1. Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO CES Seminar 2015: The Response by official statistics to the Sustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, General Director of FSO CES 2015, Geneva, 15th June 2015

2. 2 Conference of European Statisticians 2015 | Seminar on the Response by official statistics to the Sustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, 15 th June 2015, Geneva Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Main messages from the CES 2013 Seminar on “Measuring sustainable development in follow up to Rio+20” Building up SDGs that should be measured requires a dialogue between statisticians and stakeholders and a sound conceptual framework.

3. Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO

4. 4 Conference of European Statisticians 2015 | Seminar on the Response by official statistics to the Sustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, 15 th June 2015, Geneva Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Timetable of the Seminar 09:50Introduction to the Seminar 09:55 – 10:25Keynote speech by Mr. Carlo Sommaruga, member of the Swiss Parliament 10:25 – 12:30Session 1 (France) 12:30 – 14:30Lunch break 14:30 – 16:30Session 2 (Sweden) 16:30 - 17:00Conclusion of the Seminar 17:30End of the Seminar

5. 5 Conference of European Statisticians 2015 | Seminar on the Response by official statistics to the Sustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, 15 th June 2015, Geneva Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO CES Seminar 2015 Session 1:Monitoring SDGs at national level (Organised by France) Session 2: Cooperation in monitoring SDGs at regional and global level (Organised by Sweden)

6. 6 Conference of European Statisticians 2015 | Seminar on the Response by official statistics to the Sustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, 15 th June 2015, Geneva Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Keynote Keynote speech by Mr. Carlo Sommaruga, parliament member of the Swiss National Council and president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council.

7. 7 Conference of European Statisticians 2015 | Seminar on the Response by official statistics to the Sustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, 15 th June 2015, Geneva Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Main messages of the Seminar 1.Role of NSOs: more than collecting data and checking their quality 2.Conceptual framework: more than a list of indicators 3.Headline indicators: the Swiss Army Knife Syndrome 4.Capacity building: for all countries

8. 8 Conference of European Statisticians 2015 | Seminar on the Response by official statistics to the Sustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, 15 th June 2015, Geneva Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Coordinator of the national statistical system involving public sector – private sector – academia – civil society 1.Role of NSOs: more than collecting data and checking their quality

9. 9 Conference of European Statisticians 2015 | Seminar on the Response by official statistics to the Sustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, 15 th June 2015, Geneva Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Provide methodological support Advise in the interpretation of data and trends 1.Role of NSOs: more than collecting data and checking their quality Source: Getting messages accross using indicators. Eurostat, 2014

10. 10 Conference of European Statisticians 2015 | Seminar on the Response by official statistics to the Sustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, 15 th June 2015, Geneva Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Leadership in the communication of data and indicators 1.Role of NSOs: more than collecting data and checking their quality Source: www.cbs.nl (updated on 3th of June 2015)www.cbs.nl

11. 11 Conference of European Statisticians 2015 | Seminar on the Response by official statistics to the Sustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, 15 th June 2015, Geneva Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO From the data to the indicator system Sources: Van Gogh: www.kunstbilder-galerie.de; Klee: Wehrli, Ursus 2002: Kunst aufräumen. Verlag Kein & Aber, Königstein im Taurus The “real” worldIndicator systemStatistical data 2.Conceptual framework: more than a list of indicators

12. 12 Conference of European Statisticians 2015 | Seminar on the Response by official statistics to the Sustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, 15 th June 2015, Geneva Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Sound basement Systemic structure Bridge between stakeholders and NSOs 2.Conceptual framework: more than a list of indicators

13. 13 Conference of European Statisticians 2015 | Seminar on the Response by official statistics to the Sustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, 15 th June 2015, Geneva Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO 3.Headline indicators: the Swiss Army Knife Syndrome Essential for policy makers Communication A framework helps to define headline indicators

14. 14 Conference of European Statisticians 2015 | Seminar on the Response by official statistics to the Sustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, 15 th June 2015, Geneva Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Disaggregation Modelling Role of NSOs “Big data” 4.Capacity building: for all countries

15. 15 Conference of European Statisticians 2015 | Seminar on the Response by official statistics to the Sustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, 15 th June 2015, Geneva Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Between countries In the countries Between NSOs and Stakeholders and Users 4.Capacity building: for all countries

16. 16 Conference of European Statisticians 2015 | Seminar on the Response by official statistics to the Sustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, 15 th June 2015, Geneva Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Outcomes and main conclusions I. Adopt the Declaration  Role of NSOs (Message #1) II.Create a Taskforce on “Adapting the CES- Framework to the SDGs”  Framework and Headline Indicators (Messages #2 and 3) III. Regional road map to contribute to a new global action plan for statistics  Capacity building (Messages #4)

17. 17 Conference of European Statisticians 2015 | Seminar on the Response by official statistics to the Sustainable Development Goals Georges-Simon Ulrich, 15 th June 2015, Geneva Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO