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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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CES Seminar 2015: The Response byofficialstatisticstotheSustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, General Director of FSO CES 2015, Geneva, 15th June 2015
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.
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)
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.
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
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
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
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)
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
2. Conceptual framework: more than a list of indicators • Sound basement • Systemic structure • Bridge between stakeholders and NSOs
3. Headline indicators: the Swiss Army Knife Syndrome • Essential for policy makers • Communication • A framework helps to define headline indicators
4. Capacity building: for all countries • Disaggregation • Modelling • Role of NSOs • “Big data”
4. Capacity building: for all countries • Between countries • In the countries • Between NSOs and Stakeholders and Users
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)