PARIS21 Cross Regional Forum

SDG implementation: What is needed in terms of data, institutions and funding?

DECEMBER 4-5, 2017 OECD Boulogne Conference Centre, Room BB 2

Boulogne-Billancourt, France

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Concept Note

Context The implementation of the UN’s very ambitious 2030 Agenda, with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), requires concerted efforts from all countries. In order to achieve these goals, countries need to first evaluate how they currently perform on those goals. This should be followed by the development of a country specific strategy for the implementation of the SDGs, including establishing the priorities on how to move forward. This strategy cannot be carried out without a proper institutional set-up ensuring the necessary co-ordination between various organisations responsible for the implementation of the strategy, as well as monitoring and evaluating progress. Monitoring the implementation of the SDGs requires significantly more resources to be devoted to data collection and the provision of statistics. The Cross Regional Forum aims to provide a cross-cutting perspective on the implementation of the SDGs from two vantage points: by bringing together both developed (OECD) and developing countries from various regions of the world to share their experiences: the cross-regional aspect; as well as emphasising the linkages among the key challenges countries face in terms of data needs, institutional set-ups and funding, with an emphasis on securing domestic resources. The complex and overarching nature of the 2030 Agenda presents significant challenges for evaluating countries’ progress. The OECD’s Statistics Directorate has developed a methodology that measures the distance to the SDG targets using a single metric to assess the performance of countries, allowing for comparison of achievements across goals and targets. This study has been applied to OECD member countries participating in the study and is based on available data1. The study shows how far countries need to travel, or how much effort must be made, in order to achieve the SDG targets by 2030. Other international organisations, such as UN SDSN have also carried out this type of mapping work for developing countries. Some countries - both developed and developing - have also made efforts to evaluate their current performance on these targets. Due to the vast array of SDGs, from eradicating poverty to reducing environmental degradation and more, their implementation and subsequent monitoring and evaluation require concentrated and co-ordinated efforts from governments. Different governmental departments are responsible for the different goals and in many cases several departments have to work together to achieve one goal. The OECD’s Public Governance Directorate is currently undertaking a review of the institutional mechanisms in a number of OECD member countries for the implementation of the SDGs2. This work will outline the different institutional models that have been chosen by countries and the ways in which they have addressed the governance challenges of implementing the SDGs. Both the study on distance to targets and the review of institutional mechanisms can be applied to developing countries as well and there is much to be learned from country experiences from different regions. The institutional set-up for the implementation of SDGs might also have an impact on the amount of domestic resources which can be secured for data needs related to the SDGs for statistical development. Funding shortages are experienced both in developed and developing countries,

1 OECD, 2017, “Measuring Distance to the SDG Targets: an assessment of where OECD countries stand” http://www.oecd.org/std/measuring-distance-to-the-sdgs-targets.htm 2 OECD, 2017, “Getting Governments Organised to Deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals” https://www.oecd.org/gov/SDGs-Summary-Report-WEB.pdf

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although with widely different degrees. According to the report “The State of Development Data Funding 2016” the 77 International Development Association (IDA) eligible countries will need to spend 1.1 to 1.2 USD billion a year to upgrade their statistical systems and carry out regular data collection for the SDGs. As the level of international support to statistical development in developing countries is relatively low – amounting to 0.30% of Official Development Assistance (ODA) in 2015 3 – there is an urgent need for domestic resource mobilisation. Regions and countries can learn from each other about different strategies for obtaining domestic funding for statistical development. It is also important to bring together representatives of the statistical community from participating countries in the developing world – requiring the additional funding – and from institutions that decide on the allocation of domestic resources, e.g. Ministries of Finance.

