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STS479 Ola A.
II. National level (Institutionalisation)
On the national level, PCBS worked hard to enhance the capacity of the
national statistical system, and enhance the stakeholders' engagement in
production, and dissemination of statistics and not only the classical role
related to use of statistics as follows:
 Creating a high-level committee for SDGs headed by Prime Minister Office
responsible for aligning SDGs with national priorities reflected in the
National Policy Agenda 2017-2022.
 Creating a national technical team headed by PCBS responsible to fulfill
the requirements of national priorities of SDGs.
 PCBS Advisory Council for Official Statistics headed by the Prime Minister,
which increases the awareness, support, and common understanding of
statistics for politicians and decision makers which lead to securing
government support and financing with statistical independency.

III. International level (Partnership)
Being Part of the international dialogue and strong partnership with
different international institutions represented a learning process and
evolutionary changing process to reach new eras and boost modernisation:
 PCBS is a member of the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination
and Capacity-Building for statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, which put Palestine as key players in seeking change and
development.
 Best practices exchange between national statistical institutions, by
twining procedure, a good example for that is with ISTAT which helped in
creating the mapping matrix of SDGs, and creation of the “Palestine SDGs
Data Dissemination Platform”.
 Open data watch report, PCBS was ranked as 56 on the world in meeting
data openness and 4th in the Middle East Region, which is done by
working on enabling and improving means and coverage
 UNSD-DFID project platform, allows the dissemination of data for better
monitoring of SDGs as reflected in figure 1:

Figure 1: PCBS propose implementation process for UNSD-DFID project
platform

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