United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

Source: DESA / UN Statistics Division SDG indicators database

FOOD SECURITY – SDG INDICATORS

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History

SEP 2014 Request to the UN Statistical Commission

MAR 2015 UN Stat. Comm. established

• Inter Agency Expert Group on SDG Indicators• High Level Group on Partnership and Capacity

Development

MAY ‘15-FEB 16 IAEG established the list of indicators

MAR ‘16 Initial SDG Indicators Framework adopted by UN SC

MAR ‘16-FEB 17 IAEG worked on definitions, concepts, sources

HLG formulated the Global Action Plan

MAR ‘17 UN Stat. Com. Adopted

• SDG Indicators Framework (-> ECOSOC / GA)• Cape Town Global Action Plan for SDG Data

2017 Expected adoption by the General Assembly

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Progress

Original ambition:A compact set of a small number of multi-purpose indicators, where

most of the indicators would be able to monitor several of the SDG

targets. (max. 100 indicators)

Result:A set of 241 indicators to be further broken down by age, sex,

ethnicity, origin, disability, etc.

Three Tiers:Tier I: Indicators with clear definitions, concepts and available data

Tier II: Indicators with clear definitions, concepts, but lack of data

Tier III: Indicators lacking definitions, concepts and sources

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Principles of data reporting

Indicators should be standards based

Indicators should be nationally sourced

There should be a communication with member countries

prior to data release

Reducing reporting burden – sharing data among UN agencies

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Goal 2 - indicators

2.1.1 Prevalence of undernourishment

2.1.2 Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity (FIES)

2.2.1 Prevalence of stunting <5 years of age

2.2.2 Prevalence of malnutrition <5 years of age

2.3.1 Volume of production per labour unit

2.3.2 Average income of small-scale food producers

2.4.1 Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable

agriculture

2.5.1 Number of plant and animal genetic resources for food and

agriculture secured in either medium or long-term conservation

facilities

2.5.2 Proportion of local breeds at risk/not at risk/unknown level of

extinction

Tier I

Tier I

Tier I

Tier I

Tier III

Tier III

Tier III

Tier III

Tier II

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Indicators of means of implementation

2.a.1 The agriculture orientation index for government expenditures

2.a.2 Total official flows (official development assistance plus other official

flows) to the agriculture sector

2.b.1 Producer Support Estimate

2.b.2 Agricultural export subsidies

2.c.1 Indicator of food price anomalies

Tier I

Tier III

Tier I

Tier I

Tier II

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Question No. 1

How to establish baselines?

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Data availability – Arab states

Number of data points during 1990-2016

3 and more data points

2 data points

1 data point

No data

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2.1.1 – Prevalence of undernourishment

All data

Algeria Lebanon SomaliaBahrain Libya SudanComoros Mauritania SyriaDjibouti Morocco TunisiaEgypt Oman UAEIraq PalestineJordan QatarKuwait Saudi Arabia

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2.1.1 – Prevalence of undernourishment

Country data

Algeria Lebanon SomaliaBahrain Libya SudanComoros Mauritania SyriaDjibouti Morocco TunisiaEgypt Oman UAEIraq PalestineJordan QatarKuwait Saudi Arabia

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2.2.1 – Proportion of stuned children (<5)

All data

Algeria Jordan SomaliaComoros Kuwait SudanDjibuti Mauritania SyriaEgypt Morocco TunisiaIrar OmanIraq Palestine

BahrainLebanonLibyaSaudi Arabia

Qatar UAE

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2.2.1 – Proportion of stuned children (<5)

Country data

Algeria Kuwait SomaliaComoros Mauritania SudanEgypt Morocco SyriaIraq Oman TunisiaJordan Palestine

BahrainLebanonLibyaSaudi Arabia

Qatar DjibutiUAE

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2.2.2 – Prevalence of children malnutrition (<5)

All data

Algeria Jordan PalestineDjibuti Kuwait SomaliaComoros Mauritania SudanEgypt Morocco SyriaIraq Oman Tunisia

LebanonLibyaSaudi Arabia

BahrainQatar

UAE

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2.2.2 – Prevalence of children malnutrition (<5)

Country data

Algeria Jordan PalestineDjibuti Kuwait SuriaComoros Mauritania TunisiaEgypt MoroccoIraq Oman

LebanonLibyaSaudi ArabiaSomaliaSudan

BahrainQatar

UAE

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2.5.2 – Local breeds / extinction

Algeria Lebanon SudanBahrain Libya SyriaComoros Mauritania TunisiaDjibouti MoroccoEgypt OmanIraq Saudi ArabiaJordan Somalia

KuwaitPalestineQatarUAE

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2.a.1 – Agriculture orientation index for

government expenditures

Algeria MoroccoBahrain OmanEgypt SyriaKuwait TunisiaLebanon

JordanQatarUAE

Comoros Palestine YemenDjibuti Saudi ArabiaIraq SomaliaLibya SudanMauritania

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2.a.2 – Total official flows to the agriculture

sector (ODA)

Algeria Lebanon Saudi ArabiaComoros Libya SomaliaDjibuti Mauritania SudanEgypt Morocco SuriaIraq Oman TunisiaJordan Palestine

Bahrain

KuwaitQatarUAE

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Next step(s)

Validate data

Data loaded into the UN SDG indicators database were uploaded

from other sources, and do not fully correspond to the Global SDG

Indicators Framework

Perform data availability assessment at the country level

This preliminary assessment of availability of the nationally sourced

data was based on a single international source (UN database), but

there may be more data available in each country.

Address the applicability of global indicators to the Arab context

Address the issues of statistical capacity development

…based onthe data availability assessment, and, if applicable,

regional / national indicators – filling the gaps, applying standards,

resolving variations between sources,…