Ongoing projects

Project: Planning a new institutional cooperation project with Ethiopia/Statistical development - institutional cooperation between Statistics Norway (SSB) and the Ethiopian Statistics Service (ESS).

Purpose: Increased use of official statistics for evidence-based decision making and increased trust in official statistics.

Period: September 2021 – March 2026

Project: Institutional Cooperation under the Tax for Development program.

Purpose: Improve the quality of statistics and increase the capacity to perform fiscal policy analysis and research to assist Ghana to build a strong and resilient economy.

Period: 2024 – 2027

Project: Oceans for Development.

Purpose: Development of ocean accounts and the use of the information from the accounts for planning and policymaking.

Period: 2024 - 2028

Project: Institutional cooperation project between the State Department for Economic Planning (SDEP) and SSB under the Tax for Development programme.

Purpose: To strengthen SDEP’s skills in macroeconomic analysis, modelling, and the use of national statistics for economic planning.

Period: 2024 - 2027

Project: Pre-project: institutional cooperation under the Tax for Development programme.

Purpose: Develop capacity for producing relevant economic statistics to analyse the economy at a macro level.

Period: 2022 - 2023

Project: Tax for Development.

Purpose: Development of the partner institutions’ ability to produce and disseminate official statistics on a regular basis, and to develop capacity on macroeconomic analysis.

Period: 2024 - 2027

Project: Statistical development cooperation

Purpose: Strengthen the capacity of Mozambique’s National Institute of Statistics (INE) to produce and communicate high-quality official statistics, so that statistical data becomes a reliable foundation for evidence-based decision-making, economic planning, and public debate.

Period: 2025 - 2027

Project: Statistical development cooperation. Part of the revenue component of the Oil for Development programme IN Mozambique.

Purpose: Develop statistical capacity and make available relevant statistics for all users to enable analysis as well as a fact base for public discussions on management of both revenue and the sector in general.

Period: 2020 - 2023

Project: Impact of Access to Sustainable Energy Survey (IASES).

Purpose: Contribute to the SE4All initiative for measuring energy access, provide data for policy development, develop modern survey tools measuring impact of access adjusting for effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and develop the capacity of the national statistical offices on energy relevant statistics.

Period: 2018 - 2024

Project: Tax for Development.

Purpose: Contribute to an improved and efficient tax system through the improvement of the National statistics system and the National statistics office.

Period: 2024 - 2027

Project: Gender Equality for Development.
Purpose: Gender statistics and data.

Period: 2020 - 2025

Project: Institutional cooperation under the Oil for Development Programme.
Purpose: Improve the capacity of UBOS to produce and disseminate petroleum related statistics.

Period: 2019 - 2024

Project: Statistical development – institutional cooperation between Statistics Norway and State Statistics Service of Ukraine.

Purpose: Contribute to evidence-based planning for optimal resource allocation and improved welfare across the Ukrainian society.

Period: 2017 - 2025

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is an important parter on the Food Security Statistics project and the NADABAS project.

The African Union Institute for Statistics (STATAFRIC) is an important parter on the Food Security Statistics project and the NADABAS project.

For more information on the different projects, see the Annual Report 2025 for International development cooperation in Statistics Norway.

Completed projects

Project: Gender Equality for Development.

Purpose: Gender statistics and data.

Period: 2020 - 2024

Project: Institutional cooperation.

Purpose: Institutional and individual capacity sharing.

Period: 2017 - 2020 (2023)

Project: Impact of Access to Sustainable Energy Survey (IASES).

Purpose: Contribute to the SE4All initiative for measuring energy access, provide data for policy development, develop modern survey tools measuring impact of access adjusting for effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and develop the capacity of the national statistical offices on energy relevant statistics.

Period: 2018 - 2024