The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) has unveiled the second edition of the National Standard Indicators (NSI) Framework for levels 1 and 2.
This is to track the targets of the various national development frameworks.
The document entails different indicators that guide tracking Uganda’s progress towards achieving national, regional, continental and global development agendas using a hierarchy of results approach.
Speaking at the unveiling on Friday, James Muwonge, the director of Methodology at UBOS, said the document was developed in collaboration with the National Planning Authority (NPA), the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) and the Ministry of Finance.
He explained that the information contained in this NSI will help in informing the national framework as well as measuring the progress of the country as far as attaining development goals is concerned.
“This is the information that informs the national framework and the National Development Plan. It also informs the Sustainable Development Goals. It also informs the East African Community Agenda 2050,” Muwonge said.
He added, “So, we wanted to come out with the framework which can be used to inform all these others instead of coming up with different indicators for each of the frameworks, and coming together and agreeing on a common network is something which we have been working on.
Muwonge further revealed that UBOS plans to engage ministries, and different government agencies to look at the outputs because what they do largely gives the bureau outputs which feed into the outcomes.
“We will see how we can support them to come with indicators which are good for measuring up the progress in the country.”
Thomas Lutalo, the head of the Department for Outreach and Quality Assurance at UBOS says the framework was developed to address data inconsistencies among government departments.
He added that the framework was developed on recommendations of the evaluations of the first National Development Plan (NDP) I and PNSD I which revealed inconsistencies, incomparability and gaps in the data and indicators produced and submitted by MDAs to the oversight agencies.
“The evaluations further underlined the need to define a national set of indicators to address the challenge and facilitate evidence-based planning, budgeting, resource allocation and performance measurement for various government programmes.” lutalo said.
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