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Statistics for Sustainable Development Goals: Gender Aspects and the UNECE Road Map

This comprehensive report covers the integration of economic, social, and environmental dimensions in sustainable development through Gender SDG Indicators and UNECE's Road Map. It highlights the importance of disaggregated data for monitoring progress towards the SDGs, especially in areas like gender equality, cities, education, health, poverty, and hunger. The document emphasizes data coordination challenges and the role of custodian agencies in ensuring data availability. Through practical tools like National Reporting Platforms and testing data flows, countries can improve statistical capacity for SDG monitoring. This guide provides actionable steps for countries to establish efficient SDG systems and report on global and national indicators.

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Statistics for Sustainable Development Goals: Gender Aspects and the UNECE Road Map

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  1. Statistics forSustainable Development Goals:Gender Aspects and the UNECE Road Map Andres Vikat Meeting of CIS countries on youth statistics Moscow, 5-6 December 2018

  2. 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Adopted by all countries 2015 economic Takes a holistic approach to addressing the challenges of sustainable development by integrating at its core the economic, social and environmental dimensions social environmental New, universal set of goals, targets and indicators that are ambitious, integrated, indivisible, global in nature

  3. Global SDG indicator list • Tier system to assess availability of the indicators • Tier 1 – internationally agreed methods exist, data widely available • Tier 2 – agreed methods exist but data are not widely available • Tier 3 – no agreed methods, no data • Custodian agencies for each indicator: ~ 50 agencies

  4. Data and Policy Challenge: No one left behind • “Sustainable Development Goal indicators should be disaggregated, where relevant, by income, sex, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability and geographic location, or other characteristics, in accordance with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics.” • New gender data requirements are to be fulfilled by the National Statistics Offices (NSOs). • Out of 80 gender-relevant SDG indicators: • 43 (54%) have data currently available for global monitoring • 22 (28%) have data disaggregated by sex

  5. Gender in SDGs Gender equality is a cross-cutting theme that is mainstreamed into the 2030 Agenda through 80 gender-relevant indicators in 14 out of the 17 SDGs. 34% gender-relevant indicators 21% explicitly disaggregated by sex Gender Cities Education Health Work Poverty Hunger Institutions

  6. SDG data coordination is a challenge • Monitoring progress toward SDGs requires statistics • on 232 indicators • based on data provided by 193 countries • often involving 30 or more agencies within a country • compiled by 50 international organizations • UNECE Statistical Division supports countries in • setting up an efficient system for SDG statistics • producing the SDG indicators

  7. Custodian Agencies of SDG indicators *Agency icon size is proportional to number of indicators assigned

  8. SDG Data Flow Model (Simplified)

  9. Reporting on SDGs – UNECE region High-level Political Forum UNECE Regional Forum on Sustainable Development • Guidance to countries • No monitoring UNECE Statistical Division UNECE region OECD European Union Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Statistics Directorate + other statistics Eurostat + other EU sources CIS-Stat • “Measuring distance to SDG targets” • Update June 2017 • 100 SDG indicators • based on existing data • 51 in global SDG list • 111 SDG indicators • based on survey on relevance among CES countries • all in global SDG list UNECE region: 56 countries, incl. Canada, US, Europe, Israel, Turkey, Caucasus, Central Asia • National statistics • National indicators • (Sub)regional indicators • Global indicators

  10. UNECE Road Map on Statistics for SDGs • Provides guidance to countries how to set up an efficient system of SDG statistics • endorsed in 2017 by over 65 NSOs • Practical tools have been produced • national reporting platforms (34 countries) • testing data transmission (38 countries) • assessment of available data (36 countries) • national road map or work plan (25 countries) • Statistical capacity development is supported by • annual regional expert meetings • workshops and advisory missions

  11. Content of the Road Map • Establishing national mechanisms for collaboration –NSOs to have a key coordinating role • Assessing countries’ readiness to provide data on global SDG indicators, identifying data sources • Selecting national indicators to monitor national SDG strategies and policies • Providing data on global SDG indicators – data flows • Communication and dissemination • Capacity-building

  12. Example 1: Guidance on National Reporting Platforms (NRPs) • UNECE developed guidance on National Reporting Platforms (January 2018) • NRPs can be used to • collect data on SDGs from many national agencies • provide national statistics to users, including to international organizations • 34 UNECE countries currently have or are setting up NRPs based on UNECE guidance NRP is a means to report national statistics for the global and/or national SDG indicators. A "platform" refers to an integrated website, databases, and associated IT infrastructure to gather, host, secure, and make available information and related metadata and documentation

  13. Example 2: Testing data flows for SDGs • Issue: countries experience serious problems with providing data to international organizations for the global SDG database • statistics produced by countries and international organizations are different • data flows from within a country are not coordinated • UNECE tested data flows • “What information is needed to be able to complete your assigned task regarding the SDG global indicator reporting?” • help countries navigate data flows • report national statistics efficiently and transparently • 38 countries from UNECE region and beyond participated • Result: practical recommendations to improve the process, these have been taken into account in global guidance

  14. Issues related to data availability • Proxies • Statistics that are similar to, but not exactly the same, as the global indicator • Not clearly defined what is a proxy, countries are using various approaches • E.g. an indicator can be considered a proxy because of differences in • units • definition • coverage • Availability • Already produced and disseminated - available • Not yet produced but can be easily calculated based on existing data - available • Can be calculated but needs adjustment to existing collection instruments (e.g., adding questions to existing surveys) – short-term • Needs introducing new data collection instruments – mid-term • Needs building capacity and resources in a new area – long-term

  15. More information STATISTICS • SDG indicators website (including work of IAEG-SDGs) http://unstats.un.org/sdgs/ • Road Map on statistics for SDGs (available in Russian) http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=47510 • UNECE wiki on statistics for SDGs https://statswiki.unece.org/display/SFSDG • UNECE Expert Meetings on statistics for SDGs http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=45249(10-12 April 2017) http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=47533 (18-19 April 2018)

  16. Thank you! andres.vikat@un.org UNECE STATISTICS

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