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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OFFICIAL STATISTICS "EFFICIENT STATISTICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR THE STATE

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23 – 25 SEPTEMBER, 2013, IN RAMALLAH, PALESTINE

MATTHIAS REISTER, SENIOR STATISTICIAN

UNITED NATIONS STATISTICS DIVISION

EMAIL: REISTER@UN.ORG

DATA FOR MONITORINGMILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGS) AND

THE POST 2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA

A NEW AGENDA WILL BE COMING…(FROM MDG’S TO POST 2015 GOALS)

Millennium Development Goals

(MDGs)

Post 2015 Development

agenda

2000 2015 2030

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.. AND THE NEW AGENDA WILL REQUIRE MONITORING

Policy makingData and monitoring

“There is a need to attract national policy-makers to using official statistics in the decision making process to scientifically monitor and measure the impact of economic and social policies”

MONITORING PROGRESS TOWARDS THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGS)

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education

Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

Goal 5: Improve maternal health

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Target 1.AHalve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day.

• The global poverty rate at $1.25 a day fell in 2010 to less than half the 1990 rate.

• About 700 million fewer people lived in conditions of extreme poverty in 2010 than in 1990. (but 1.2 Billion still do!)

Persons living on less than US$1.25 a day

24%22%

47%

1980 1990 2000 2010 2020

Target

Target met !

HIGH LEVEL PANEL REPORT ON POST 2015- ILLUSTRATIVE GOALS AND TARGETS

1. End Poverty

2. Empower Girls and Women and Achieve Gender

Equality

3. Provide Quality Education and

Lifelong Learning

4. Ensure Healthy Lives

5. Ensure Food Security and

Good Nutrition

6. Achieve Universal Access

to Water and Sanitation

7. Secure Sustainable

Energy

8. Secure jobs, Sustainable

Livelihoods, and Equitable Growth

9. Manage Natural Resource Assets

Sustainably

10. Ensure Good Governance and

Effective Institutions

11. Ensure Stable and Peaceful Societies

12. Create a Global Enabling

Environment and Catalyse Long-Term Finance

INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK PROPOSED BY THE UN TASK TEAM

INVOLVEMENT OF THE STATISTICAL COMMUNITY IN THE DISCUSSION ON SDG’S AND POST 2015

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Reports on data and monitoring• ”Lessons Learned from MDG Monitoring” in March 2013 (United Nations

Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG Indicators (IAEG-MDG)• “Measuring sustainable development” in June 2013 (Joint

UNECE/OECD/Eurostat Working Group on Statistics for Sustainable Development)

• “Statistics and indicators for the post-2015 development agenda” (Working Group on Monitoring and Indicators of the UN Task Team - with contributions of 50 UN).

INVOLVEMENT OF THE STATISTICAL COMMUNITY IN THE DISCUSSION ON SDG’S AND POST 2015

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Role of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) • The UNSC is the apex entity of the global statistical system and the

intergovernmental focal point for the elaboration and the review of the indicators used in the United Nations system as indicated by Resolution A/RES/57/270 B of the General Assembly in 2003.

• The UNSC has been providing guidance and leadership in monitoring progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals from the outset.

• It is expected that the UNSC and its subsidiary bodies will guide and lead the response to the statistical needs arising from the post 2015 development agenda.

INVOLVEMENT OF THE STATISTICAL COMMUNITY IN THE DISCUSSION ON SDG’S AND POST 2015

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Friends of the Chair Group on Broader Measures of Progress (FOC)• Established by the United Nations Statistical Commission at its forty-fourth

session (26 February to 1 March 2013) • Establishment of website (July 2013)• Review of Report of High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons • Contributes to statistical annexes to thematic issue briefs of the Open

Working Group• Special event on 17 December the OWG on “Monitoring and Measuring”

which is expected to include many chief statisticians to inform policy makers.

• The FOC will report back to the Statistical Commission in February 2014.

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WHAT’S AT STAKE FOR STATISTICS - HIGH-LEVEL PANEL (HLP) REPORT CALLS FOR A DATA REVOLUTION

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What might be anticipated:1.Significant extension of data requirements and possible redirection of focus2. Increased role of statistics

WHAT’S AT STAKE FOR STATISTICS - HIGH-LEVEL PANEL (HLP) REPORT CALLS FOR A DATA REVOLUTION

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…to be responded to by:1. Making the post-2015 monitoring operational 2.Affirming the role of official statistics3. Development and adoption of new methodologies, data sources and methods (technologies) of data capture and integration 4. Mainstreaming the new requirements 5. Capacity building for sustainable statistics

Will the meal be served as hot as it is cooked?

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Thank you