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Browsing: Harmonizing and Improving Statistics in West Africa (HISWA)
The World Bank gave $379 million to help balance and strengthen statistical systems in seven West African countries.
The seven countries include Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Cabo Verde, Togo and Liberia.
The project “Harmonizing and Improving Statistics in West Africa (HISWA)’ is funded by the International Development Association (IDA) credits and grants.
The project key objective is to strengthen the statistical systems of the participating countries, regional and sub-regional bodies, in order to help them balance, produce, distribute and enhance the use of core social and economic statistics.
With World Bank’s efforts to deepen regional integration in Africa, the funding will also support the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU).
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“High-quality and harmonised statistics are essential to support economic activity and regional integration as a way to address …