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be away for a long period of time but also more people can be trained
using this training method.
d) Training in management. Managers of the SSP need to use modern
management principles and practices in their work especially in planning,
work programming and budgeting, proposals and report writing. All staff
with management responsibilities will be given training in these principles.
e) Rigorous marketing of SSP. The Dean of the School should be seen
attending key sub-regional, regional and international meetings, symposia
and conferences as a way of marketing the SSP and foster networking
arrangements.
f) It is necessary that scholarships are made available at postgraduate level
in order to build capacity in the different areas of specialization. This is
because there are no government scholarships for graduate students.
g) A foundational course on official statistics should be put in place for all
students both undergraduate and postgraduate to cover national and
international development frameworks, integration frameworks, data
sources and data quality frameworks, sources of data for indicators and
their development, statistical ethics and legislation. In addition other areas
to put emphasis on include qualitative assessments, gender responsive
statistics, measuring progress, etc.
h) The need to develop statistical capacity at different levels of local
government must be taken up by SSP so as to include in the school’s
training agenda a sub-national orientation that caters for the training
demands of statistical personnel in local government.
i) The trainers especially for short courses should recognize the experience
of the trainees and build on it so that they connect prior experience to
learning and build on it by relating it to current job responsibilities. This
will ensure that the staff of statistical agencies and units have the
knowledge, skills and technical competencies they need and that these
competencies are kept up to date.
j) A Needs Assessment should be undertaken among users of statistics as
well as employers of the products of STCs and universities, to ensure that
what is demanded is actually going to be used. Demand and supply
information is important to training providers and statistical agencies. The
training plan so developed would then translate the requirements of the
Statistical Systems into specific qualification profiles of staff or other
people for whom training is then called for. This should then avoid
problems such as:
i. Having the right training for the wrong people.
ii. Having the right training for the right people only to go back and
they cannot use their new skills, and

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