Project
Measuring and Monitoring Progress Towards the Sustainable Development Goals
Client
UN Economic Commission for Europe
Objective
The activities related to compiling and disseminating the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators are commonly referred to as "measurement and monitoring". Our report reviewed the challenges of measurement and monitoring faced by countries in the region of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) and looked at how the ECE and other organizations responded to these challenges at the national, regional, and global levels. More specifically, challenges and responses were reviewed in relation to:
- defining the roles of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) in SDGs measurement and monitoring and supporting NSOs in executing those roles
- coordinating the activities of data producers and users involved in measurement and monitoring and ensuring collaboration among them
- modernizing statistical processes and systems to better support measurement and monitoring
- strengthening basic statistics and accounts for use in compiling SDG indicators
- dissemination and communication of SDG statistics and indicators
- securing adequate human and financial resources
Our Role
Midsummer Analytics provided a review of the challenges of measurement and monitoring of Sustainable Development Goals for countries in the region of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. An electronic questionnaire provided to the 56 ECE member states was answered by 51 of the countries indicating the following as the most common challenges:
- difficulties coordinating and collaborating among stakeholders
- inadequacy of human and financial resources
- gaps in required data
- difficulties in disaggregating statistics to reveal trends in specific sub-populations (for example, women, the poor, urban versus rural populations and persons with with disabilities)
