Newsletter
Highlights
- Annual review by FCDO awards the project an A+ rating
- Project extended one year, with pivot towards piloting use of innovative data sources and methods
- Countries present experiences at the hybrid 2021 United Nations World Data Forum
- UNSD launches the SDG and COVID-19 data visualization toolkit
- Countries work to ensure sustainability of SDG monitoring beyond project end
Highlights
- Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic countries showed a strong, continued commitment to SDG monitoring and made significant advances
- Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians launched
- Pioneering SDMX-based pilot reference metadata exchange for SDG indicators successfully completed
- Virtual workshops continue to successfully deliver capacity building to countries
Highlights
- Project receives an A rating in Annual Review by FCDO
- Eight countries presented their Voluntary National Reviews at the High-Level Political Forum, many with strong data elements
- New SDG Lab developments allow comparison between national and global metadata for each indicator
- Wide range of online training workshops and webinars held
Highlights
- IMPORTANT PROJECT UPDATE :The project now also covers support to COVID-19 data
response:
- Establishment of national COVID-19 data hubs
- COVID-19 related survey work
- Linkages between COVID-19 and the SDGs
- SDG related activities continue on a remote basis
Highlights
- 4th annual project meeting
- More national SDG platforms launched
- Data sharing arrangement template available
- SDG lab available to countries and agencies who provide data
Highlights
- E-learning course on metadata compilation for national SDG indicators now available.
- 13 project countries met in Amman to exchange experiences on user engagement.
- Four project countries presented their Voluntary National Reviews at the HLPF.
Highlights
Overview of missions to countries between December 2018 and February 2019- 4 metadata workshops in Africa and 2 metadata workshops in Asia
- 2 platform missions
- 2 initiation missions
- 1 regional SDMX workshop