Objectives The Forum is intended to bring together countries from different regions in order to share experiences and identify best practices in establishing baseline positions on the SDGs, institutional arrangements and domestic resources mobilisation to successfully monitor and implement the SDGs. As the SDGs are universal, the Forum will provide the opportunity, for the first time, for developed and developing countries to work together through peer learning. The specific objectives of the Forum are to:

Provide guidance to countries on measuring the distance to SDG targets by showcasing various methodologies

Share good practices of both OECD and developing countries on what kind of institutional set-up would be the most appropriate for SDG implementation and what could be the role of NSOs in the process, taking into account the key contextual factors in countries

Present good practices on funding of statistical development from domestic resources

Expected outputs The expected outputs of the Forum include:

Enable countries to assess their own statistical needs in order to evaluate performance on the SDG targets

Assist statistical agencies in deciding how they should contribute to the design and implementation of the institutional framework to support the implementation of the SDGs

Document good practices in funding arrangements using domestic resources for better data and statistics

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Agenda

Day 1 – Monday, 4 December 2017

Time Duration Title Presenter

8:30 30 Registration and coffee

9:00 30 Welcome and Forum objectives

Mr. Johannes Jütting, Manager,

PARIS21

Mr. Edwin LAU, Head of Division,

OECD

9:30 20 Setting the scene: Key challenges in SDG

implementation and monitoring

Mr. Jérémie Petit, Department Head,

Ministry for Europe and Foreign

Affairs, France

9:50 15 SDG readiness: Advanced Data Planning

Tool (ADAPT)

Mr. François Fonteneau, Co-ordinator,

Data Advisory Services, PARIS21

10:05 30 Discussion All Participants

10:35 25 Tea/coffee break

Session 1: What are the data needs for measuring and monitoring the SDGs?

Chair: Ms. Philomena Harrison (CARICOM)

11:00 15

Distance of OECD countries to SDG targets

The approach and results of the OECD study

will be presented on where countries stand

vis-à-vis the SDG targets.

Ms. Michal Shinwell, Policy Analyst,

OECD

11:15 15 Discussion All Participants

11:30 60

Country experience: How countries

establish where they currently are vis-a-vis

the SDG targets and how they prioritise

their statistical work related to the SDGs.

Selected countries will present both on the

process and the tools (ADAPT, OECD distance

to target, etc.) used to identify where they

Mr. Candido Astrologo, Assistant

National Statistician, Philippine

Statistics Authority

Ms. Ruth Minja, Manager, National

Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania

Ms. Aneta Haimannová, Policy

Coordinator, Sustainable

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are positioned currently on the SDG targets;

the resources and time needed to complete

this exercise (NSO, Ministry of Planning,

etc.); and the process of prioritising targets

and decisions on data needed for their

monitoring and implementation

Development Unit, Czech Republic

N.N., Permanent Delegation of the

Netherlands to the OECD

12:30 30 Discussion All Participants

13:00 90 Group photo + Lunch break

Session 2: SDG implementation: What is the institutional set-up and what role

does the NSO play?

Chair: Ms. Zsuzsanna Lonti (PARIS21)

Time Duration Title Presenter

14:30 15 Institutional mechanisms for SDG

implementation Ms. Sara Fyson, Counsellor, OECD

14:45 15 Discussion All Participants

15:00 60

Country experiences in institutional

mechanisms for the SDGs

This session aims to share country

experiences on how to co-ordinate SDG

implementation and monitoring amongst

different institutions (Centre of

Governments, Ministries, NSOs, Civil Society,

UN agencies etc.).

Mr. Mayacine Camara, Coordinator,

Ministry of Economy, Finance and

Planning, Senegal

Mr. Azahari Mohd Raslan, Deputy

Chief Statistician, Department of

Statistics, Malaysia

Mr. Jussi Kanner, Advocacy

Coordinator, Kehys (Finnish NGDO

platform to the EU)

Ms. Andreja Slomšek, Economic

Cooperation Adviser to the Prime

Minister, Slovenia

16:00 15 Tea/coffee break

16:15 30 Discussion All Participants

16:45 30 Wrap-up for the day Mr. Rudolphe Petras, Regional

Programme Co-ordinator, PARIS21

17:15 Cocktail

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Day 2 – Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Session 3: How to raise domestic funding for measuring the SDGs?

Chair: Ms. Ceri Thompson (Eurostat)

Time Duration Title Presenter

8:30 30 Coffee

9:00 15 Introduction Mr. Johannes Jütting, Manager,

PARIS21

9:15 15

Results of ODI-PARIS21 Good Practices

Paper on the Financing of Statistical

Development.

