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Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals: Insights from CES Seminar 2015

This article provides key messages and main conclusions from the CES Seminar 2015 on monitoring Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It emphasizes the importance of dialogue between statisticians and stakeholders, a sound conceptual framework, and capacity building for all countries. The role of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) in collecting data, providing methodological support, and leading communication efforts is highlighted.

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Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals: Insights from CES Seminar 2015

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  1. CES Seminar 2015: The Response byofficialstatisticstotheSustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, General Director of FSO CES 2015, Geneva, 15th June 2015

  2. Main messages from the CES 2013 Seminar on “Measuring sustainable development in follow up to Rio+20” • Building up SDGs that should be measured requires a dialogue between statisticians and stakeholders and a sound conceptual framework.

  3. Timetable of the Seminar

  4. CES Seminar 2015 • Session 1: Monitoring SDGs at national level(Organised by France) • Session 2: Cooperation in monitoring SDGs at regional and global level • (Organised by Sweden)

  5. Keynote • Keynote speech by Mr. Carlo Sommaruga, parliament member of the Swiss National Council and president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council.

  6. Main messages of the Seminar • Role of NSOs: more than collecting data and checking their quality • Conceptual framework: more than a list of indicators • Headline indicators: the Swiss Army Knife Syndrome • Capacity building: for all countries

  7. 1. Role of NSOs: more than collecting data and checking their quality • Coordinator of the national statistical system involving public sector – private sector – academia – civil society

  8. 1. Role of NSOs: more than collecting data and checking their quality • Provide methodological support • Advise in the interpretation of data and trends Source: Getting messages accrossusingindicators. Eurostat, 2014

  9. 1. Role of NSOs: more than collecting data and checking their quality • Leadership in the communication of data and indicators Source: www.cbs.nl (updated on 3th of June 2015)

  10. From the data to the indicator system 2. Conceptual framework: more than a list of indicators The “real” world Indicator system Statistical data Sources: Van Gogh: www.kunstbilder-galerie.de; Klee: Wehrli, Ursus 2002: Kunst aufräumen. Verlag Kein & Aber, Königstein im Taurus

  11. 2. Conceptual framework: more than a list of indicators • Sound basement • Systemic structure • Bridge between stakeholders and NSOs

  12. 3. Headline indicators: the Swiss Army Knife Syndrome • Essential for policy makers • Communication • A framework helps to define headline indicators

  13. 4. Capacity building: for all countries • Disaggregation • Modelling • Role of NSOs • “Big data”

  14. 4. Capacity building: for all countries • Between countries • In the countries • Between NSOs and Stakeholders and Users

  15. Outcomes and main conclusions • Adopt the Declaration • Role of NSOs (Message #1) • Create a Taskforce on “Adapting the CES-Framework to the SDGs” • Framework and Headline Indicators (Messages #2 and 3) • Regional road map to contribute to a new global action plan for statistics Capacity building (Messages #4)

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