Sixth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs, 11-14 November, Update 7

Marianne Haslegrave made a presentation on behalf of the Women’s Major Group during which she stressed that the WMG “must be the voice that is heard on issues related to gender equality and women’s empowerment in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”

While disaggregation of data is a small, albeit important part of its concerns in relation to the global indicator framework, the WMG’s endpoint is structural change. Further disaggregation is,…

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Sixth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs, 11-14 November, Update 6

Eric Swanson, of the Open Data Watch (ODW) gave a presentation on Gender Data and the SDGs during the session on SDG implementation and reporting at national, regional, global and thematic levels. He referred to the 53 indicators among the SDGs, as identified by UN Women to be disaggregated by sex or are gender-specific indicators. He also noted that among them are 11 disability indicators. There are an additional 33 indicators that can and should be disaggregated by sex and other attributes…

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Sixth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs, 11-14 November, Update 5

SDG Indicator 5.1.1

UN Women, the World Bank and OECD Development Centre, with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights are custodial agencies for Indicator 5.1.1 Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce and monitor equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sex. This indicator will track progress on Target 5.1 End all forms of discrimination against women and children everywhere, over the next 15 years…

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Sixth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs, 11-14 November, Update 4

Presentation of updated tier system: Tier III indicators re-classified based on advancements in methodology

The following decisions have been made on Tier III indicators, where the methodology is complete, agreed international standards, and metadata and pilot standards are complete. (Those in bold relate to health, gender and / or civil society organizations)

(For update on 5.6.2 please see below)…

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Sixth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs, 11-14 November, Update 3

Presentation of updated tier system for Tier I and Tier II 

Those indicators were announced that have been reclassified from Tier I to Tier II, in cases where they do not meet the requirements for Tier I classification, and from Tier II to Tier I, where advancements have been made. (Those in bold relate to health, gender and civil society organizations)

Tier I to Tier II reclassification

Having reviewed data availability, the IAEG-SDGs has recommended the following indicators for change from Tier I to Tier II:…

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Sixth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs, 11-14 November, Bahrain: Update 2

During the sixth session, updates were given on the working groups on Geospatial Information; Interlinkages; SDMX; and the Joint subgroup of the IAEG-SDGs and HLG-PCCB.

The Geo-spatial Information Group, which is co-chaired by Mexico and Sweden, held its third meeting in May 2017, working in four different task groups. Their…

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Sixth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs, 11-14 November, Bahrain: Update 1

The Sixth Meeting of the IAEG-SDGs was opened by Enrique Ordaz, Co-Chair, with remarks from Dr Ahmed Hashim Alyushaa, General Director of Research, Coordination and Follow-up at the Royal Court, Kingdom of Bahrain ad Member of Board of Trustees, DERASAT and Francesca Perucci, Chief of Statistical Services Branch, United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)…

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Sixth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs, 11-14 November, Bahrain: Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 July 2017

The Resolution, as adopted by the General Assembly on 6 July 2017 on the work of the Statistical Commission pertaining to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (71/313) completes the adoption of the global indicator framework for the SDGs and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Developed by the IAEG-SDGs, the global indicators are included in an annex.  It is “a voluntary and country-led instrument that includes the initial set of indicators to be refined annually and reviewed comprehensively by the Commission at its fifty-first session,…

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Update: Sixth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs, 11-14 November, Bahrain

The UN Statistics Division (UNSD) has provided further information on the plenary session of the sixth IAEG meeting, including ways in which stakeholders will be able to participate in the discussions taking place.

1. Agenda – a new, detailed agenda is attached. This agenda is also available on the meeting website (https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/meetings/iaeg-sdgs-meeting-06/)
2. Meeting documents – as the meeting gets closer, discussion and background documents for the meeting will be uploaded to the website. (No paper copies of these documents will be available at the meeting.)…

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Sixth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs, 11-14 November, Bahrain

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,…

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