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In its accelerated drive to modernise and transform the Trinidad and Tobago Public Service, the Ministry of Public Administration has finalised a contract between Statistics Sweden and the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago for the reorganisation and restructuring of the Central Statistical Office. The contract was signed on 02 February 2012 at the Minister’s office in the Ministry’s NALIS Building.

The move is in line with the Government’s Framework for Sustainable Development which is centered on seven inter-connected pillars. The signing helped strengthen two specific pillars, including Pillar 4: Information and Communication Technologies – Connecting T&T and Building the New Economy and Pillar 5: A More Diversified Knowledge Intensive Economy. These pillars represent the core functions of the Central Statistical Office (CSO).

Becoming a high performing agency with executive status is at the forefront for the CSO. This restructuring is high on the agenda of initiatives for transformation of the economy. Strengthening, resourcing and re-organising the Central Statistical Office to ensure the provision of accurate and meaningful information in a timely and efficient manner is essential to providing the statistical infrastructure and empirical information base for informing policy decision making and planning for sustainable development.

Statistics Sweden is a public authority organized and existing under the laws of the Kingdom of Sweden and is situated in Stockholm Sweden.  The broad objectives of this consultancy are:

1. To provide support to CSO to perform a study on the supply and demand of statistical information within and outside the country, and define core products of the agency,

2. To define the most appropriate organizational structure of the new National Statistical Institute and to give dimensions to the new structure in terms of human resources that will be necessary accordingly.

3. To provide the necessary human resource and technical expertise to drive the process of transformation, and

4. To develop the IT Master plan for CSO in order to align the mission of the proposed re-organization to the new IT system.

This consultancy will be one of several projects in an overall Transformation Program of the CSO and they fall under the purview of the Ministry of Planning and Economy. The Ministry of Public Administration (MPA) is the executing agency for the Public Sector Reform Initiation Programme and the eGovernment and Knowledge Brokering funding from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

The CSO project is being funded with the use of the IDB loan resources. For this reason, MPA, the CSO and its parent Ministry have been jointly working on this initiative with support from other stakeholders. Additionally, contract management and project management oversight for the Consultancy would be provided by the MPA.

The project officially starts on the 9th February 2012, at the Statistics Sweden home office in Stockholm and the first team is scheduled to arrive in Trinidad on the 19th March 2012.

Programme Management Division MPA Dated 6th February 2012