modules and budgets:
  - Module M1: Addressing Data Needs and Quality Concerns (Real Sector Statistics, External Sector Statistics, Fiscal and Debt Reporting, Source Data and Intermediate Statistics) — USD 19-21 million.
  - Module M2: Financial Access Survey (FAS) — USD 4-5 million.
  - Module M3: Online Learning — USD 5-7 million.
  - Module M4: Statistical Information Management (SIM) — USD 1-1.5 million.
- M1 submodules and focus areas:
  - Real Sector Statistics (RSS): Residential Property Price Indexes (RPPIs), High-Frequency Indicators (HFIs), Source Data and Intermediate Statistics.
  - External Sector Statistics (ESS): Current Account BOP (CA BOP), Financial Account BOP (FA BOP).
  - Fiscal and Debt Reporting: Government Finance Statistics (GFS), Public Sector Debt Statistics (PSDS).
- Additional module-level budgets:
  - RSS — USD 6-7 million.
  - GFS/PSDS — USD 7 million.
  - ESS — USD 6-7 million.

### General Issues and Delivery Model
- Phasing of workstreams across fiscal years (FY2019–FY2023) with M2, M3, M4, and M1 activities scheduled and sustained over multiple years.
- Key lessons learned:
  - Diagnostic workshops produce country-owned work plans serving as foundations for efficient, impactful, and sustainable TA.
  - Close engagement with IMF country teams focuses statistics work on the most urgent economic risks.
  - Complementarity and coordination with other IMF CD vehicles and other CD providers multiply CD impact.
- Role of diagnostic workshops:
  - Diagnostic assessments of need and capacity of country authorities.
  - Training covering rationale, source data, methodology, compilation methods, and dissemination options.
  - Peer learning and exchange on best practices among countries with similar challenges.
  - Country work plans include baseline practices, mode of CD delivery, synergies with other CD providers, measures to address implementation risks, and endorsement by country authorities.
  - Work plans contain reform proposals, hands-on training using authorities’ own data, and assessment of progress versus country log frame milestones.
- Staffing/recruitment to support CD delivery:
  - D4D Program Manager.
  - One economist for PSDS CD.
  - Two financial sector experts for the FAS.

### Progress Achieved (FY19) — Activity Counts and Coverage
- CD activities from initial Steering Committee (SC) in June 2018 to April 2019 (9 months):
  - 7 workshops with 56 participating countries (43 different countries).
  - 23 TA missions in 19 different countries.
- Regional participation snapshot:
  - Representatives from 56 countries participated in 7 regional workshops.
  - 19 countries benefitted from TA missions.

### M1 Real Sector Statistics — Residential Property Price Indexes (RPPIs)
- Strategic outcome:
  - Strengthened compilation and dissemination of RPPIs, including improvements in statistical infrastructure, source data, serviceability and metadata.
- FY19 delivery:
  - AF R: 4 TA missions.
  - APD: 4 TA missions.
  - MCD, WHD: regional engagements and workshops.
- FY20-21 plan:
  - 5 TA missions (continuation in Indonesia, Vietnam, Mongolia).
  - Workshops in AFR and MCD to expand regional coverage and identify TA candidates based on country work plans.
- Demand and impact:
  - Strong demand, particularly from Asia (Indonesia, Vietnam, Mongolia).
  - Quick start addressing risks from real estate booms.

### M1 Real Sector Statistics — High-Frequency Indicators (HFIs)
- Strategic outcome:
  - Strengthened compilation and dissemination of well-defined HFIs of economic activity.
- FY19 delivery:
  - 1 TA mission and 1 workshop in AFR/APD; 3 TA missions in other regions.
- FY20-21 plan:
  - Multiple workshops under way or planned in anglophone AFR and APD in Q4 FY19, and planned for MCD and francophone/lusophone AFR in FY20-21.
  - Tentative TA candidates for FY20-21: Lao P.D.R., Mongolia, Sri Lanka.
- Notable findings:
  - Innovative TA using retail sector scanner data in Indonesia offers a cost-effective option to compile HFIs.
  - Three TA missions under way in Q4 FY19 to improve existing HFIs (Jordan, Uganda, Vietnam).

### M1 Real Sector Statistics — Source Data and Intermediate Statistics (GDP/SPPI)
- Strategic outcomes:
  - Improved national accounts data, including informal and digital economy estimates.
  - Reduced large revisions from periodic national accounts re-basing.
  - Improved sectoral decompositions and cross-sectoral linkages.
  - New SPPI series to differentiate productivity-driven price changes from general inflationary changes.
- FY19 delivery:
  - 1 workshop (SPPI) and 6 TA missions across regions.
- FY20-21 plan:
  - Thematic workshop in FY20 on SPPIs for countries with rapidly expanding services sectors.
  - Workshop on survey techniques planned for FY20; administrative data work to start once bilateral donor projects phase out in FY21.
- Country examples:
  - Integrated macroeconomic statistics work in Uganda, Kosovo, Moldova improved GDP through better understanding of financial flows; work in Moldova resulted in data revisions relevant for financial sector stability regulations.
- Data illustration:
  - Contributions of service activities to the economy for selected countries (Bhutan, Nigeria, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda) comparing 2010 and 2017.

