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Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
EVALNET 26 April 2016 Simon Scott Counsellor, Statistics Directorate
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What are the SDGs?
• 25 September 2015: UN adopts the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, featuring 17 Sustainable Development Goals, with 169 targets for:
– Development
– Environment
– Rights and governance
– Policies and finance (“means of implementation”)
• SDGs apply to all countries, but with differing responsibilities
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The 17 SDGs
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SDG follow-up and review framework
• Global, regional, national and thematic levels
• Only global monitoring spelt out in detail in UN Resolution
• Global follow-up and review based on indicators
• Indicator selection controlled by group of 28 UN members
• Will be annual reports by UN S-G and a glossy booklet
• High Level Political Forum (HLPF) will guide process
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OECD and the SDGs
28 April 2015: SG Gurría receives SG Ban at the OECD and says: “The SDGs promise to change the way we look at the world. OECD countries should – along with others – adopt them and adapt them…. OECD expertise…from statistics to governance…seems particularly useful …our respective teams are already working together. Measuring progress is, after all, part of the OECD's raison d'être.”
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How can OECD help achieve the SDG agenda?
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• Proposed OECD Action Plan on the SDGs suggests: – Contribute to all levels of monitoring – Support countries’ SDG implementation – Strengthen follow-up and review through analytical
tools, data and peer-review frameworks – Adapt OECD work to meet the SDG agenda
• Example: Proposals for an SDG-based results framework for development co-operation
SDG monitoring: initial efforts
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OECD advantages in SDG monitoring
• Strong data culture, with conceptual frameworks for data
• Broad coverage of sectors, standardised across countries
• Measures welfare “beyond GDP”, including “How’s Life”
• Unique data – ODA, PISA, PSE, Trade in Value Added
• Quality-controlled data, agreed by members and partners
…and one important limitation:
• We (usually) lack global coverage
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Challenges in SDG monitoring
• Complex targets • Omitted benchmarks • Lack of data • Multiple foci – global, country, individual • Unclear who is responsible for achievement • Overlapping, interrelated or potentially contradictory
goals or targets
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Inter-related SDG targets
Chart credit: David Le Blanc, UNDSD
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OECD contributions to SDG measurement
• Contribute as observers to IAEG-SDG global indicator work
• Provide indicator data on OECD and other countries
• Contribute to annual UN reports on SDG progress
• Contribute to regional reports, especially under UNECE
• Assess OECD countries’ starting positions
• Adapt tools, platforms, guidelines, to SDGs, including for developing countries
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Current position on SDG global indicators
• Three meetings so far of IAEG-SDG
• 230 indicators agreed by UN Statistical Commission for global monitoring
• Data will come mainly from UN agencies, World Bank, IMF etc., as well as from OECD
• Some OECD data will be provided through UN sector agencies (e.g. on Education)
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Key dates
• 1-2 June: OECD Ministerial Council Meeting to consider OECD Action Plan on SDGs
• UNSG Report, and glossy booklet, by summer
• 11-15 July: ECOSOC High-Level Political Forum on sustainable development, then results session, 18-22 July: ECOSOC to approve global indicator list
• From 20 September – UN General Assembly to finally approve global indicator framework
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Thank you.
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