COS13 27/11/02

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Item 4 - Statistical indicators for monitoring
the millennium development goals

• Document E/ESCAP/STAT.13/2
• Harmonization and coordination process
• Millennium development indicators
• Current status
• Links to other indicator sets
• Reporting at country and global levels
• Data flows
• Action by the Committee

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Harmonization and coordination The process

• ECOSOC 1998
• COS discussions and inputs
• UNSC Friends of the Chair experts
• Goals from global conferences and summits still
  valid
• Statistical needs and realities to be taken into
  account by future global conferences
• Need for further work

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Harmonization and coordination Outcomes so far

• Helped in identification of MDG indicators
• Systematic scrutiny of development indicators
• gaps in data availability
• need to strengthen the capacities of national
  statistical systems
• improving coordination of data compilation at the
  global level.
• Standing Advisory Committee on Development
  Indicators

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Millennium development goals

• Universally accepted
• Not necessarily well-known
• Wider dimensions of development
• Measurable and time-bound targets
• Opportunity for statistical development
• Alignment of the work of the United Nations system

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Millennium development goals indicators

• List of 48 indicators 'finalised' in April 2002
  by experts from international agencies
• Realities of indicator selection process
• Complexity and unknown behaviour of some
  indicators
• Shift away from input indicators
• Alignment of development indicator sets with MDG
  indicators

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Reports on MDG progress

• Mandated reports
• MDG reports by UN country teams
• Global reports annually, every five years
• Related reports
• UN common country assessments (CCAs)
• Poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs)
• Various national and international reports by
  governments, NGOs, academia, donors, etc

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Data flows generated by MDG indicators

• Broad range of statistics needed
• Use existing data collection mechanisms
• 20 agencies collect at international level
• UNSD coordinates and compiles MDG indicator
  database
• Wide range of analyses based on indicators

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The Committee is expected to (see paras 37-41)

• Suggest activities for the work programme
  2004-2005
• Make recommendations regarding MDG monitoring and
  reporting at country and global levels
• Suggest further coordination and harmonization of
  development indicators