1. Francesca Perucci United Nations Statistics Division
National monitoring of the MDGs: an overview of recommendations by the IAEG and the UN Statistical Commission
Francesca Perucci
United Nations Statistics Division
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Recommendations by the IAEG on MDG Indicators
Recommendations by the UN Statistical Commission
The way forward
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3. IAEG: what are the priorities?
Ensure full transparency in the process from country data to international series
Reconcile national and international data compilation
Improve reporting mechanisms from national to international
Reduce data gaps
Improve national ownership of estimates and country data adjustments
Improve coordination of national reporting on MDGs
Improve sub-national monitoring of the MDGs (for policy making, better allocation of resources across different population groups and regional areas).
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4. Key recommended actions
Identify ways to improve coordination within the national statistical system, engaging the whole national statistical system, for national reporting and for reporting of data to international agencies
Continue to improve the content of the metadata and the tools available on the mdgs.un.org website
Provide training on metadata for the compilation of the indicators
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5. Key recommended actions (continued)
Implement SDMX for MDG Indicators
Identify best practices and provide training for monitoring at sub-national level
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6. UN Statistical Commission
UNSC has reviewed the IAEG work over the years and made recommendations
Key elements
Enhancing the dialogue between countries and international agencies
Ensuring full ownership by countries of MDG data
Developing capacity
Providing training on national and subnational monitoring
Promoting the use of SDMX
1. Commended progress in enhancing the dialogue between countries and international agencies and in resolving data inconsistenciesfull
2. Full ownership by countries of Millennium Development Goals data can only be achieved by improving the coordination of national and international statistical systems
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7. Key actions recommended by UN Statistical Commission 2011
Develop tools and methodology for country-level assessment of progress and make them widely available to countries
Continue to provide training to countries on monitoring MDGs at the subnational level
Continue the work to reconcile the national and international data and to improve coordination of MDG reporting
Continue to provide technical assistance and training to countries that wish to adopt the SDMX standards on MDG indicators
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The way forward
Ownership of national monitoring
Improve tools for sub-national monitoring
Resolve conceptual and methodological issues on some of the indicators (those not currently collected by countries)
Metadata and handbook widely available for national monitoring
Expand use of common platforms for data and metadata exchange
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