Paris 21

Established in November 1999 by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank, the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund, and the United Nations, PARIS21 is a response to the UN Economic and Social Council resolution on the goals of the UN Conference on Development. The Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) was launched to act as a catalyst for promoting a culture of evidence-based policy-making and monitoring in all countries, especially in developing countries.

The PARIS21 consortium is a partnership of policy-makers, analysts, and statisticians from all countries of the world. It focuses on promoting high-quality statistics, making those data meaningful, and designing sound policies. The role of PARIS21 is to foster more effective dialogue among those who produce development statistics and those who use them, through facilitating international events, supporting country-based activities, regional workshops, and subject-matter task teams.

Consortium members are from governments, international organisations, professional bodies, and academic institutions around the world. They have practical experience and a desire to collaborate to improve policymaking through reliable, pertinent statistics. PARIS21 is serviced by a small secretariat hosted by the Development Co-operation Directorate in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, France.

The Metagora pilot project is coordinated and administered within the PARIS21 consortium.

For further information, please consult the web site of the consortium at www.paris21.org/.