The paper showcases good practices of

success for the financing of statistical

development from 3 countries – Ethiopia,

the Philippines and Rwanda, and provides

practical guidance to countries that are

interested in replicating and adapting these

good practices.

Ms. Moizza B Sarwar, Senior Research

Officer, Overseas Development

Institute

9:30 45

Funding the national statistical system from

domestic resources

This session aims to share country

experiences on funding statistical

development through domestic resources in

the context of the SDGs. It will present the

perspective from National Statistical Offices

as well as a Ministry of Finance/Planning.

Ms. Halimeh Said, Director General of

International Relations, Palestinian

Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) ‘

Mr. Harouna Kone, Director General,

INSTAT Mali

Mr. Calyst B. Ndyomugabi, Senior

Economist, Ministry of Finance,

Planning and Economic Development,

Uganda

10:15 30 Discussion All Participants

10:45 15 Tea/coffee break

11:00 60

Break-out sessions on funding statistical

development from domestic resources Chairs

1. Strategies, good practices and tools Additional funding will be needed to

produce the data required for the SDGs,

in a context where statistical funding is

already insufficient in many countries.

This group will discuss strategies, good

practices and tools for NSOs and other

Chair: Ms. Leesha Delatie-Budair,

Director, Research, Design and

Evaluation Division, Statistical

Institute of Jamaica

Room: BB 2

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data providers to raise additional

domestic resources in the SDGs context.

2. Capacity development Specific capacity will be needed to

facilitate better domestic resource

mobilisation for statistical development.

This group will discuss what type of

capacity development is required for

individuals, for institutions and for

national statistical systems to leverage

additional domestic funding for

statistics.

Chair: H.E. Mr. Pagnathun Theng,

Director General, Ministry of Planning,

Cambodia

Room: BB 3225

3. The view of the funders In order to support the use of country-

led results data to monitor the SDGs,

donor agencies will need to encourage

developing countries to raise additional

domestic financial resources for

statistical development.

This group will discuss what kind of

support donors should provide to NSOs

and other producers to help them raise

more domestic funding for statistics.

Chair: Mr. Joern Geisselmann, Policy

Advisor, GIZ

Room: BB 2261

12:00 45 Reporting back of break-out groups and discussion

12:45 75 Lunch

Session 4: What are the next steps to get the adequate data, institutions and

funding to monitor and implement the SDGs?

Chair: Mr. Johannes Jütting (PARIS21)

Time Duration Title Presenter

14:00 15 What are the next steps? Mr. Rudolphe Petras, Regional

Programme Co-ordinator, PARIS21

14:15 30 Closing messages

Mr. Mayacine Camara, Coordinator,

Ministry of Economy, Finance and

Planning, Senegal

Mr. Azahari Mohd Raslan, Deputy

Chief Statistician, Department of

Statistics, Malaysia

Mr. Johannes Jütting, Manager,

PARIS21

14:45 End of Forum

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Participant List

Belgium

Mr. Pieter Vermaerke, Counsellor, Permanent

Delegation of Belgium to the OECD/UNESCO

Mr. Houssemdine Zagheden, Intern, Permanent

Delegation of Belgium to the OECD/ UNESCO

Cambodia

H.E. Mr. Pagnathun Theng, Director General,

Ministry of Planning

H.E. Ms. Davin Orn, Deputy Director General,

Ministry of Planning

Colombia

Ms. Paola Montenegro, Advisor, National

Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE)

Czech Republic

Ms. Aneta Haimannová, Policy Coordinator,

Sustainable Development Unit, Office of the

Government of the Czech Republic

El Salvador

Ms. Evaristo Hernandez, Director General,

Dirección General de Estadística y Censos

Finland

Mr. Jussi Kanner, Advocacy Coordinator, Kehys

(Finnish NGDO platform to the EU)

France

Mr. Stéphane Cieniewski, Head of the Economic

Department, Permanent Delegation of France to

the OECD

Mr. Jérémie Petit, Head of Official Development

Assistance/Accountability Department, Ministry

for Europe and Foreign Affairs

Ms. Constance Torelli, Cooperation Programme

Manager, National Institute of Statistics and

Economic Studies (INSEE)

