The objective of this project is to provide technical and financial support to the Directorate of Statistical and Information Service to secure the sustainability of the statistical services provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food beyond 2001. USAID through the IFDC/Assistance to Albanian Agricultural Trade Associations (AAATA) project has provided limited financial and technical support to The Directorate of Statistics and Information (DSI) to establish a prioritized level of sustainable activity in agricultural statistics in Albania. These services are currently being provided to the central, district, and prefecture statistical offices of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Albania (MOAF).

Under this project, technical assistance and training has been provided in areas of statistics, software management, and survey analysis needed by DSI/MOAF. Basic activities within the present support project have included, among others, the following areas:

• Assistance in service organization

• Development of field expertise in agricultural surveys

• Training of personnel in areas of statistics, data processing, survey development, software development, and economic analysis

• Planning of future activities, budget analysis, and determination of software and equipment requirements

(For more information on this work, contact Dr. Julio Henao—jhenao@ifdc.org)

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