This request is in response to an invitation from the CARICOM Secretariat and covers travel expenses for one UNSD staff member to attend the "Regional Capacity Building for the CARICOM Core Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Indicators" workshop in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on 20-23 November 2023.

The work is related to DESA sub-programme 4 as outlined in the “Proposed programme budget” (A/77/6 (sect.9), para 9.61): “…to strengthen the capacity of Member States with regard to the production and use of high-quality, timely, disaggregated, open data and national statistics and geospatial information as a basis on which to inform policy and decision-making for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and for other United Nations policy agendas and to review progress at the national and international levels.”, contributing to the specified results as shown in A/77/6 (sect.9) para. 9.63:
(a) Enhanced quality, availability and access to policy-relevant statistical and geospatial information;
(b) Increased production and dissemination by Member States of better data and national statistics and geospatial information that are comparable and in line with the adopted international frameworks and standards and provision of enhanced and open access to them;
(c) Enhanced coherence and more effective functioning and transformation of the global statistical and geospatial systems; and
(d) Increased statistical and geospatial information capacity of Member States and the United Nations system.

Concretely, the work in this activity will provide CARICOM Member States with information and resources on technical assistance to improve the availability of SDG data and the production of SDG indicators.