1 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:21,279 Good morning, good afternoon and good evening everyone. Uh welcome to today's global network webinar. My name is Panya Yu and I will be moderating this webinar together with my colleague Alexander Loski. 2 00:00:21,279 --> 00:00:35,840 Today we are happy to welcome my colleagues Yong Yi Min Heather Page and Daniel Ashetti from the UN statistics division UNSD. In this webinar, my three colleagues and I will present on the topic of 10 years 3 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:54,719 of SDG progress insights from the sustainable development goals report 2025. The sustainable development goals report 2025 marks the 10th annual stocktaking of global progress towards the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. 4 00:00:54,719 --> 00:01:08,799 With the 2030 deadline only 5 years away, the report delivers a stark assessments. The sustainable development goals have improved millions of life but the current pace of change is insufficient to fully achieve all the 5 00:01:08,799 --> 00:01:25,119 goals by 2030. The report reveals real and substantial development gains during the past decade. Yet progress has been fragile and unequal. Escalating conflicts, climate chaos, rising inequalities, and 6 00:01:25,119 --> 00:01:39,840 soaring debt servicing cost are holding back further advancements. This webinar will touch on how the report is produced, key findings from the latest data and evidence, and priorities for accelerating progress. 7 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:54,880 The presentation will also provide an overview of related SDG report products developed by the UN statistics division and partners. So let me now introduce our speakers. Yongi Min is chief of SDG monitoring 8 00:01:54,880 --> 00:02:09,599 section at UNSD. She manages and contributes to the work of the development and implementation of the global SDG indicator framework and supports the work of the inter agency and expert groups on SDG indicators. She 9 00:02:09,599 --> 00:02:22,080 is the lead author of the annual global the sustainable development goal report and manages other SEG monitoring outputs at the global level. Yongi holds a PhD degree in statistics from the University 10 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:38,319 of Florida. Heather Paige who will join us uh later in this session is a statistician with the SG monitoring section. Previously, she was an environmental affairs officer with the sustainable development natural 11 00:02:38,319 --> 00:02:53,120 resources section of the economic commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. She has a dual masters from the American University in international affairs and sustainable development natural resources. 12 00:02:53,120 --> 00:03:08,560 Daniel Ashetti is statist statistician also at the SG monitoring section of UNSD. He has collaborated with national statistical offices and international partners on methodology and capacity development projects in trade 13 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:25,920 statistics, development indicators, IT infrastructure, data innovation and the SGS. Daniel previously worked at the UN department of field support, the UN economic commission for Africa and the private sector. He holds a bachelor of 14 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:42,400 science in statistics and computer science and a post-graduate diploma in computer science from Adis Ababa University and Hilico in Ethiopia. And finally, my name is Ba Yu. I am an associate statistician at UNSD's SG 15 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:58,080 monitoring section. Before this role, I served at the economic commission for Africa and artist Ababa. And prior to the UN, I spent about a decade in the private sector, mostly in banking and telecoms. I have a master's degree from 16 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:12,159 the University of Michigan and a bachelor's of economics from the Singapore Management University. Uh before we proceed, just a few housekeeping reminders. This event will last for an hour. Our speaker will 17 00:04:12,159 --> 00:04:25,840 present for 35 minutes or so and we will then open up the floor for a Q&A session following the presentation. Throughout the whole presentation, please do feel free to write your comments and questions into the chat box 18 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:41,440 at any time. And during the Q&A session at the end, you are encouraged to ask your questions directly by using the raise hands function or if you wish, we could also read out the questions on your behalf. Uh as usual this global 19 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:57,759 network webinar is being recorded and will be made available on LinkedIn. We invite you to continue the discussion there after this event. And with that uh let me turn over the floor now to our first presenter uh Yi. 20 00:04:57,759 --> 00:05:22,639 The floor is yours. >> Thank you very much. Just let me uh share my uh screen. So as a mentioned um today my colleagues and I will present the uh SG report 2025. So before I start I would like to extend extend my sincere thanks to all 21 00:05:22,639 --> 00:05:43,600 the SG custodian agency and also to the national statistical systems uh worldwide. Um so those who provide a rigorous data technical expertise and unwaving commitment which make this global assessment possible. Uh so in 22 00:05:43,600 --> 00:06:03,360 today's presentation uh my colleague and I will uh focus on few issues. Uh first we'll give you uh a overview about how this uh report is uh been has been prepared and the key finding from the 2025 report and Pa will uh give you a 23 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:23,199 overview of this uh progress assessment has been conducted and uh then Daniel uh um um present the other SDG global report products and at the end uh we give you a glimpse of the uh SD DG gender snapshot that uh joint produced 24 00:06:23,199 --> 00:06:45,360 with UN women. Um the if chance allowed that you women may have another webinar present whole of the gender snapshot in details. Uh first uh let me start um with the uh maybe just a little bit background how we produce this report. 