Background

National Statistics Offices and National SDG focal points often struggle with outdated or limited SDG data due to challenges in collecting, validating, and harmonizing data from various national entities. This limits the countries’ ability to disseminate timely statistics, coordinate the production of SDG data, and report on its progress towards the 2030 targets.

ESCAP has received requests to develop a user-friendly platform to centralize SDG data management at the national level. The platform would connect to a dissemination tool, such as the Open SDG, thus facilitating the end-to-end dataflow to dissemination. ESCAP is organizing this expert dialogue with selected users of open-source SDG data dissemination tools to better understand their needs and identify the key features of a possible solution.

• Concept note and tentative programme

Objectives

The event aims to:

• Understand national requirements and challenges related to the process of centralizing, validating, and disseminating SDG data;
• In consultation among countries, establish a general dataflow that covers the usual scenarios for data collection; and
• Identify use cases of a potential platform based on participants’ inputs