Workshop on 'Finalising sector-wise standard indicators' held

The finalised lists of indicators would provide imperative guidance for decision-making enabling the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government in translating knowledge into manageable information, and to measure and standardise progress towards development goals while providing precautionary insights for corrective measures in the development process.
Dr Amber Ali Khan, Chief Economist and Provincial Project Director, Strengthening PRS Monitoring Project, Planning and Development Department of GoKP, remarked during one-day consultative workshop on "Finalising sector-wise standard indicators" organised by Strengthening PRS Monitoring Project of UNDP in collaboration with Provincial Bureau of Statistics, GoKP here on Tuesday.
The purpose of the workshop was to review these indicators developed by Bureau of Statistics, GoKP, get the feedback of stakeholders such as senior representatives of relevant provincial departments including education, health, population welfare and demography, Social welfare, women development, Zakat and Usher besides many national and international organisations such as WHO, SDPI and independent development partners to bring further improvements in the standardisation of these indicators to make them more inclusive, representative and responsive to the varying development needs of citizens of KP.
He said that the effort of establishing all encompassing set of indicators for all the Sectors and Sub-sectors can be traced back to the evolution of Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper in general and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper II in particular which has greatly emphasised the importance of a well-shaped Monitoring and Evaluation Framework equipped with properly elaborated input, output and outcome indicators. "This effort would provide GoKP a solid basis for informed decision making as well as the opportunity to measure the progress on developmental front through developing the input-output and outcome relationship," he added.
Sajjad Ahmad Sheikh, National Project Manager, Strengthening PRS Monitoring Project, Finance Division, Government of Pakistan and UNDP, presided over the proceedings and maintained that there had been a strong urge as well as efforts in the past to ensure effective monitoring and evaluation mechanisms for the public sector development work in the province. The thrust of this exercise was to analyse the already developed indicators on different sectors making them appropriate to gauge the performance of public sector performance as well as efficiency of investment while keeping in view the inputs, outputs, outcomes and impact relationship.