Sixth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs, 11-14 November, Bahrain
Friday, October 27, 2017 at 8:31PM The sixth meeting of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs will be held in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain, 11-14 November 2017, with the Plenary Session which is open to observers on 13-14 November.
During the first part of the Agenda, participants will be updated on the new membership of the IAEG-SDGs*; the outcomes of the ECOSOC, HLPF and General Assembly on indicators and follow-up and review; and on the work if the three working groups of the IAEGs-SDGs, namely SDMX, Geospatial information and the Joint-sub group of the IAEG and the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (HLG).
Items for discussion include: review of tier-classification of indicators; review of progress made on methodological development of Tier III indicators; review of any proposed annual refinements of indicators; guidelines on data flows and global data reporting; data collection calendar; Data Disaggregation; and work plan and next steps.
It should be remembered that the original proposal was for Data Disaggregation to be considered in a working group, but the decision was taken for it to be taken up by the IAEG-SDGs itself as all countries wished to be involved.
* As of May 2017 the members of the IAEG-SDGs are:
Chair of Statistical Division (ex officio): Brazil
Eastern Africa: Ethiopia, Tanzania
Middle and Southern Africa: Botswana, Cameroon
Western Africa: Ghana, Niger
Northern Africa: Algeria, Egypt
Western Asia: Bahrain
Central, Eastern, Southern and South-Eastern Asia: China, India, Tajikistan, The Philippines
Oceania: Fiji, Samoa
The Caribbean: Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago
Central and South America: Brazil, Colombia, Mexico
Eastern Europe: Belarus, Russian Federation
North America and Northern, Southern and Western Europe: Canada, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden