Analysis of the Statistical Systems in the OCTs and recommendations aiming at enhancing Statistical Systems of OCTs : Final Report

Recently, EU Commission adopted a decision to fund a Technical Cooperation Facility for OCTs in order to improve their capacities to formulate and implement key territorial policies. Improvement in statistical capacities appeared with a high rank. Indeed, OCTs have noticed several gaps in their statistical systems as well as a lack of comparability of their statistics. Therefore, the Executive Committee (ExCo) of the Association of Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTA)initiated a statistical project with the aim of strengthening the capability of OCTs to manage the development of their economies with the requisite information, as well as obtaining more comparable data to monitor and measure the impacts of EDF initiatives on OCTs economies. The Commission is also interested in the improvement of the statistics it uses at the different steps of the project management cycle. Improvement of statistics would also allow the EU to better assess the effectiveness of its investment. Based on this recognized need for good statistics, specialised consultancy services have been requested by OCTA with a twofold objective: providing all stakeholders with an assessment of the statistical systems in the OCTs,and exploring potential support to OCTs in this field.