Germany

Mr. Joern Geisselmann, Policy Advisor, German

Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ)

Greece

Ms. Dimitra Xynou, Advisor, Permanent

Delegation of Greece to the OECD

Guatemala

Mr. Manuel José Solis, Subdirector of Monitoring

and Evaluation, Planning and Programming

Secretariat in the Office of the President

Hungary

Ms. Anita Obermayer, Development Counsellor,

Permanent Delegation of Hungary to the OECD

Ireland

Ms. Jennifer Wallace, Permanent Delegation of

Ireland to the OECD

Jamaica

Ms. Leesha Delatie-Budair, Director Research,

Design and Evaluation Division, Statistical Institute

of Jamaica

Japan

Ms. Yoko Nishiki, Representative, Japan

International Cooperation Agency (JICA) France

Office

Ms. Shizuka Onishi, Representative, Japan

International Cooperation Agency (JICA) France

Office

Kyrgyzstan

Mr. Daniyar Imanaliev, Deputy Minister, Ministry

of Economy

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Malaysia

Mr. Azahari Mohd Raslan, Deputy Chief

Statistician, Department of Statistics

Mali

Mr. Harouna Kone, Director General, National

Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)

Netherlands

Ms. Evelien Lambooij, Intern, Permanent

Delegation of the Netherlands to the OECD

Ms. Marit van Zomeren, Deputy Permanent

Representative, Permanent Delegation of the

Netherlands to the OECD

Norway

Ms. Hege Hope Wade, Assistant Director,

Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

(Norad)

Palestine

Ms. Halimeh Said, Director General of

International Relations, Palestinian Central Bureau

of Statistics (PCBS)

Philippines

Mr. Candido Astrologo, Assistant National

Statistician, Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)

Senegal

Mr. Mayacine Camara, Coordinator, Direction of

Planning and Economic Policy, Ministry of

Economy, Finance and Planning

Slovenia

Ms. Jana Urh Lesjak, Minister Counsellor,

Permament Delegation of Slovenia to the OECD

Ms. Andreja Slomšek, Economic Cooperation

Adviser to the Prime Minister

Tanzania

Ms. Ruth Minja, Manager for Environment

Statistics and Further Analysis, National Bureau of

Statistics

Tunisia

Mr. Béchir Maghrabi, Director and SDG focal

point, National Institute of Statistics

Uganda

Mr. Calyst B Ndyomugabi, Senior Economist,

Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic

Development

Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

Ms. Philomen Harrison, Director, Regional

Statistics

Caribbean Development Bank

Mr. Dindial Ramrattan, Director, Economics

Department

European Union

Mr. Filippos PIERROS, Minister- Counsellor, EU

Delegation to the OECD

Eurostat

Ms. Ceri Thompson, Head of Section, Cooperation

with Africa, Asia and Latin America

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

Ms. Moizza B Sarwar, Senior Research Officer

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and

Development (OECD)

Mr. Jens Dossé, Evidence Practice Team Manager,

Executive Directorate

Ms. Scarlette Elizée, Communication Officer,

Development Co-operation Directorate

Mr. Poul Engberg-Pedersen, Senior Policy Analyst,

Development Co-operation Directorate

Ms. Sara Fyson, Counsellor, Governance

Directorate

Mr. Edwin Lau, Head of Division, Governance

Directorate

Ms. Karine Lepron, Programmer/Analyst,

Executive Directorate

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Ms. Michal Shinwell, Policy Analyst, Statistics

Directorate

United Nations Sustainable Development

Solutions Network (UN SDSN)

Mr. Guillaume Lafortune, Policy Manager

PARIS21

Mr. Johannes Jütting, Manager

Ms. Zsuzsanna Lonti, Deputy Manager

Mr. François Fonteneau, Co-ordinator, Data

Advisory Services

Mr. Rudolphe Petras, Regional Programme Co-

ordinator

Mr. Koffi Zougbede, Junior Analyst

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Logistics

Address

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Getting here

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Metro/RER

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(10 minutes by foot)

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Buses

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Tramway

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minutes by foot)

Plan your itinerary via public transportation:

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Security

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upon departure. A box is provided for this purpose at each exit.

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