Description: The Asia-Pacific Stats Café on "Governance Statistics – New Solutions and Approaches to Address the Information Gap" was held on Wednesday, 28 August 2024, from 14:00 to 15:00 hr (UTC+7). Concept note Flyer PowerPoint presentations Governance statistics to monitor SDG 16, including through the SDG 16 Survey Praia Group on Governance Statistics About the session This session aimed to provide updated information, guidance and tools for NSOs and statisticians to address data gaps in reporting on the SDG 16 survey-based indicators and to strengthen official statistical production on participation in political and public affairs and on non-discrimination and equality. Seven years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Asia Pacific region faces considerable challenges in monitoring targets for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 (“Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels”.) Many countries in the region have prioritized SDG 16 in their national development priorities, recognizing the importance of addressing peace, justice and inclusion as part of sustainable development. However, reporting progress on SDG 16 indicators has been a challenge. ESCAP’s 2024 SDG Progress Report notes that SDG 5 on Gender equality and SDG 16 continue to be the goals with the least available data and for SDG 16 there is no data for nearly 60% of the indicators and only 23% of the indicators have sufficient data. The SDG16 Survey Initiative jointly developed by UNDP, UNODC, and OHCHR, and approved by the United Nations Statistical Commission provides a high-quality, well-tested tool that countries can use to measure progress on many of the survey-based indicators under SDG16. The SDG16 Survey is primarily for countries that are not yet producing SDG 16 indicators in line with relevant SDG metadata and was created to translate the approved metadata for survey-based SDG 16 indicators into a consolidated survey instrument. The tool is made available to national statistical systems, which might want to use it according to their needs and priorities, either as a standalone survey, to collect data on all the indicators in one single operation, or as separate modules to be inserted in other household surveys. The Survey focuses on eight domains, namely: Access to Justice – Access to Dispute Resolution Mechanisms; Access to Justice – Violence Reporting; Corruption; Discrimination; Harassment; Physical Violence; Psychological Violence; Satisfaction with Public Services; Sexual Violence; and Trafficking in Persons. Meanwhile, the Praia City Group on Governance Statistics continues to work towards the establishment of global standards for measuring key areas of governance statistics, building on the Handbook on Governance Statistics which was endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in 2020. With the landmark adoption in 2023 of an updated Classification of Statistical Activities (CSA 2.0) which includes Governance as a new domain of official statistics, the need for such standards and internationally agreed methods for compiling statistics on various sub-domains of governance has become even more pressing. This session informed about the ongoing work of two Task Teams of the Praia Group which were developing short survey modules to enable the production of globally comparable official statistics on Non-Discrimination and Equality and on Participation in Political and Public Affairs. In 2024, twelve NSOs across the world will be field-testing or piloting the draft modules, and eight more have committed to doing so in 2025. To date, however, no NSO in the Asia-Pacific region has indicated interest in testing the modules. The Praia Group Task Teams are keen to engage with NSOs of the region to discuss the relevance of these modules in the Asia-Pacific context, and the possibility of testing them, independently or as part of a larger survey already planned for 2024 or 2025. It is of paramount importance for NSOs from all regions and all development contexts to participate in this critical testing phase, to validate the applicability of the modules across diverse socio-cultural and political settings. , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
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Description: The UNSD Global Geospatial Information Management Section (GGIMS) was asked by UN-GGIM Americas, Caribbean Geospatial Development Initiative (CARIGEO) to coordinate and deliver a webinar on fostering effective participation at UN-GGIM meetings, on 17 July 2023 in advance of the thirteenth session of the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM). The UNSD in collaboration with the UN-GGIM Americas Regional Committee, ECLAC and the Dag Hammarskjöld Library staged the webinar to an audience of over 35 participants from the Americas. The objective of the webinar was to raise awareness on the formality of participating in United Nations meetings and to strengthen the advocacy skills of geospatial experts to effectively represent and communicate their national positions and requirements specifically at UN-GGIM regional and global meetings. The webinar was moderated by the Vocal for North America, Gabriela Garcia Seco from INEGI, Mexico. Welcome remarks were delivered from the President of the UN-GGIM Americas Regional Committee, Ms. Sofía Alejandra Nilo Crisóstomo from Chile and Vocal for the Caribbean, Ms. Simone Lloyd from Jamaica. This was followed by testimonials on the benefits of participating in the regional and global inter-governmental processes, particularly on global geospatial information management, from Ms. Michelle St. Clair of Barbados and Ms. Artie Dubrie from ECLAC, Trinidad and Tobago. Ms. Ariel Lebowitz, Librarian at the Dag Hammarskjöld Library gave an overview on the UN, its main organs, the UN library resources delegates need to know, and how to access them. The main presentation on preparing for and participating in the annual session of the Committee of Experts delivered by GGIMS included the role and responsibilities of national representatives to the Committee of Experts, guidelines on preparing and delivering statements and interventions and the preparation of decisions and resolutions. This was followed by a panel discussion on what happens in countries in preparation for the session and actions post the session. The panelists were Ms. Pilar Garcia from Mexico and Mr. Paul Riley from the United States. The panel discussion was followed by an open discussion which was moderated by Ms. Valrie Grant of the UN-GGIM Private Sector. This webinar was an intervention that sought to strengthen the participation and engagement of Caribbean Member States and their technical representatives at UN-GGIM sessions at the regional and global levels. The presentations and recordings will be made available on the UN-GGIM Americas website.
