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CPS2000 Agnes M. N. Ssekiboobo

g. Using new technologies (GIS, GPS, etc.), software and developing and
teaching new/appropriate methodologies and systems for data collection
and management.
h. Advocating for more intensive use of websites that provide training
materials like for Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
(FAO), UNECA and the World Bank. This helps SSP to have a point of
reference especially in as far implementing recommendations that may
be relevant to them are concerned. New methodologies that have been
developed as well as useful information for improving teaching materials
are available on these websites. Efforts are also being made to have
connectivity with the library resource centre of the Uganda Bureau of
Statistics.
i. Introducing internship/field attachment for all the students in addition to
the research project that all students have to undertake as a partial
requirement for the award of their degrees.
j. Improving the quality of teaching, learning and research environment (in
terms of physical infrastructure, staffing, information technology, etc.).
k. Using of holistic approaches (statistical consistency and integration
frameworks as teaching frameworks - national accounting, satellite
accounts, integrated information systems, etc.).
l. Improving the quality of research and community services including
generating greater awareness about role of statistics to society.
m. Developing/strengthening partnerships for statistical training and
research. It is well recognized that most institutions and systems in Africa
need to be nurtured and further strengthened. One way of doing this is
to build partnerships for statistical development including twinning
arrangements. Partnerships have been enhanced between the SSP and
other units within the University, between the SSP and user countries,
between academic statisticians at universities and training centres on the
one hand and official statisticians working in NSOs on the other, and
between training centres [Eastern Africa Statistical Training Centre
(EASTC), Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania; Ecole Nationale Supérieure de
Statistique et d’Economie Appliquée (ENSEA), Abidjan and of recent
Institut Sous-regional de Statistique et d’Economie Appliquée ISSEA-
Yaoundé and in the near future, Institut National de Statistique et
d’Economie Appliquée (INSEA) –Rabat]. The twinning arrangements
between the SSP and other STCs have been limited but of recent have
been enhanced by the UNECA/African Development Bank funded project
on Improving Statistics for Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and
Rural Development in Africa: Support to the Global Strategy that the SSP
has benefited from. Experiences obtained from other training institutions

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