Strengthening the capacity of least developed countries to develop evidence-based, coherent and well financed strategies to implement the 2030 Agenda

This project provided technical assistance to four least developed countries (LDCs), Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Lao PDR and Tanzania, on different aspects of their efforts to integrate the 2030 Agenda into national development plans and strategies. The work focused on areas that many countries have identified as a priority for technical assistance in their Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs): policy coherence and inclusiveness (including aspects such as modeling, institutional arrangements and…

Recipients: Ethiopia, Tanzania, Lao PDR, Bangladesh
Partners: ECA, ESCAP, UNDP
Donors: China
Status: Closed
Strengthening geospatial information management in developing countries towards implementing the 2030 Agenda

The project focuses on improving and strengthening the national geospatial information management capacities of developing countries in two beneficiary regions, namely, Africa and Asia and the Pacific, towards implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and evidence-based policy and decision-making. The 2030 Agenda recognizes that timely and accessible geospatial information and statistics, and their combined analyses, are a prerequisite for good policy-making and supporting and…

Recipients: Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Mongolia, Nepal, Fiji, Tonga
Partners: UNOOSA, ESCAP, ECA, ECLAC
Status: Closed
Enhancing national statistical capacity to measure, monitor, assess and report on progress on achieving post-2015 goals and targets for sustainable development

The project helped to strengthen the capacity of selected developing countries in Africa and Asia to measure, monitor and report progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda. The project activities will result in conducted national dialogues and meetings among and between policy makers, data producers/statisticians and other data users on SDGs/post-2015 monitoring; assessment of the statistical capacities for SDGs/post-2015 monitoring and…

Recipients: Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Cambodia, Philippines, Viet Nam
Partners: ECA, ESCAP, UNDP
Status: Closed
Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals

The project aims at making Sustainable development goal data of project countries open and available to the widest possible audience by improving the dissemination and use of Sustainable Development Goal indicators at national and international levels. The project will build capacity of countries in dissemination of data; modernisation of their National Statistical Systems with up-to-date technology and skills; engagement with key users of data; and will create an on-line, international data…

Recipients: Uganda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Viet Nam, Bangladesh, Nepal
Donors: UK, DFID
Status: Closed
Accelerating implementation of Data For Now in eight countries in Africa and Asia

The Data For Now initiative (Data4Now) aims to develop countries’ capacities to deliver the information needed by local and national policy and decision makers to achieve the 2030 Agenda and make a positive difference in people’s lives.  To this end, it supports members of the national statistical systems in participating countries to collaborate more effectively with local, national and global partners from intergovernmental organizations, academia, civil society and the private sector, in…

Recipients: Ethiopia, Morocco, Tunisia, Sierra Leone, Viet Nam, Jordan
Partners: World Bank, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Economic Commission for Africa, UNRCOs
Donors: Italy
Status: Closed