25 00:06:45,360 --> 00:07:09,199 Um um so the the report is based on the uh SCG global indicator framework. This indicator framework um uh is assessed at the global level use this ind global SG indicators uh developed by the inter agency and 26 00:07:09,199 --> 00:07:32,560 expert group on the SG indicators. This set of indicators um was adopted by the general assembly uh in July uh 2017 and uh um it it also went through two round compressive reviews. Uh so the current indicator framework contains uh 27 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:51,680 231 unique indicators uh addressing each and every one of the goals and target of the 2030 agenda. So the total number of indicators 251 uh with uh some a few indicators which we call multi-purpose indicators. 28 00:07:51,680 --> 00:08:14,319 Um the follow-up and review process of the 2030 agenda uh is informed by this uh annual SDG progress report and is a a very important input to the high level political forum and at the SDG summit. Um the annual uh uh high level political 29 00:08:14,319 --> 00:08:32,240 forum is the main platform for the review and followup of the 2030 agenda uh for sustainable development um and the goals. So the report provide a overview of the progress and challenging uh achieving that disease and UN 30 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:55,279 statistical division um um coordinate with more than 50 international and regional organization um for the global SG reporting. Um a quick overview as I mentioned the this uh uh report is uh like collective 31 00:08:55,279 --> 00:09:12,880 effort of the global statistic uh communities. Uh so the data uh flow for the global reporting and is uh stemmed from uh national statistical system. So national statistical system collect data according uh to the fundamental 32 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:28,160 principle official statistics and provide the data and metadata to the international agency uh for global reporting and uh the international agency which we call consulting agency provide internationally 33 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:45,360 comparable data uh in the different statistical domains and then they calculate the global and regional aggregates and provide uh the country, regional and global data and also company uh metadata uh to the UN 34 00:09:45,360 --> 00:10:04,959 statistical division for the uh global monitoring and uh and then USD make the available data uh and the comparable data um available on our uh global indicator uh database. So this is how data flows from N count countries and to 35 00:10:04,959 --> 00:10:27,040 the global uh indicator for the uh SVG reporting. Um so let me also share this is the uh uh timeline and the process how we prepare the annual report. uh so normally in in February midFebruary that we request the custody agency uh submit 36 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:44,560 the data and also the story lines uh to us statistical divisions and although the data uh also can be submitted throughout the year. So we do uh four four data update throughout the year uh quarterly and uh from by the beginning 37 00:10:44,560 --> 00:11:04,399 of March we request all the story line for the report um uh submitted by the the agency and and the first we will prepare the secretary general's uh report which we call parliamental report uh which is um due in April and from uh 38 00:11:04,399 --> 00:11:24,160 end of April uh May and June uh we we start preparation the uh global SBT report and the progress chart and we normally launch the SDG report um at or slightly before the high level political forum. So this is the the process 39 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:45,200 cycles. Um so let me quickly go over the uh SVG report 2025. So I just want to emphasize uh the sustainable development goals report is the only official report that monitor global progress uh of the 2030 40 00:11:45,200 --> 00:12:06,000 agenda. Uh the the the only UN official report. Um so as the pa mentioned the year 2025 marks 10 years since the adoption of the 2030 agenda. Uh this is our 10th edition of the SG report. Um it's uh prepared uh 41 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:26,880 by UNESA. Um it draws on the latest data to assess performance across all 17 goals identifying uh where advanced have been made. um such as access to essential services and many uh the health outcome and social protection and 42 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:44,720 where progress is stalled and reversing especially in areas like hunger, education, quality, um gender equality and climate actions. Um so with only five years remaining the reports call for urgent transformative uh action to 43 00:12:44,720 --> 00:13:06,800 address accelerating risks and s systematic uh shortfalls underpinned by multilateral cooperation and strengthen data system. Um so here I gave you overview um uh of the uh progress made uh uh by far. So as 44 