### M1 External Sector Statistics — Current and Financial Account BOP
- Strategic outcomes:
  - Current Account: More accurate and comprehensive data on international trade in goods and services to inform global value chains and digital economy impacts.
  - Financial Account: Strengthened analysis of cross-border risks via improved scope of financial account components and remittances coverage.
- FY19 delivery:
  - TA missions (Kenya, Uzbekistan) addressed BOP errors of several percentage points of GDP, correcting misleading pictures of external sustainability.
- FY20-21 plan:
  - Multiple TA missions and workshops customized to priority challenges identified in FY19 diagnostic workshop.
- Countries tentatively identified for follow-up TA:
  - Lower ESS capacity: Uzbekistan, Kenya, Madagascar, Afghanistan.
  - More advanced ESS capacity: Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Philippines (including remittances via mobile money transaction surveys).

### M1 Fiscal & Debt Reporting — GFS
- Strategic outcomes:
  - High-frequency GFS with improved quality, frequency, and timeliness to support fiscal policy-makers, IMF surveillance, and public fiscal transparency.
- FY19 delivery:
  - 2 TA missions in AFR addressing serious reporting problems and fiscal risks (Ghana, Comoros).
- FY20-21 plan:
  - Five TA slots available to react to urgent needs requested by countries or identified by IMF country teams.
- Note:
  - High threshold for TA; workstream backloaded.

### M1 Fiscal & Debt Reporting — PSDS
- Strategic outcomes:
  - High-frequency PSDS, including contingent liabilities and arrears, to assess debt sustainability and fiscal risks, and to improve transparency and IMF/World Bank PSDS database inputs.
- FY19 delivery:
  - Bilateral TA for countries with serious debt challenges: Zambia, Zimbabwe, Liberia.
  - Prototype diagnostic workshop for AFR region with work plans being finalized.
- FY20-21 plan:
  - 18 TA missions to be identified based on workshop findings enabled by hiring of an additional PSDS expert.
- FY19–FY20-21 planned delivery:
  - Multiple workshops and TA missions across AFR, APD, MCD, WHD, WHD and EUR regions (counts include 2 workshops, 11 TA missions in AFR FY20-21; other regional allocations as listed).

### M2 Financial Access Survey (FAS)
- Achievements of 2018 FAS:
  - Mainstreaming of the gender-data pilot (35 countries report).
  - Introduction of new series, e.g., on “branchless banking”.
  - Increasing demand from users.
- Improvements planned for 2019 FAS:
  - Further increase response rates.
  - Integrate FAS work with CD through workshops to provide methodological training to compilers.
  - Streamline data series where regulatory setups limit cross-country comparability.
  - Respond to new technological trends and data demands:
    - Collect data on value/volume of mobile and internet banking transactions.
    - Collect data on costs of financial services (e.g., account opening fees) directly from banks’ websites.
    - Widen coverage for gender data.
- Strategic outcomes:
  - Continued production of FAS providing long time series on financial access.
  - Production of new data series to address rapidly changing needs with broader coverage and scope.
  - Basis for monitoring SDG financial inclusion indicator 8.10.1.
  - Contribution to research and policy agenda on financial inclusion.
- FY19–FY20-21 delivery:
  - Workshops planned in AFR and MCD; FY19 pre-D4D Fund prototype workshop to be replicated in FY20 in MCD.

### M3 Online Learning
- Strategic outcomes:
  - Development and implementation of a new online training curriculum covering eight fundamental statistical topical courses.
  - Translation into up to 5 languages, depending on resources.
  - Certification from online training established as an entry requirement to improve efficiency of face-to-face intermediate and advanced training.
- Progress and production schedule:
  - Work on PSDS online learning course launched, with three courses planned to be completed by August 2020.
  - Pedagogical framework features:
    - Attractive visuals for concise methodology presentation.
    - Interactive activities for peer-to-peer discussion.
    - Flexible navigation between basic and advanced lessons for heterogeneous learners.

### M4 Statistical Information Management (SIM)
- Strategic outcomes:
  - Disseminate and facilitate implementation of best practices in statistical data and metadata management and related frameworks.
  - Transfer knowledge on governance structures.
  - Provide information on suitable technical standards and statistical information models.
  - Offer advice on project design.
- FY19 delivery:
  - Two TA missions planned to: support Bank of Tunisia on streamlining data exchange (including via IMF NSDP) and assess data dissemination; assist Bank of Lebanon in improving exchange of data and metadata using modern IT.
- FY20-21 plan:
  - Missions planned for Nauru and Vietnam in FY20 (scope to be determined via preparatory video conferences).
  - Placeholder country for FY21 to be determined upon substantiation of expressed interest.
- Global coverage:
  - One worldwide (TBD) TA mission placeholder.

### Fast Forward: Projected D4D Fund Progress by July 2020
- Intended cumulative CD delivery from initial SC in June 2018 to July 2020 (24 months):
  - 18 Workshops to train and assist country representatives in preparing country-owned work plans.
  - 86 TA missions to advance reforms in all LLMICs.
- Regional projected delivery (FY19–21 highlights):
  - AFR: 8 Workshops (RPPI, HFI, GDP/SPPI, PSDS); 30 TA missions (RPPI, HFI, GDP/SPPI, ESS, GFS/PSDS).
  - APD: 3 Workshops (HFI, GDP/SPPI, PSDS); 25 TA missions (RPPI, HFI, ESS, GFS/PSDS, SIM).
  - MCD: 4 Workshops (RPPI, HFI, ESS, PSDS); 17 TA missions (RPPI, HFI, ESS, GFS/PSDS, SIM).
  - WHD: 1 Workshop (PSDS); 3 TA missions (RPPI, HFI, GDP/SPPI).
  - EUR: 2 Workshops (GDP/SPPI, ESS); 7 TA missions (ESS, GFS/PSDS, SIM).
  - Worldwide (TBD): 4 TA missions (GDP/SPPI).

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