Today- The fifth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs
The Inter-Agency and Expert Group on the Sustainable Development Goal Indicators will hold its fifth meeting this week, its first meeting of the year.
Today marks the first day of the fifth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs, but expect it to be a quiet one- the sessions today and tomorrow are Members Only, with plenary sessions for countries and international stakeholders to come on March 30th and 31st. An agenda has only been given for the plenary sessions later this week. However, the IAEG-SDG will have a busy week. This is their first meeting since the formal adoption of the global indicator framework at the 48th Session of the UN Statistical Commission on March 10th, 2017. The global indicator framework still awaits formal adoption by ECOSOC and the General Assembly at some point later this year.
The current objectives of the meeting of the IAEG-SDGs include :
- Present the updated tier system
- Discuss the role of custodian agencies
- Discuss the strategy to address those indicators that remain without a custodian agency and/or a work plan
- Review work plans for tier III indicators and the proposals for new concepts and definitions and develop a mechanism to ensure completion of work
- Present the IAEG-SDG work plan on data disaggregation
- Present the timeline for finalizing the proposals on possible additional indicators
Right now the IAEG-SDG is focused on Tier 3 indicators, and how to move them to Tier 2 in order to begin monitoring through a custodian agency.
Following Along
The meeting is taking place in Ottawa, Canada, in the Eastern Time Zone, from March 28th to March 31st. The IAEG-SDGs does not have an official twitter presence, and no official hashtag is created for the event. #IAEG, #SDGs, #GlobalGoals, and #indicators may be your best bet at covering the meeting on social media, and, as always, follow along as we collect resources and outcomes throughout the week.
References
Here is our article on outcomes from the fourth IAEG-SDGs meeting last year, as well as the full collection of all official statements and presentations.
Follow along with our article outlining current Tier 3 indicators, and their status as to work plans, as well as the official list of all indicators (updated in December 2016).
Here are the the workplans for Tier 3 indicators the IAEG-SDGs will discuss. These are plans that were collected through an online consultation and updated “at the request of the IAEG-SDGs with those international agencies, entities, funds and programmes that are responsible for the methodological development and global compilation of data for these indicators.” Some Tier III indicators are missing workplans, as they “remain without a custodian agency while for others, a work plan has yet to be submitted by the custodian agency.”
Along with workplans, some Tier 3 indicators have been “fast tracked”, which means that custodian agencies or other stakeholders have presented evidence or existing databases or methodologies that can be used to quickly move the Tier 3 indicator to Tier 2.
We look forward to outcomes and updates from this meeting. The work of the IAEG-SDGs is important for data producers throughout the many levels of collection and use.
