As referred to previously, the fourth meeting of the Interagency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals (IAEG-SDGs) will be held at the ECA Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 18-21 October 2016. CSO representatives wishing to attend or to become a member of the Selection Committee, (See: 4th Meeting of IAEG-SDGs, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 20-21 October 2016, applications to attend)
It should be noted that 18-19 October will be a Members meeting. And 20-21 October will be a plenary session. Country representatives and other stakeholders that are not IAEG-SDG Members should only plan to attend the plenary session...
The meeting will consider updates on:
- Outcomes of ECOSOC and HLPF on SDG indicators and follow-up and review
- Work of the High-Level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-building for statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
- Work on the three working groups on IAEG-SDGs, SDMX, and Geo-spatial information and interlinkages.
They will also discuss:
- Presentation of the finalized tier system
- Review of plans for Tier III indicators
- Refinement of indicators and revisions of the indicator framework
- Data flows from NSS to the international statistical systems
- Review of proposals of development of indicators that currently do not have an agency involved in their development
- Work plans on data disaggregation and discussion of strategies and best practices for increasing the levels of disaggregation for SDG indicators
- Household surveys as a source of data for the SDGs (To be organized possibly as a special session or side-event)
- Presentation of IAEG-SDGs work plan and next steps
(for agenda see: http://unstats.un.org/sdgs/meetings/iaeg-sdgs-meeting-04)
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