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:27,920 we have heard today the the hard truth is the progress on the SDGs is far too slow and in some cases reversing. Um we know that the SG have uh helped improved millions of lives over the past decade but we are still far off track to meet 45 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:54,079 all the goals uh by 2030 and on the uh SDG target with trend data uh can be accessed um only 35% on track of sure moderate progress uh nearly half of the target of moving too slowly um making only marginal progress 46 00:13:54,079 --> 00:14:17,040 uh while 18% have regressed. So this pins a very clear picture that we need urgent and coordinate action to get the SG uh on course. Um so uh let me show some like a positive progress. Um so we have witnessed a great achievement that 47 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:36,240 demonstrates uh what is possible when the international community act with purpose and solidarities. So here a few highlight uh what's working well and for the first time over half of the uh world's population receives at least one 48 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:57,360 form of social protection benefit. Um so new HIV infection have declined by almost 40% since 2010. Uh maternal and child mortality uh has a declined significantly. Uh 54 country had eliminated at least 49 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:20,480 one uh and and neglated uh tropical disease. Uh malaria prevention effort have averted 2.2 2 billion cases and saved 12.7 million lives since 2000. And since 2015, 110 million more children and youth have 50 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:42,320 enter school uh with completion rates uh rising at all levels and the gender gaps in education continued uh to narrow. So in the past five five years uh in term gender equality 99 uh positive legal reforms to remove discriminatory 51 00:15:42,320 --> 00:16:03,440 laws and establish gender equality frameworks. Um access to infrastructure uh has expanded signific significantly. So by the by 2023 um 92% of the world's population had access to electricity and internet use 52 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:27,279 had grown to 68% uh in 2024 from 40% in 2015 and connecting millions more to opportunities for education work and participation. So in biodiversity conser conver conservations thousands of local successes have helped double the 53 00:16:27,279 --> 00:16:46,160 protection of K um ecosystems critical to our plant health. uh they validate the fundamental promise of 2030 agenda that a sustainable development is achievable when we combined evidence-based policy with sustained uh 54 00:16:46,160 --> 00:17:08,799 political commitment and investment. Um so uh however so intensifying and interconnected global challenges continue to endanger uh the SDGs. So we from escalating conflicts, increasing and geo political tensions, uh climate 55 00:17:08,799 --> 00:17:29,840 chaos, uh rising inequality and uh inadequate financing. Uh this impending uh all progress from reaching the pace and skill needed to meet the 2030 uh agenda. Some the target and goal are also experienced setbacks. 56 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:51,360 So we show a few of here. Um so one in 10 people still live in extreme poverty. uh 30 years after the land uh mark uh Beijing declaration and and platform for actions, the gender equality remain uh exclusive 57 00:17:51,360 --> 00:18:17,919 and over 120 uh million uh force displaced uh uh persons and in 20 uh um 24 I think more than double the level 2015 and also the COVID pandemic had have reduced health healthy life expectancy by 1.8 eight years and 2024 58 00:18:17,919 --> 00:18:40,080 also marked the hottest year on record and the uh CO2 emissions at level on over 2 million years and then also uh all country developing country facing 4 trillion annual financing gaps to achieve the SDS. 59 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:50,200 Uh so with only five years left urgent action it's critical to reverse this alarming trend and consolidate hardwar 60 00:18:52,960 --> 00:19:15,039 show either insufficient progress or regression on the scoring and the urgent need uh for course correction and the notable gains uh we we show early prove that progress is uh achieved achievable. Um so all this success uh demonstrate 61 00:19:15,039 --> 00:19:33,280 changes possible with focus policy and investments. Um while this report focus on the global trend, global average may mask meaningful advances in many countries. Um this national and local successes driven by sound policy, strong 62 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:54,320 institution and inclusive partnership prove that progress is not only possible but already happening. Uh the report also uh highlighted the the six transitions um identified for their catalytic uh ripple effects across the goals. They're 63 00:19:54,320 --> 00:20:12,960 key to driving transformative change. Um this uh six transitions are food systems, energy access um and affordability, digital connectivity, education, jobs and social protection and climate change, biodiversity loss 64 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:27,480 and pollutions. And in addition uh sustained uh multilateral engagement is essential to keep the goal of within reach. Um 65 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:49,200 so I also want to mention this year's we also have a critical um like uh multilateral uh engagement uh platform uh to advance a collective effort on 23rd agenda and all this conference happened this