1. Regional Action Plan for SDG Data
Progress and future Steps
December 2018

2. Six strategic areas 1: Coordination and leadership;
2: Innovation and modernization of official statistics;
3: Strengthening basis statistical activities and programmes;
4: Dissemination and use of data;
5: Multi-stakeholder partnership for sustainable development data;
6: Mobilizing resources and coordinating efforts for statistical capacity building.

3. 1. Coordination and Leadership
1.1. Strengthening inter-agency coordination in the region
RCM Task Force on SDG Data
Inventory of statistics activities
Mapping of regional data flows
1.2 Establishing a link between the inter-agency and intergovernmental coordination
- Statistical Committee of ESCWA

4. 2. Innovation and modernization
2.1 National and regional strategies for development of statistics (NSDS/RSDS)
Partnership with PARIS21, AfDB, ECA, Eurostat
Completed: Egypt, Jordan
2.2 Data sharing
Vision of regional data flows
2.3 Geospatial information
-Environment statistics
Censuses
Questionnaire/survey - national statistical offices
UNGGIM Arab states
2.4 Transformative agenda for official statistics
- Big Data Team

5. 3. Strengthen basic activities / programmes
3.1 Economic Statistics
National Accounts, Islamic Finance
Harmonized price statistics
Trade statistics dashboard
3.2 Demographic and social statistics
Disability statistics
Censuses
Poverty measurement
3.3 Environment statistics
SEEA

6. 4. Dissemination and use of data
4.1 Modernising data dissemination and communication
Data Management Module
Data Portal
Using business intelligence tools
4.2 Statistical Literacy
Translation of SDG indicators metadata
E-learning on environment statistics
Integrated curriculum on gender statistics (e-learning, training of trainers, follow-up classroom training)

7. 5. Multi-stakeholder partnership
5.1. Regional partnership
UN agencies (RCM members)
Leagues of Arab States
AITRS, SESRIC, GCC-Stat
other partners
5.2 Promote national partnership
Users – producers of statistics
Statisticians – policy makers

8. 6. Mobilize resources 6.1. Inter-agency partnership
Costs sharing (LAS, AITRS, SESRIC, UN Women, UN Habitat, UNFPA, UNICEF,…)
6.2 Development Account programmes
10th tranche – capacity building for SDG data and statistics
4 pillars: institutional, demographic/social, economic, environment
6.3 Partnership with funds and development banks
World Bank

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