Marleen De Smedt, Adviser to the Director General, Eurostat 16th Meeting of the Management Group on Statistical Cooperation 20-21 March 2014 Overview of the Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 development agenda Marleen De Smedt, Adviser to the Director General, Eurostat Eurostat

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Eight International (worldwide) Development Goals Established following the UN Summit in 2000 with the adoption of the UN Millennium Declaration All 189 countries (at the time) and 23 organisations (including EU) committed to achieve them by 2015 8 goals, 21 targets and 60 official indicators Using 1990 as baseline against which progress is measured. W. J. Radermacher Marleen De Smedt 2 Eurostat

Focus on global development objectives To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger To achieve universal primary education To promote gender equality and empowering women To reduce child mortality rates To improve maternal health To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases To ensure environmental sustainability To develop a global partnership for development. . Marleen De Smedt Eurostat

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Target 1.A Halve between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than 1 $ a day Target 1. B Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people Target 1. C Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. . Marleen De Smedt Eurostat

Goal 1: monitoring and results (2013 report) Proportion of people living on less than $ 1.25 a day Data World Bank: MDG target of having extreme poverty is met Employment-to-population ratio Employment – by gender and by economic class – as % of total Data ILO: The economic and financial crisis has widened the global jobs gap by 67 million people Number & proportion of people who are undernourished Proportion of children age under five who are moderately or severely underweight Number and percentage of children under age five who are moderately or severely stunted Data FAO and UNICEF: Hunger reduction target is within reach, but still 1 in 6 children under age five are underweight, 1 in 4 are stunted. Marleen De Smedt Eurostat

Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development Target 1.A Develop further an open, rule-based predictable non-discriminatory trading and financial system Target 1. B and 1.C Address the special needs of the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States Target 8.D Deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt Target 8.F In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications. Marleen De Smedt Eurostat

Goal 8: monitoring and results (2013 report) Official Development Assistance (ODA) from OECD-DAC countries Data OECD: ODA in 2012 was $126 billion, the global financial crisis and euro zone turmoil continue to take a toll on ODA Proportion of developed country imports (excluding arms and oil) from developing countries and least developed countries (LDCs) admitted duty free Data ITC, UNCTAD and WTO: The trade climate continues to improve for developing and least developed countries in terms of duty-free access External debt service payments, as proportion of export revenues Data World Bank: Debt service ratios are one quarter of their 2000 level, lightening the financial burden on developing countries. W. J. Radermacher Marleen De Smedt 7 Eurostat

Inter-Agency Expert Group (IAEG) on MDGs Consists of a number of UN agencies, various government agencies, national statisticians, international organisations Provides annually the regional and sub-regional figures = weighted averages of country data, using the population of reference as a weight For each indicator, (an) individual agency (ies) has/have been designated as official providers and as leaders in developing methodologies – UNSD is secretariat + sets up database and prepared the annual report. W. J. Radermacher Marleen De Smedt 8 Eurostat

Lessons learned from MDGs Perception as a 'top-down' UN agencies' initiative Inconsistencies goals, targets and indicators Baseline set too far away Global targets were wrongly perceived as national targets The framework overlooks inequalities Some numerical targets were too ambitious or poorly specified. W. J. Radermacher Marleen De Smedt 9 Eurostat

GDP and beyond: measuring progress in a changing world 2009 Commission Communication Marleen De Smedt Eurostat

GDP+ results achieved in the ESS W. J. Radermacher Marleen De Smedt 11 Eurostat

Challenges ahead in the ESS Publishing simultaneously timely data for GDP and beyond (so including social and environmental indicators Getting acceptance and use of the data by all: policy makers, media and the general public Giving broader society time to “catch up” with the statisticians – 'Measuring the world' - (Sally Engle Merry, 2011) Implementing forthcoming 'Stiglitz 2' recommendations on: Income and Wealth Inequality Multidimensional and Global Inequalities Multidimensional Subjective Well-being Sustainability. Marleen De Smedt Eurostat

Cooperation at international level Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD TF report on Measuring sustainable development – endorsed by CES in June 2013 Support for SEEA, adopted at UN level in 2012 Follow-up of the Rio+20 outcome (2010), the future development of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the context of the post 2015 development agenda – Friends of the chair (FoC) High-Level Expert Group (HLEG – Stiglitz 2) - first meeting Jan 2014. Marleen De Smedt Eurostat

Towards a global set of SDGs January 2013: establishment of Open Working Group (OWG) to make a proposal for goals and targets for September 2014 (UN General Assembly) February 2013: Commission Communication 'A decent life for all': 5 priority elements February 2013: establishment of Friends of the Chair (FoC) on Broader measures of progress May 2013: report of High Level Panel (HLP) on post-2015 development agenda December 2013: informal meeting OWG-Statisticians. Marleen De Smedt Eurostat

Further information Eurostat webpages on 'GDP and beyond': http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/gdp_and_beyond/introduction Millennium Development Goals: http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Default.aspx http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/what/millenium-development-goals/index_en.htm Open Working Group (OWG) http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/owg.html Marleen De Smedt Eurostat

Thank you for your attention! Marleen.desmedt@ec.europa.eu http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat Marleen De Smedt Eurostat