Transcript Global MDG Monitoring The new monitoring framework Francesca Perucci United Nations Statistics Division

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Kampala, Uganda, 5-8 May 2008
Global MDG Monitoring
The new monitoring framework
Francesca Perucci
United Nations Statistics Division
DESA, New York
Revised MDG monitoring framework: the
process
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At the 2005 World Summit, world leaders
committed to four new targets, in addition to
those contained in the Millennium Declaration
Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including
women and young people
Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health
Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those
who need it
Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the
rate of loss
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Revised MDG monitoring framework: the
process
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The Secretary-General in his Report on the
Work of the Organization to the General
Assembly in September 2006 [A/61/1]
recommended the inclusion of the four new
targets in the MDGs framework
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The S-G indicated that the IAEG would
undertake the technical work of selecting the
appropriate indicators to measure progress
under these new targets.
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Revised MDG monitoring framework:
proposals by the IAEG
● The Inter-agency and Expert Group
(IAEG) on MDG Indicators initiated work
to identify the most appropriate indicators
to monitor progress in the four new targets.
● The work was undertaken through the
IAEG thematic sub-groups in the
respective areas of responsibility.
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Selecting the new indicators:
Guidelines to the agencies
Key rules for the selection of indicators:
 Inter-agency and Expert
Group (IAEG) on MDG
Indicators
 Concerns raised by the UN
Statistical Commission
 ECOSOC resolution on
capacity building
 Recommendations by the
Friends of the Chair
 the indicator and related metadata
need to be well established in the
statistical community
 to the extent possible, the
indicator should already be part of
the regular data collection and
compilation programmes in countries
 available data and geographical
coverage should allow for regional/subregional aggregation and trends analysis
(at least two points in time)
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The new indicators
The responsible agencies within the IAEG
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Should provide the data and metadata according
to the recommendations
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Should ensure the use of the most appropriate
methodology and full transparency on the
estimates and adjustments made to the data
provided by countries
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Revised MDG monitoring framework:
proposals by the IAEG
New Target (Goal 1): Achieve full and productive employment and decent
work for all, including women and young people
Proposed indicators:
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Growth rate of GDP per person employed
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Employment-to-population ratio
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Proportion of people in employment living under $1(PPP) per day
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Proportion of own account and contributing family workers in total
employment
New Target (Goal 5): Achieve universal access to reproductive health by
2015
Proposed indicators:
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Adolescent birth rate
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Antenatal care coverage [at least one visit and at least four visits]
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Unmet need for family planning
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Revised MDG monitoring framework:
proposals by the IAEG (cont.ed)
New Target (Goal 6): Achieve, by 2010, universal access to
treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
Proposed indicator:
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Proportion of population with advanced HIV infection with access to
antiretroviral drugs
New Target (Goal 7): Reduce biodiversity loss, with a significant
reduction in its rate by 2010
Proposed indicators:
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Proportion of species threatened with extinction
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Proportion of fish stocks within safe biological limits
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Water use to total water resources
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Revised MDG monitoring framework
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The revised MDG monitoring framework including new
targets and indicators was presented to member states
at the 62nd General Assembly in 2007, as an annex to
the Secretary-General’s Report on the Work of the
Organization
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Member states took note of the report containing the
new framework
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The IAEG on MDG Indicators at its 12th meeting on
November 2007, recommended a re-numbering of all
targets and indicators
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Revised MDG monitoring
framework: New numbering
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New MDG monitoring framework
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The new monitoring framework is now officially used for
the global monitoring of the MDGs
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The body ultimately responsible for the elaboration and
review of the indicators is the UN Statistical
Commission
Resolution A/RES/57/270 B
The General Assembly “…reiterates that the Statistical Commission
is the intergovernmental focal point for the elaboration and the
review of the indicators used by the United Nations system in the
context of the integrated and coordinated implementation of and
follow-up to the outcomes of major United Nations conferences and
summits at all levels”.
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New MDG monitoring framework: countries’
participation
In 2008, the new framework was presented to the 39th session of
the United Nations Statistical Commission, to give representatives of
national statistical systems the opportunity to review the new
indicators and related implications in terms of their national data
collection programmes and their reporting to the international system
Resolution A/RES/57/270 B
Member states emphasized that “the indicators used by the
Secretariat in the context of the integrated and coordinated
implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major
United Nations conferences and summits should be
developed with the full participation of all countries and
approved by the relevant intergovernmental bodies”.
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New MDG monitoring framework: way forward
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Important that countries become fully involved in this
process to the benefit of their own national monitoring
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Important that countries are enabled to report on all
indicators to inform the global political debate and
promote the necessary actions by the international
community
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