Francesca Perucci United Nations Statistics Division DESA, New York

Workshop on MDG Monitoring Kampala, Uganda, 5-8 May 2008

Global MDG MonitoringThe new monitoring framework

Francesca Perucci

United Nations Statistics Division

DESA, New York

Workshop on MDG Monitoring, Kampala, Uganda, 5-8 May 2008

Revised MDG monitoring framework: the process

● At the 2005 World Summit, world leaders committed to four new targets, in addition to those contained in the Millennium Declaration

Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people

Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health

Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it

Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss


Revised MDG monitoring framework: the process

● The Secretary-General in his Report on the Work of the Organization to the General Assembly in September 2006 [A/61/1] recommended the inclusion of the four new targets in the MDGs framework

● The S-G indicated that the IAEG would undertake the technical work of selecting the appropriate indicators to measure progress under these new targets.


Revised MDG monitoring framework: proposals by the IAEG

● The Inter-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) on MDG Indicators initiated work to identify the most appropriate indicators to monitor progress in the four new targets.

● The work was undertaken through the IAEG thematic sub-groups in the respective areas of responsibility.


Selecting the new indicators: Guidelines to the agencies

Inter-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) on MDG Indicators

Concerns raised by the UN Statistical Commission

ECOSOC resolution on capacity building

Recommendations by the Friends of the Chair

the indicator and related metadata need to be well established in the statistical community

to the extent possible, the indicator should already be part of the regular data collection and compilation programmes in countries

available data and geographical coverage should allow for regional/sub-regional aggregation and trends analysis (at least two points in time)

Key rules for the selection of indicators:


The new indicators

The responsible agencies within the IAEG √ Should provide the data and metadata according

to the recommendations√ Should ensure the use of the most appropriate

methodology and full transparency on the estimates and adjustments made to the data provided by countries


Revised MDG monitoring framework: proposals by the IAEG

New Target (Goal 1): Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people

Proposed indicators:● Growth rate of GDP per person employed● Employment-to-population ratio● Proportion of people in employment living under $1(PPP) per day ● Proportion of own account and contributing family workers in total

employment

New Target (Goal 5): Achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015

Proposed indicators:● Adolescent birth rate● Antenatal care coverage [at least one visit and at least four visits]● Unmet need for family planning


Revised MDG monitoring framework: proposals by the IAEG (cont.ed)

New Target (Goal 6): Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it

Proposed indicator:● Proportion of population with advanced HIV infection with access to

antiretroviral drugs

New Target (Goal 7): Reduce biodiversity loss, with a significant reduction in its rate by 2010

Proposed indicators:● Proportion of species threatened with extinction● Proportion of fish stocks within safe biological limits ● Water use to total water resources


Revised MDG monitoring framework

● The revised MDG monitoring framework including new targets and indicators was presented to member states at the 62nd General Assembly in 2007, as an annex to the Secretary-General’s Report on the Work of the Organization

● Member states took note of the report containing the new framework

● The IAEG on MDG Indicators at its 12th meeting on November 2007, recommended a re-numbering of all targets and indicators


Revised MDG monitoring framework: New numbering


New MDG monitoring framework

● The new monitoring framework is now officially used for the global monitoring of the MDGs

● The body ultimately responsible for the elaboration and review of the indicators is the UN Statistical Commission

The General Assembly “…reiterates that the Statistical Commission is the intergovernmental focal point for the elaboration and the review of the indicators used by the United Nations system in the context of the integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of major United Nations conferences and summits at all levels”.

Resolution A/RES/57/270 B


New MDG monitoring framework: countries’ participation

In 2008, the new framework was presented to the 39th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission, to give representatives of national statistical systems the opportunity to review the new indicators and related implications in terms of their national data

collection programmes and their reporting to the international system

Resolution A/RES/57/270 B

Member states emphasized that “the indicators used by the Secretariat in the context of the integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits should be developed with the full participation of all countries and approved by the relevant intergovernmental bodies”.


New MDG monitoring framework: way forward

Important that countries become fully involved in this process to the benefit of their own national monitoring

Important that countries are enabled to report on all indicators to inform the global political debate and promote the necessary actions by the international community


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Francesca Perucci United Nations Statistics Division DESA, New York