Transcript New MDG monitoring framework

Workshop on MDG Monitoring
Geneva, 8-11 November 2010
The New MDG monitoring framework:
New targets and indicators
United Nations Statistics Division
Contents
● New targets and indicators
● Definition and rationale
● International agencies compiling the data
● National sources
Revised MDG monitoring framework: the
process
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At the 2005 World Summit, world leaders
committed to four new targets, in addition to
those contained in the Millennium Declaration
Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including
women and young people
Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health
Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those
who need it
Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the
rate of loss
Revised MDG monitoring framework: the
process
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The Secretary-General in his Report on the
Work of the Organization to the General
Assembly in September 2006 [A/61/1]
recommended the inclusion of the four new
targets in the MDGs framework
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The S-G indicated that the IAEG would
undertake the technical work of selecting the
appropriate indicators to measure progress
under these new targets.
Revised MDG monitoring framework:
proposals by the IAEG
● The Inter-agency and Expert Group
(IAEG) on MDG Indicators initiated work
to identify the most appropriate indicators
to monitor progress in the four new targets.
● The work was undertaken through the
IAEG thematic sub-groups in the
respective areas of responsibility.
Selecting the new indicators:
Guidelines to the agencies
Key rules for the selection of indicators:
 Inter-agency and Expert
Group (IAEG) on MDG
Indicators
 Concerns raised by the UN
Statistical Commission
 ECOSOC resolution on
capacity building
 Recommendations by the
Friends of the Chair
 the indicator and related metadata
need to be well established in the
statistical community
 to the extent possible, the
indicator should already be part of
the regular data collection and
compilation programmes in countries
 available data and geographical
coverage should allow for regional/subregional aggregation and trends analysis
(at least two points in time)
Revised MDG monitoring framework
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The revised MDG monitoring framework including new
targets and indicators was presented to member states
at the 62nd General Assembly in 2007, as an annex to
the Secretary-General’s Report on the Work of the
Organization
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Member states took note of the report containing the
new framework
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The IAEG on MDG Indicators at its 12th meeting on
November 2007, recommended a re-numbering of all
targets and indicators
Revised MDG monitoring
framework: New numbering
New MDG monitoring framework
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The new monitoring framework is now officially used for
the global monitoring of the MDGs
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The body ultimately responsible for the elaboration and
review of the indicators is the UN Statistical
Commission
Resolution A/RES/57/270 B
The General Assembly “…reiterates that the Statistical Commission
is the intergovernmental focal point for the elaboration and the
review of the indicators used by the United Nations system in the
context of the integrated and coordinated implementation of and
follow-up to the outcomes of major United Nations conferences and
summits at all levels”.
New MDG monitoring framework: countries’
participation
In 2008, the new framework was presented to the 39th session of
the United Nations Statistical Commission, to give representatives of
national statistical systems the opportunity to review the new
indicators and related implications in terms of their national data
collection programmes and their reporting to the international system
Resolution A/RES/57/270 B
Member states emphasized that “the indicators used by the
Secretariat in the context of the integrated and coordinated
implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major
United Nations conferences and summits should be
developed with the full participation of all countries and
approved by the relevant intergovernmental bodies”.
New MDG monitoring framework: way forward
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Important that countries become fully involved in this
process to the benefit of their own national monitoring
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Important that countries are enabled to report on all
indicators to inform the global political debate and
promote the necessary actions by the international
community
New targets and indicators
GOAL 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Target 1B: Achieve full and productive employment and decent
work for all, including women and young people
INDICATORS
1.4 Growth rate of GDP per person employed
1.5 Employment-to-population ratio
1.6 Proportion of employed people living below $1 (PPP) per day
1.7 Proportion of own-account and contributing family workers in total
employment
Target 1B: Achieve full and productive employment and
decent work for all, including women and young people
1.4 Growth rate of GDP per person employed
 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per person employed.
 Represents labour productivity. i.e. the amount of
output (GDP) per unit of input (person employed).
Computed as a ratio:
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The numerator is the GDP,
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The denominator is the number of persons employed.
Target 1B: Achieve full and productive employment and
decent work for all, including women and young people
1.5 Employment-to-population ratio
 Proportion of a country’s working-age population that is
employed.
Generally, computed as a ratio:
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The numerator is the number of persons employed,
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The denominator is the population.
