SHASA II: A new strategy for the harmonization of statistics in Africa
The strategy brings clarity and coherence for collective action and decision-making purposes. It is based on plans and sets of choices aimed at mobilizing individuals and can often be reinforced both by concrete rewards when objectives are achieved, and by sanctions in the opposite case. The African context of statistical production is marked by the absence of a consensual methodology for producing comparable databases between countries. And even within a country, it can have different data for the same domain. This made the first version of the Strategy for the Harmonization of Statistics in Africa (SHASA I) obsolete and unusable. The adoption of the 2063 Agenda of the African Union (AU), which declines the continent's vision for half a century from 2013, led the AU to revise SHASA I for the enlargement and availability of databases. data to reach all sectors for consequent policy making. SHASA II prescribes for all AU member countries a standard for producing comparable statistics. It was launched on July 11, 2018 at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and will form the roadmap for the Stat-Afric, the newly created UA statistics hub that will be based in Tunis. (in Tunisia).
