1. Policy Group on Statistical Cooperation 15-16 October 2015, Montenegro
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators

2. Outline Post 2015 agenda and SDGs Monitoring framework and indicators
Role of Eurostat
Summary
Discussion questions

3. Post 2015 agenda and SDGs
2012: Rio+20 conference launch process to develop SDGs
Development policy building on MDGs
Defined process and preparations
Political process
SDGs and their corresponding targets prepared for adoption in the UN Sustainable Development summit in September 2015

4. Post 2015 agenda and SDGs
The outcome document for September 2015 summit describes considerations regarding SDG indicators and statistics finalised:
set of global indicators - will be complemented by indicators at the regional and national levels
call for a simple and robust framework addressing all SDGs and targets
UNSC mandated to develop indicator framework to measure progress towards the SDGs

5. Monitoring framework and indicators
46th UNSC set a roadmap and bodies to prepare a global monitoring framework
Inter-agency expert-group (IAEG-SDGs) – the SDG indicators
High level group (HLG): The monitoring processes
IAEG-SDGs meetings in June (first list including priority indicators) and October 2015 (fine-tune list)

6. Monitoring framework and indicators-timeline
1st consultation on list of indicators in August/September review
2nd consultation in October review
List of indicators and monitoring framework to be presented and approved in UNSC 2016
To be formally adopted by ECOSOC and UN general assembly in 2016

7. Monitoring framework and indicators – current work
Indicators assessed according to relevance, suitability and availability
Indicators classified in three tiers
An established methodology exists and data are already widely available.
A methodology has been established but for which data are not easily available.
An internationally agreed methodology has not yet been developed.

8. Monitoring framework and indicators – current work
Consultations and reviews
Discussion streams: Conceptual framework & identifying inter-linkages among indicators
Disaggregation: Important both from development policy and statistical perspectives but also challenging
Different levels of monitoring
Global: List of indicators prepared by IAEG-SDGs
Regional: Estat coordinating with UNECE
National
Conceptual framework to be discussed

9. Monitoring framework and indicators – current work
17 overall goals
169 targets
1-2 indicators per target (with a few exceptions)
At the time of the first open consultation about 205 suggested indicators (of a total of 365)
Multi-purpose indicators

10. Monitoring framework and indicators – example SDG 1
Priority
Code
Mod
Specification
Source
Entity
Tier
Interlinkages
Goal 1 End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Target 1.1 By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day.
suggested
1.1.1
mod-b
Proportion of population below $1.25 (PPP) per day disaggregated by sex and age group and employment status
Household surveys (LFS, HIES, LSMS, Integrated HH surveys, etc.)
World Bank and ILO
Tier I
2.3,1.2,8.5
1.1.2
new
Proportion of employed people living on less that $1.25 (PPP) a day disaggregated by sex and age group
Target 1.2 By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions.
1.2.2
Proportion of population living below national poverty line, disaggregated by sex and age group
Household surveys
World Bank Data availability:
1.1,8.5,
1.2.1
Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) disaggregated by sex and age group
Target 1.3 Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable.
1.3.1
mod
Percentage of population covered by social protection floors/systems, disaggregated by sex, composed of the following: a) Percentage of older persons receiving a pension; b) Percentage of households with children receiving child support; c) Percentage of working-age persons without jobs receiving support; d)Percentage of persons with disabilities receiving benefits; e) Percentage of women receiving maternity benefits at childbirth; f) Percentage of workers covered against occupational injury; and g) Percentage of poor and vulnerable people receiving benefits.
Social Security administrative data consolidated by the ILO Social Security Inquiry.
Responsible entity: ILO. Availability: Information on old age coverage for 175 countries; on jobless support for 79 countries; on disability for 171 countries; on maternity for 139 countries; on child benefits for 109 countries; on occupational injury coverage for 172 countries. Also responsible: OECD.
Tier II
5.4, 8.5, 8.8, 10.4
1.3.2
Average social protection transfers as % of income / or poverty line

11. Monitoring framework and indicators – example SDG 1
Priority
Code
Mod
Specification
Source
Entity
Tier
Interlinkages
Target 1.4 By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance.
suggested
1.4.1
mod
Proportion of the population living in households with access to basic services.
MICS and DHS; household surveys
World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF
Tier II
1.2; 3.1; 3.2; 3.7; 3.8;4.1; 4.2; 4.5; 4.6; 5.6; 6.1; 6.2; 7.1; 11.1
1.4.3
new
Share of women among agricultural land owners by age and location (U/R)
Included in Minimum Set Gender Indicators
FAO and UNSD (EDGE)
Tier III soon Tier II
1.4.2
Proportion of adult population with tenure that is legally recognised and documented or perceived as secure, by sex and age group
Target 1.5 By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters.
1.5.3
Number of deaths, missing people, injured, relocated or evacuated due to disasters per people.
National Disaster Loss Databases. 85 (will be more than 115 by 2016)
UNISDR
1.5.1
Number of people affected by hazardous events by sex
1.5.2
Proportion of health and educational facilities affected by hazardous events
Target 1.a Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions.
1.a.2
Share of total overall government spending (incl. subnationals) on programs directed to bottom 40% of population of country (%).
World Bank
Tier III
[3.1; 3.2; 3.3; 3.4; 3.7; 3.8; 4.1; 4.2; 4.3; 4.6; 5.6!
1.a.1
Resources mobilized and spent for poverty reduction, including government, private sector and development partners
Target 1.b Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions.
1.b.1
Number of national action plans related to multi-lateral environmental agreements that support a
Data on all national action plans for MEAs can b
INFORMEA ( Information currently available for more than 160 countries
Tier I
Targets 1.b, 13.2 and 15.9

12. Monitoring framework and indicators – important priorities
Based on statistical considerations and statistical data preferred
First list with future adaptations - flexibility
Limited number of global indicators
National ownership and capacity building
Inter-linkages and overlap
Indicators should directly correspond to the goals and targets, and their level of ambition, not undermine or interpret the targets, should be exhaustive and maintain the balance in the targets and should not introduce any new issues

13. Role of Eurostat Consultations in the ESS Future monitoring in the ESS
Observer in friends of the chair group
Observer in the IAAG-SDGs
Methodological input
Support and input to work and discussion streams
Consultations in the ESS
Future monitoring in the ESS

14. Summary observations
Focus on availability and inter-linkages to limit number of targets and indicators
Scope of SDGs provides future data requirements and need for statistical capacity building – data needs go beyond current availability
Developed in complex and multi-stakeholder environment
Consider SDGs in context of improving Official Statistics and exploring new ways of providing statistical data

15. Discussion questions
1. How do the enlargement countries consider the process of developing the SDG monitoring framework and how are the NSIs in the enlargement countries involved?
2. How do the NSIs consider the data requirements in the SDGs monitoring framework and the need for capacity building?
3. Which opportunities and challenges does the SDGs monitoring bring to NSIs and national administrations in the context of providing data for SDG indicators? And in the context of future ways of providing/producing Official Statistics?