years and uh uh and make 66 00:20:49,200 --> 00:21:11,039 country recommit on different uh areas for the uh accelerator the progress. Uh so let me give this is my last slide before I I pass it to my colleague Pa. Um in addition to the report and for the annual uh report we also have a section 67 00:21:11,039 --> 00:21:32,799 called data story. Um so this uh this section focus on the the data and the statistic which is essential infrastructure for development. Um so look at the data part the data demand is growing but the funding um for data 68 00:21:32,799 --> 00:21:53,200 is very fragile and is declining. Um 70% of the data aid come from just nine donors. Uh uh this is a major vulnerabilities giving that some of the major donors uh reduce or withdraw their funding for data. Um we uh also uh focus 69 00:21:53,200 --> 00:22:15,520 on this suspension of the demographic and health survey um which really have a huge disruptive uh effect on the SDG data um particular for health, gender or poverty. uh just give you examples, the DHS has been utilized uh to vary degrees 70 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:36,799 for uh reporting of 39 of the SDGA indicators since 2015 and for uh go three and the is most affected among them 11 indicators draw from DHS data in certain degrees followed by the go five generities and 71 00:22:36,799 --> 00:22:59,760 also go to on nutritions and this uh basically uh um have a severe significant effect on monitor and analyze the SDG uh progress moving forward. Uh lowinccome country heavily relies on external support for survey 72 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:17,840 and gender datas. um and many uh NSO uh lack capacity to coordinate beyond the government partners and we did also survey 70% surveyed the country indicated they have funding cut for statistics so the report 73 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:37,440 urging governments and partners to implement the medin framework for action which is a road map adopt at the 2024 UN war data for forum to strengthen data some essential for responsive uh policy making. 74 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:58,080 Um so let me stop here and uh also um maybe invite my colleague uh Pa uh to uh give you a assessment uh to look at the the progress assessment methodologies. Over to you P. Thank you so much, Yongi, for giving us 75 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:14,159 an overview of the key findings of the report. Um, I'll spend the next five minutes or so briefing you on the progress assessment that we now include as part of the main report. This is uh an innovation that we introduced last 76 00:24:14,159 --> 00:24:34,320 year and that we will continue uh uh basically uh for the main report. So the measure that we choose to use for our progress assessment at the global level is trend two target and basically that answers the question how likely are 77 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:53,279 we to meet the SDG targets by 2030 if the current trend continue and we look at data for all 169 targets of the sustainable development goals and we assign a trend to uh each one of those uh so those trends are on track or 78 00:24:53,279 --> 00:25:14,240 target met, moderate progress, marginal progress, stagnation and regression. And for those uh targets where no data exists, we also basically label it clearly in the report. Next slide please. I will explain how we choose uh data 79 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:33,200 series to include in the progress assessment. If you look at the figure on the right of the slide, this explains um the information architecture of the global indicator framework of the SDG. Uh the 2030 agenda itself has 17 goals, 80 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:51,200 169 targets, 234 unique indicators and then those indicators are further divided into about 500 data series and then each data series are further uh disagregated into different disagregation dimensions and 81 00:25:51,200 --> 00:26:06,559 those dimensions have separate categories. By the time you get to the end of that, sorry, just just going back. By the time you get to the end of that, there are about 3,000 statistical variables available in our database. So, 82 00:26:06,559 --> 00:26:25,440 we have to decide which of those data to include and we use the three uh selection criteria that uh is shown to the left of the slide. First, we only include data series that best represent the reference population. Uh second, we 83 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:43,760 look at those data series with wordings that are closest to that of of the SG targets, knowing that the SG targets uh were a political document that was adopted by the general assembly. And third, we only include in our assessment 84 00:26:43,760 --> 00:27:01,760 those data series that are uh that enable us to compare the data over time. So in a lot of cases uh we have population weighted data that that basically we choose to use in the uh assessment instead of absolute numbers. 