Inter-agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals

Indicators

Enrique OrdazNovember 2015

Contents

• Decisions of the UN Statistical Commission• Mandate of the IAEG-SDG • Outcome of the IAEG-SDG 1st meeting• Outcome of the IAEG SDG 2nd meeting• Geo-spatial information and the SDGs

Decisions of the UN Statistical Commission

• The High Level Group has been tasked to provide strategic leadership for the sustainable development goal implementation process as it concerns statistical monitoring and reporting.

• 23 National Statistical Offices.• First meeting on October 7th.

Decisions of the UN Statistical Commission

• Creation of an Inter-agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals Indicators– A process under leadership of Member States;– Stress the executive role of the NSO; – 28 representatives of the NSO;– Regional and international agencies participate as

observers, providing technical advice and support.

Member StatesChair of UN Statistical Commission:*•United KingdomEastern Africa:•Tanzania•UgandaMiddle and Southern Africa:•Botswana•CameroonWestern Africa:•Cabo Verde•SenegalNorthern Africa:•Algeria

Western Asia:•Armenia•Bahrain•EgyptCentral, Eastern, Southern, and South-Eastern Asia:•China•India•Kyrgyzstan•The PhilippinesOceania:•Fiji•Samoa

Member StatesThe Caribbean:•Cuba•Jamaica

Central and South America:•Brazil•Colombia•Mexico

Eastern Europe:•Russian Federation

North America and Western Europe:•Canada•France•Germany•The Netherlands•Sweden

Mandate of the IAEG-SDG• Develop an indicator framework and a list of indicators • Provide technical support for the implementation• Ensure the use of harmonized and agreed indicator definitions• Regularly review methodological developments• Report on progress towards the goals and targets• Work in an open, inclusive and transparent manner• Review and support work by the Secretariat for the

sustainable development goals data-user forum.

Mandate of the IAEG-SDG• Present an open dashboard on the state of the SDG.• Invite experts from the organized civil society, the academia

and the private sector.• Regularly review capacity-building activities in statistical areas

relevant to sustainable development goals monitoring and make recommendations to be considered by the Statistical Commission, the High-level Group for post-2015 monitoring and the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities.

Initial work on the indicators

• Initial list of 304 indicators• Three tiers:

– Tier I, methodology exists and data is widely available– Tier II, methodology exists but data is not easily

available– Tier III, concepts, definition and methodology needs

to be developed

First meeting of the IAEG-SDG

• Indicators must directly respond to the goals and targets agreed in the Open Working Group

• Must not undermine or reinterpret the targets• Must cover all targets, including targets on

means of implementation and give equal weight to all targets

First meeting of the IAEG-SDG• The number of global indicators should be limited and should

include multi-purpose indicators• Agreed to establish two discussion streams:

– Conceptual frameworks and indicator concepts and definitions– Identifying interlinkages among indicators across goals and targets

• A website was established to contribute to the transparency of the activities:

• http://unstats.un.org/sdgs

Preparing the second meeting of the IAEG-SDG

August 11 – September 7

Open consultation

September 21 Updating of a list of possible indicators, 204.October 15 Comments and questionnaire on the updated

listOctober 26 - 28 IAEG-SDG second meeting

Second meeting of the IAEG-SDG• Following a consultation among IAEG-SDG members all proposals were

assigned a colour code as follows: • GREEN: Indicators for which there is general agreement, based on the fact

that less than 25% of respondents have strong concerns/expressed need to discuss on priority basis; no strong opposing views by members; furthermore, some of these indicators are already well established;

• YELLOW: Indicators where there are some unresolved issues or different alternative proposals, which could be resolved during the meeting;

• GREY: Indicators where it appears that more in-depth discussion is still needed and/or methodological development needs to be undertaken.

Yellow to green• At the conclusion of the meeting, 159 indicators had been

classified as “Green.” • Those indicators that are classified as “Green” are tentatively

agreed upon by the IAEG-SDG members, subject to the modifications and comments that are included in the spreadsheet within Column E.

• The IAEG-SDGs is currently working on developing a work plan to discuss and agree upon those indicators that are currently classified as “Grey.”

Column B Column C Column D Column E Column F

  

Target  

Original Indicator ProposalInitial

classification before

the meeting

 

Proposed modification/alternative indicator or additional indicator

New classificati

on

Goal 2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture    

2.1.1Target 2.1 By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round.

Prevalence of undernourishment    

YELLOW  

   

GREEN

  

2.1.2

Prevalence of population with moderate or severe food insecurity, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)

  

GREEN

     2.2.1

Target 2.2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons.

Prevalence of stunting (height for age <-2 SD from the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards) among children under five years of age

     

GREEN

 

2.2.2 Additional Prevalence of wasting  

GREEN       2.3.1

Target 2.3 By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment.

Value of production per labour unit (measured in constant USD), by classes of farming/pastoral/ forestry enterprise size

       

YELLOW

Volume of production per labour unit (measured in constant USD), by classes of farming/pastoral/ forestry enterprise size

       

GREEN

2.3.2 Additional Total Factor Productivity GREY

Disaggregation

• SDG 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.

Geo-spatial information• Geospatial information and analyses can significantly enhance the

effectiveness of the SDG indicators in monitoring and guiding sustainable development from global to local scales.

• The value of statistical and geospatial data compilation for the implementation and monitoring of the 2030 Agenda constitutes an important basis for the continued collaboration between our two communities.

• This requires of us, not only to promote the use of statistical and geospatial data as reporting and monitoring tools for achieving the SDGs, but also to support capacity building in the intersection of our distinct disciplines and development of the requisite infrastructure.

Proposal for Workplan• 29 Oct. – 20 Nov. 2015

Consultation for IAEG-SDG Members on green indicators • 1 Dec. – 15 Feb. 2016

Work on grey indicators based on workplan agreed by IAEG-SDG Members for inclusion in background documents for Statistical Commission• 29 Oct. – 20 Nov. 2015

Work stream on disaggregation: Preparation chapeau and identification of targets where particular population groups are mentioned – proposals for disaggregation of current indicators.• 30 Nov. – 7 Dec. 2015

Draft Report circulated to IAEG Members

Proposal for Workplan• 7 Dec. – 16 Dec. 2015

Report to the Statistical Commission is finalised for submission• 8 December 2015

Update indicators related to climate change based on outcome of COP 21 in Paris• Mid-January 2016

Meeting of the High Level Group where the IAEG-SDG co- chairs will participate• March 2016

3rd meeting of the IAEG-SDG

Remarks

• Open, transparent and inclusive process• Process under leadership of the States• Use of existing conceptual frameworks• Incorporate the geo-spatial infrastructure• Indicators with strong methodological bases• Relevant, easy to calculate and communicate

Thank you