Through The Africa Information Highway initiative Africa SDG Monitoring Through The Africa Information Highway initiative

What is Africa Information Highway The Africa Information Highway (AIH) is the AfDB’s initiative that has linked the African countries through the Open Data Platform This initiative covers data management and data dissemination tools The system facilitates data exchange in SDMX

AIH Components Each country got an Open Data Platform (ODP) that allows to disseminate their Statistical Data A SDGs Data hub is available with possibility to generate SDGs reports across Africa A SDG page is also available for each country on top of ODP A Census Data Page ready to use on ODP

AIH Implementation The installation started in January 2013 and the system is now available in: All 54 Africans countries Regional and sub regional organizations Central Bank and Ministries of finance(through the IMF/AfDB collaboration) Some others ministries

Objectives of AIH Facilitate easy public access of official statistics to the general public. Improve decision making based on data Improve data harmonization, thereby increase data comparability. Improve exchanges of data among organizations and countries. Introduce tool for data submission to partners.

NATIONAL SDGs DATA PAGES

NATIONAL SDGs DATA PAGE SDGs Data Hubs built for each country on top of the Open Data Platform

NATIONAL SDGs DATA PAGES Each African country has its own SDGs Hub (http://mauritius.opendataforafrica.org/sdg) to create a contextual story using open data.

NATIONAL SDGs DATA PAGE Data displayed by Goals and by Targets with breakdown to indicators

NATIONAL SDGs DATA PAGE For each target or indicator there are three possibilities: Browse the data Visualize the metadata Or get the SDDMX url that allows to retrieve data in a SDMX format Browse Data allows to display available data in chart mode and download them

NATIONAL SDGs DATA PAGE Visualize Metadata allows to access all available metadata for SDG indicators. It can be documented from international organization It can be reported from the country on task related to SDG Or any kind of information related to the SDG implementation in the country Data Extraction in SDMX format

NATIONAL SDGs DATA PAGE Data Exchange with International Organizations Public Country SDG page Ministry of Health RegionalSDGs Data Hub Health Goals Environmental Goals Ministry of Environment UNECA Education Goals Ministry of Education UNSD Other Goals World Bank Other Ministries SDGs Data Hub Dashboards/Visualizations

REGIONAL SDGs DATA HUB

Regional SDG Data hub A regional SDG data hub is available through this link : http://sdg.opendataforafrica.org/ The main objective of this regional sdg data hub is to provide an overview on SDG implementation in Africa

Report by country

Report by country

Report by SDGs

Progress Monitoring

Way going forward Continue working closely with the countries to assist on implementing the national SDGs data pages & regional SDG data hub Improve our SDG data monitoring based on principles and Guidelines from UNSD workshop on implementing a NRP for SDG held in New York

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