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Better Evidence for
Better Development Results
Strengthening relevant approaches for
measuring development and progress
Marco Segone, Regional Chief, Monitoring and
Evaluation, UNICEF
on behalf of UNICEF, UNECE, UNDP, UNFPA and OECD
UNECE
UN and OECD response
• Improve quality and availability of MDG data
produced by countries
• Improve availability of disaggregated data
• Technical assistance to support countries with the
next census
• Improve dissemination and use of statistical data
for policy making purposes
• Global Project on Measuring the Progress of
Societies
Improve quality and availability of
MDG data produced by countries
17 countries using DevInfo
to monitor national development strategies
Improve quality and availability of MDG
data produced by countries
•
2010 Regional MDG database: creation of network
of national MDG focal points, desk review of data
availability and quality
•
Workshop to identify data disaggregations to
include in MDG database
13 countries carried out MICS3
Improve availability of disaggregated
data: MICS and TransMonee
Improve availability of disaggregated
data
•
Preparation for MICS4 to be rolled out in 2009,
including new modules on Youth and Adolescent;
Child Development; and Life Satisfaction
Technical assistance to support
countries with the next census
•
Improve Census quality in the collection, use and
dissemination of data on ethno-cultural
characteristics
•
Work-session on population censuses
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Introduction of Census Info as a platform for
Census data dissemination
Improve dissemination and use of
statistical data for policy making purposes
Improve dissemination and use of
statistical data for policy making purposes
•
Annual Meeting with NSO Directors
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Regional HD Network to create demand for data
and to roll out new Statistical Literacy training
Global Project on Measuring the
Progress of Societies
• Is the first systematic global effort to go “beyond
GDP” by enabling and promoting new ways to
measure societal progress
• Foster the development of sets of key economic,
social and environmental indicators on well-being of
society
• Brings together the large and growing movement
that seeks to understand and measure progress
Global Project on Measuring the
Progress of Societies
• Three main streams of work:
- What to measure?
- How to measure?
- Ensure that measures are used
• OECD in partnership: WB, UNDP, UNICEF, IADB,
AfDB, EC, INTOSAI, ESCWA, ESCAP, COE
• Associates: national and international organisations,
NGOs, universities, etc.
• Third World Forum – Busan, Korea 27-30 October
2009.
UN and OECD response
•Are these initiatives relevant to your
work?
•Do you have suggestion on how the
enhance further the UN and OECD
response?