Session II Cooperation in monitoring SDGs at

regional and global level

Viveka Palm

Dep Director Regions and Environment

Adj professor KTH, Stockholm

Contributors to the session

• UNSD: The way forward, framework and reporting• OHCHR: The need for new indicators on human

rights, disaggregation• OECD: offers methods, data, platform • Eurostat: Experience from the EU SD work to

harmonise and communicate indicators bottom-up, capacity building

Aim of the session

• Specifying the involvement of the international statistical system for coordination and communication with other involved parties in the process of defining indicators and filling data gaps.

• Clarifying important international activities in the SDG process that require enhanced cooperation.

• Discussing who does what in the years to come.

The 17 goals to be measured1. Poverty

2. Agriculture, food security

3. Health

4. Education

5. Gender

6. Water

7. Energy

8. Growth and employment

9. Infrastructure and innovation

10. Inequality

11. Cities

12. Sustainable production and consumption

13. Climate change

14. Marine areas

15. Land degradation and biodiversity loss

16. Peace, justice

17. Governance – including statistical capacity

Basic human needs

Economy

Environment

Society

The statistics community can produce a substantial part of the indicatorsa) produce the basic statistics for the reportingb) support in the interpretation of the trendsc) support in capacity building with technical help for countries that lack basic reportingd) support by developing the broader measures that will be needed for a sustainable analysis in the long terme) support with advice for the indicators that will be better produced outside of national statistical offices.

OECD offers

• experience with the development and implementation of measures of well-being and sustainability.

• input to global monitoring, data, methods, platform• statistical R&D to help to fill gaps• support to capacity building

Eurostat

• Monitors the EU Sustainable Development Strategy which was built bottom-up from the countries in EU and EFTA.

• Is committed to contribute to the process of establishing a new SDG monitoring framework.

• Can contribute experience from the work programme of European Statistics with many components of capacity building and development of methodologies for statistics, accounts and indicators.

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights• how to develop statistics for equality and non-

discrimination. Much can be learned from existing collaborative initiatives of official statistics and human rights community.

• Calls for disaggregation, human rights standards, participation, data collection safeguards and accountability framework on expanding data sources to account for the experiences of the most marginalized populations.

A way forward on the international scene?1. A ’short’ list of headline indicators to be reported -

noting the indicators which countries can not produce and which are estimated by international organizations

2. A mapping on new indicators to be developed in the coming years

3. A database that can provide necessary disaggregation

4. Communication about the developmental work and linking this with statistical capacity building

Summary of activities

• Develop internationally harmonised indicators for the new themes.

• Deepen the communication between the statistical community and other data providers; such as the researchers and the organisations that are part of the development process.

• Make disaggregated statistics available for analyses between the different themes while keeping confidentiality of source data; modelling.

• Communicate who does what and when: develop action plan?

Questions to the authors – choose one question now and we take the second during the discussion afterwards

• What are the important first steps that you see in the coming years?

• Lessons learned about the work so far, regarding the disaggregation into different population groups?