High-Level Forum on Official Statistics’
Response to the Rio+20 Mandate for Broader Measures of Progress

Monday, 25 February 2012, 3.00 – 6.00 pm
Conference Room 3 (TNLB)

The proposed side event of the 44th session of the Statistical Commission will provide a forum of stocktaking and sharing of knowledge among NSOs and international organizations on their experiences and ongoing activities in the measurement and application of broader measures of progress to complement GDP. National and international initiatives for broader measures of progress have so far focused on the development and improvement of frameworks, indicators, dashboards or composite indicators. The High Level Forum will discuss the recent developments of such measures, as well as its connections with the integration of social, economic and environmental measures in the framework of sustainable development, and seek the way to build synergies between these activities and other national and international initiatives (MDGs, Human Development Index, etc.). more...