Data for Decision Making Project

The OECS Data for Decision-Making Project (DDM), a 5-year project, operating out of the Office of the Director General; is an initiative led by the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission. The project benefits the following OECS Member States: Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and the Commonwealth of Dominica.
Funded by the World Bank Group, the DDM aims to:

Enhance the availability and accessibility of data to facilitate informed decision-making across the region.
Improve the capacity of participating countries to produce and publicly disseminate statistical data for country and regional-level analytics.
Provide an immediate and effective response to an eligible emergency allowing for considerable economies of scale and facilitate positive spillovers.

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States's pressreleases

Symposium on Economic Statistics and ISIC Standards Concludes with Strong Commitment to Data Quality

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States's pressreleases

A Bright Future for Data and Statistics in the OECS

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States's pressreleases

OECS, CDB and World Bank Partner to Fight Poverty

Re-inventing Data and Statistics in the OECS

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States's pressreleases

OECS Celebrates Caribbean Statistics Day

#	Achievements
1	Creation of the OECS RDGC
2	Support for the Harmonised OECS LFS through the RDGC 24 June 2024, day one of a 4 day meeting of the RDGC, held in Florida witnessed the unanimous decision towards acceptance and adoption of the new core version of the LFS questionnaire for implementation, a significant milestone for Member States.
3	Training in weighting and sampling – scholarship for an online course – ILO
4	Training in Data Anonymisation – eCPA and DDM
5	Training in data documentation
6	Education Thematic Report
7	Regional Statistical Bulletins –Youth and the elderly
8	Training in Arc GIS – in collaboration with Caricom
9	Addressing the problems in Eurotrace in the country

Generation of Trade Statistics Back on Track

Central Statistical Offices in Saint Lucia and Grenada can now resume the processing of trade statistics. This is as a result of training and capacity building of Trade and IT personnel and the resolving of critical issues in the Eurotrace system during the month of October 2024. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is underwent this 2024 within their Central Statistical Office.

The objective of the 5-day in-country trainings was to train personnel involved in generating trade statistics while troubleshooting the Eurotrace system to resolve existing problems as well as to:

Migrate the current access-based system to SQL server version of Eurotrace to allow for space to continue the uploading of data in the system.
Update the dictionaries within the Eurotrace system to reflect current data.
Update the Eurotrace system structure to accommodate for the new data structure of the new tariff.
Update the SITC and HS classifications to reflect current data.
Enhance the capacity of trade statisticians to generate trade statistics from the system and manage basic software issues

Resources

Access more resources on Data for Decision Making Project in the Eastern Caribbean and Regional Data Governance Council

Partners

The Data for Decision-Making Project is being implemented in partnership with the International Development Association (IDA), the National Statistical Offices, the CARICOM Regional Statistical Programme and the CDB-funded Enhanced Country Poverty Assessment Project.