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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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.

6. NATIONAL SDGs DATA PAGES

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

8. NATIONAL SDGs DATA PAGES
Each African country has its own SDGs Hub (
to create a contextual story using open data.

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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. REGIONAL SDGs DATA HUB

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

15. Report by country

16. Report by country

17. Report by SDGs

18. Progress Monitoring

19. 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

20. THANKS