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…

Countries: 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
Environmental-Economic Accounting for evidence-based policy in Africa and Asia

As a set of interconnected goals, monitoring and measuring the progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals necessitates the use of integrated frameworks. The United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) is an international statistical standard which integrates economic and environmental information into a common framework to measure the contribution of the environment to the economy and the impact of the economy on the environment. The SEEA provides countries with…

Countries: Kenya , Mozambique , Senegal , Indonesia , Philippines
Partners: UNDP, UN Environment, UNESCAP, UNECA
Status: Active
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…

Countries: Ethiopia , Mozambique , Morocco , Tunisia , Sierra Leone , Viet Nam , Pakistan , Jordan
Partners: World Bank, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Economic Commission for Africa, UNRCOs
Donors: Italy
Status: Active
Improved local and national government capacities for localizing SDGs progress through Voluntary Local Reviews

The achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs largely depends on inclusive national and local actions. The primary objective of the present proposal is to support the acceleration and scaling up of SDGs implementation and localization through the preparations of Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) of SDG implementation in the target countries and regions and, through this process, to build the capacities of government officials at the national and subregional levels…

Countries: Mozambique , Zimbabwe , Argentina , Bolivia (Plurinational State of) , Paraguay
Partners: ECA, ECLAC, RCOs, UNHABITAT
Donors: Italy
Status: Active