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Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals: CIS Countries' View on Global Indicators

This article discusses the CIS countries' perspective on the global list of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators. It examines the relevance, methodology, data availability, planned data collection, and wording refinement of the indicators. The article concludes that a selective approach is needed for assessing SDG achievements in the CIS region and suggests the region's consolidated assessment as a landmark for refining global indicators.

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Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals: CIS Countries' View on Global Indicators

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  1. Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS-Stat) Global SDG indicators in the CIS region Andrey E. Kosarev Deputy Chairman of the CIS-Stat International conference on the implementation of the national SDGs monitoring system Bishkek September 19-20, 2016

  2. Key issues • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) • Statistical measurement of SDGs • CIS countries’ view • Conclusions 2

  3. Sustainable Development Goals General Assembly of the United Nations (September 2015): Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). All UN member states signed the “2030 Agenda for sustainable development”. “Agenda ”: 17 goals covering 169 targets. Implementation of “Agenda” will be evaluated using a list of indicators and published in annual reports. 3

  4. Statistical measurement of SDGs (1/2) UN Statistical Commission (46th session, March 2015):Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals Indicators (IAEG-SDGs), installed to develop indicators’ system to monitor SDGs achievements.Members: UN member states, international organizations and institutions. UN Statistical Commission (47th session, March 2016): list of SDGs indicatorsproposed by the IAEG-SDGs is approved as a starting point for the future technical refinement (E/2016/24 -E/CN.3/2016/34, 47/101-d). The proposed list includes 231 indicators; it should become the basisfor worldwide monitoring of achievements ofSDGs. The list is to be presented for approval by General Assembly of the United Nations in September 2016. 4

  5. Statistical measurement of SDGs (2/2) Bearing in mind the fundamental importance of work to achieve SDGs, CIS NSOs should be enabled to represent the national results productively in the upcoming World Monitoring. A correct assessment system is needed. To what extend the global list of SDGs indicators is applicablein the CIS region? The CIS-Stat held a special survey based on a Questionnaire on SDGs indicators in order to identify and summarize the view of the CIS countries. The replies were received during June-August 2016. 5

  6. CIS countries’ view (1/7) • CIS-Stat survey uses 5 criteria. • CIS countriesprovided answers (“Yes” / “No”) for each indicator, to the following questions: • - is the indicator relevant? • - is there methodology for the indicator? • - are there data for the indicator? • - is data collection for the indicator planned? • - is wording refinement needed for the indicator? • Summarized replies (as of September 1, 2016) allow to characterize the CIS NSOs general view on the list of indicators currently proposed for the forthcoming SDGs monitoring. 6

  7. CIS countries’ view (2/7) 1. Is the indicator relevant? Full support by CIS countries – 97indicators Partial supportby CIS countries – 117indicators 7

  8. CIS countries’ view (3/7) 2. Is there methodology for the indicator? Full support by CIS countries – 43indicators Partial supportby CIS countries – 76indicators 8

  9. CIS countries’ view (4/7) 3. Are there data for the indicator? Full support by CIS countries – 44indicators Partial supportby CIS countries – 109indicators 9

  10. CIS countries’ view (5/7) 4.Is data collection for the indicator planned? Full support by CIS countries – 28indicators Partial supportby CIS countries – 140indicators 10

  11. CIS countries’ view (6/7) 5. Is wording refinement needed for the indicator? Full support by CIS countries – 28indicators Partial supportby CIS countries – 89indicators 11

  12. CIS countries’ view (7/7) The applicability of the global list of SDGs indicators ( 231 indicators) - general view of CIS region 12

  13. Conclusions (1/2) Full list of indicators (231 indicators) has no support of CIS countrieson any criteria– even in the mild form uniting “Full support” and “Partial support”. This does not mean that the global list should be reduced, but this is a significant qualitative argument in favor of following requirements: 1)in the course of the future monitoring of SDG achievement, the CIS countries should not be assessed formally on the basis of full list of indicators. The selective approach is needed. 2) The CIS region consolidated assessment may be one of the landmarkswithin the further refinementof the global list of SDGs indicators at the international level. 13

  14. Conclusions (2/2) The results of the presented survey on the CIS countries’ view on the global list of SDGs indicators were discussed by The Council of Heads of Statistical Services of the CIS (55th meeting, September 8, 2016, Ashgabat). Survey was endorsed by the Council. CIS-Stat was entrusted to continue the work together with NSOs. On September 13, 2016, the CIS-Stat informed the UN Statistics Division on the current assessment of the global list in the CIS region. 14

  15. Thank you 15

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