Target 1B: Achieve full and productive employment and
decent work for all, including women and young people
1.6 Proportion of employed people living below $1 (PPP)
per day
Gives an indication of the underpaid employed people.
Generally, computed as a ratio:
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The numerator is the number of employed people living
below $1 (PPP) per day,

The denominator is the number of employed people.
Target 1B: Achieve full and productive employment and
decent work for all, including women and young people
1.7 Proportion of own-account and contributing family workers in total
employment
 Provides a measure of the share of vulnerable employment.
 Generally, computed as a ratio:
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The numerator is the sum of
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number of own-account workers (self-employed workers without
employees),
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number of contributing family workers (who hold self-employment
jobs in a market-oriented establishment operated by a related
person living in the same household).
The denominator is the number of employed people.
 Self-employment jobs are jobs where the remuneration is directly
dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced.
Target 1B: Achieve full and productive employment and
decent work for all, including women and young people
International agency compiling the data:
International Labour Organization (ILO)
National sources:
Labour force surveys, other surveys,
censuses, official estimates
New targets and indicators
GOAL 5: Improve maternal health
Target 5B: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive
health
INDICATORS will be discussed on Tuesday and Wednesday
New targets and indicators
GOAL 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
diseases
Target 6B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for
HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
INDICATOR
6.5 Proportion of population with advanced HIV infection with access
to antiretroviral drugs
Target 6B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to
treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
6.5 Proportion of population with advanced HIV infection
with access to antiretroviral drugs
 Percentage of adults and children with advanced HIV
infection currently receiving antiretroviral therapy
according to nationally approved treatment protocol
among the estimated number of people with advanced
HIV infection.
 Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been shown to reduce
mortality among those infected with HIV. This indicator
assesses the progress in providing ART to all people with
advanced HIV infection.
Target 6B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to
treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
6.5 Proportion of population with advanced HIV infection
with access to antiretroviral drugs
 Generally computed as a ratio:
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The numerator is the number of people on antiretroviral
therapy.
The denominator is number of adults with advanced HIV
infection, calculated by adding
• the number of adults that need to start antiretroviral
therapy,
• the number of adults who are being treated in the
previous year and have survived to the current year.
Target 6B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to
treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
6.5 Proportion of population with advanced HIV infection
with access to antiretroviral drugs
International agencies compiling the data:
UNAIDS and WHO
Data for the numerator obtained from national programme
reporting systems - aggregated from health facilities or other
service delivery sites - or reports from drug supply management
systems. External validation of country reported figures is carried
out with data from pharmaceutical industry (if available).
Data provided by Ministries of Health (National AIDS
programmes, under the MoH).
New targets and indicators
GOAL 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Target 7B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a
significant reduction in the rate of loss
INDICATORS
7.4 Proportion of fish stocks within safe biological limits
7.5 Proportion of total water resources used
7.7 Proportion of species threatened with extinction
Target 7B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving,
by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
7.4 Proportion of fish stocks within safe biological limits
Indirectly monitors over-fishing, which has contributed to
endangering a number of maritime species.
 Safe biological limits are the precautionary thresholds advocated by
the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.
The indicator is designed only for global and regional assessments.
Individual country assessments are of little importance because
fishing that affects the proportion of nation-specific fish stocks may be
caused by other countries.
Data compiled by FAO.
Target 7B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving,
by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
7.5 Proportion of total water resources used
 The total volume of groundwater and surface water withdrawn from
their sources for human use (in the agricultural, domestic and
industrial sectors), expressed as a percentage of the total volume of
water available annually through the hydrological cycle (total actual
renewable water resources).
 Shows the degree to which total renewable water resources are
being exploited to meet the country's water demand. It is a measure
of a country's pressure on its water resources and therefore on the
sustainability of its water use.
Data compiled by FAO through its AQUASTAT country surveys
(about every 10 years).
Target 7B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving,
by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
7.7 Proportion of species threatened with extinction
 It is a standard measure of the loss of biodiversity.
Data compiled by United Nations Environment
Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre
(UNEP-WCMC).
Data source: International Union for Conservation of
Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Red List which
assigns categories of relative extinction risk, such as
"vulnerable", "endangered" or "critically endangered“, to a
broad range of species.
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