Events

Resources for participants

• Plenary sessions provisional agenda (PDF)
• List of participants (PDF)
• Information note for participants (PDF)
• Concept note | Parallel session 9A: Lessons learned from national SDG implementation in Asia and the Pacific (PDF)
• Concept note | Session 12: Interactive session on lessons learned and the way forward for SDG monitoring (PDF)
• Guiding questions for plenary and parallel sessions (PDF)
• Recordings of plenary sessions:
  • Day 1, morning session (Plenary room)
  • Day 1, afternoon session (Plenary room | Parallel room)
  • Day 2, morning session (Plenary room | Parallel room)
  • Day 2, afternoon session (Plenary room)

Presentations

Agenda item 2.

Current state of SDG progress: global and regional SDG reports 2025

• The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025 (PDF)
• The Gender Snapshot 2025 (PDF)
• Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report 2025 (PDF)
• Global Report on SDG 16: Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies (PDF)

Agenda item 3.

Working groups and task teams of the IAEG-SDGs

• Working Group on Geospatial Information (WGGI) (PDF)
• Working Group on SDMX (PDF)
• Task Team on Lessons Learned from Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals (PDF)

Agenda item 4.

Data availability, refinement and metadata review of the SDG indicators

• Data availability review/tier reclassifications and refinements (PDF)
• Metadata update request: Indicator 17.14.1 (PDF)

Agenda item 5.

Thematic updates for SDG monitoring and implementation

• The Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for SIDS (ABAS) monitoring and evaluation framework (PDF)
• International poverty line update (PDF)
• DELTA Resilience - the new disaster losses and damages tracking system (PDF)
• City and local-level monitoring: new challenges to urban data collection in the last mile of SDG (PDF)

Agenda item 6a.

Implementation, monitoring and reporting on SDGs at different levels

• Measuring and reporting progress with Open SDG (PDF)
• Russian Federation SDG monitoring experience (PDF)
• Kitakyushu city’s SDGs initiatives (PDF)
• Promoting inclusion of target 3.a in the countries’ SDG reports (PDF)
• Localizing SDG indicators in Germany and beyond: an evidence-based indicator evaluation framework for Voluntary Local Reviews (PDF)

Agenda item 6b.

Harnessing AI and emerging data innovations to accelerate the SDGs

• Mobile network operator data for internal migration/geospatial data for environmental indicators (PDF)
• IT modernization (PDF)
• Aviation data and AI in the Sky (PDF)
• Developing regional and national indicators for SDGs 14.1.1a, index of coastal eutrophication, with Global Eutrophication Watch (PDF)
• SDGsEYES: Embedding Earth Observation services in SDG reporting and policy cycles (PDF)

Agenda item 7a.

Data disaggregation and inclusive data

• Strengthening institutional mechanisms and practical approaches to enhance disaggregated data coverage: the case of Greece (PDF)
• Strengthening national capacity for Small Area Estimation in official statistics (PDF)
• Gender Data Compass (PDF)
• Beyond disaggregation: equality insights and the role of individual-level data for inclusion (PDF)

Agenda item 7b.

Data communication and use lab

• Making progress in communicating progress-CES UNECE Steering Group on SDGs Communication Fortnights as an example of innovative approaches in communicating data and statistics for 2030 Agenda (PDF)
• Data storytelling for SDG reporting (PDF)
• De-mystifying data and building trust (PDF)
• Ensuring accessibility in communicating data (PDF)

Agenda item 9a.

Lessons learned from national SDG implementation in Asia and the Pacific (PDF)

• Brunei Darussalam (PDF)
• Cambodia (PDF)
• Philippines (PDF)
• Republic of Korea (PDF)

Agenda item 9b.

From dialogue to action: celebrating three years of progress on citizen data (PDF)

Agenda item 10a.

Special focus session – data for climate and environmental action

• Climate and environmental data in Belize: challenges and progress (PDF)
• Operationalizing the monitoring framework for the Global Biodiversity Framework (PDF)
• Beyond the numbers - acceleration strategy to achieve Sendai Framework targets in the final five years (PDF)
• Bridging data gaps in the Pacific: gender, climate change, and disaster resilience (PDF)

Agenda item 10b.

Capacity building, institutional coordination and data partnership

• Chile’s experience working with UNICEF on SDG-related efforts focused on children and adolescents (PDF)
• India’s experience in strengthening capacity and data partnerships for SDGs (PDF)
• Reflections on the 2030 Agenda: 10 Years of SDGs (PDF)
• Disability training for NSOs (PDF)

Agenda item 12.

Interactive session on lessons learned and the way forward for SDG monitoring

• Research on post-2030 development framework (PDF)
• Beyond-GDP (PDF)
• Small group exercise on lessons learned focusing on monitoring experiences and the way forward (PDF)

Agenda item 13.

Financing for data and emerging issues

• From principles to actions: towards a nationally owned and sustainable framework for health and demographic statistics (PDF)
• Outcomes of the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) (PDF)
• Overview of the OECD DAC policy marker on inclusion and empowerment of persons with disabilities (PDF)

Agenda item 14.

UNSC 57: Workplan and next steps (PDF)