85 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:22,000 Next slide please. After that pre-assessment step, uh we then have step one. And this step one is slightly different uh depending on whether the data series have 2030 target values or if they do not. For those data 86 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:40,559 series with uh specific uh 2030 target values, we calculate the compound annual growth rate between the baseline of 2025 and the latest year. for example 2024. Uh after we get that uh ker we use it to 87 00:27:40,559 --> 00:27:58,000 extrapolate the expected value of 2030. So this step basically means assuming that the current trend will continue until the 2030 deadline what will be the final value of that data series. Uh and then after that in the third step, 88 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:19,600 excuse the the typo on the left, uh we calculate basically uh a value that tells us how much of the gap between the baseline the 2015 and 2030 have been closed by that by the 2030 date. Um and for data series with 89 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:34,799 no target values, the calculation the for the first step is the same. we basically do the uh compound annual growth rate for the values between the baseline and the current year. And in the second step, we assign a trend uh in 90 00:28:34,799 --> 00:28:58,000 this case based on uh the the change the rate of change between baseline and the current year. Next slide please. So in step two and step three uh basically we turn our calculation into a linearly rescaled range from 0 to 5 uh 91 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:16,880 for all of those data series and then in the final step we aggregate the data series into indicators and then we further aggregate the uh indicator scores into target scores. And after that is done, we can have a pretty clean 92 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:32,240 trend where we will assign uh the trend of whether it's on track or moderate progress or marginal progress, stagnation and regression and so on based on the mean score that we have. So after all of that is done, this is the 93 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:48,480 final product. uh it's a two-page spread towards the end of the report where we are able to cleanly show uh the progress for all 169 targets of the sustainable development goals. And this is basically 94 00:29:48,480 --> 00:30:07,279 something that is meant for uh lay readers. Uh it's supposed to be easy to to to understand at a glance. uh and so far in the past two years uh this is something that we have now included in the main report instead of publishing 95 00:30:07,279 --> 00:30:21,279 separately. Uh and for now uh this is the end of my presentation. I'm going to just pass on to my uh colleague Daniel who will give you some ideas of what other products we also produced on top of the report 96 00:30:21,279 --> 00:30:25,080 to you uh Daniel. 97 00:30:27,039 --> 00:30:46,159 Thank you uh uh I will uh also proceed with uh maybe another five minutes in explaining what additional uh products are there uh supporting the report. uh as as you've seen most of the event goes into production of the the report but 98 00:30:46,159 --> 00:31:04,159 there are supplementary products that we use some as an an input to the report some also uh tools that help us explore more on on the report uh outcomes uh I will try to touch base uh the three that are in the pipeline so the first one is 99 00:31:04,159 --> 00:31:25,600 what we call the SDG extended report uh second one is a database uh that is a main source of uh facts for our report and an upcoming uh product we are uh trying to publish soon on success stories. So the SDG extended report is the actual 100 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:42,880 input coming from our custodian uh agencies. This is uh there one for transparency reason what has been submitted to the goal. So for goal three older story line that we produce if you've seen the report uh we have like 101 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:57,519 two pages per goal for almost all goals except goal three which gets four pages but the input from custodian agencies is more than that. So we had to do some uh selection based on uh data availability 102 00:31:57,519 --> 00:32:14,240 history uh topics and multiple uh dimensions are looked at. This is in consultation with the cost custodian agencies and the the authors compiling uh the stories for the report. Uh so what has been decided is the raw input 103 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:28,720 from custodian agencies should be published uh for people who are interested in you know the the looking deep into the the stories which stories have been picked some stories that were not included in the report uh for 104 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:42,399 further uh you know research and review. So this is actually a great resource for people looking into uh the goals beyond the two pages right if they want to know more about where the data is coming from 105 00:32:42,399 --> 00:32:58,880 what is the story behind it some of them are also coming from big report expert uh thematic reports that come from uh from the sector so this is something that we wanted to preserve and we've published them as you see in the web 106 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:17,440 page here so you can see all this extended stories uh uh uh for for the report. Uh the second one which is a main source for our uh report is the indicator SD indicator database. Uh this is more than a database but the actual 107 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:34,880 data that we use for uh for the report comes from here. This is also submitted. The data is collected as you know we we don't uh take country data as as it comes and publish it. It goes through the custodian agencies for harmonization 108 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:50,960 validation before it gets into our global database. Uh right now uh the availability has increased. Uh Yongi has touched on the data availability increase in our slides. Uh to be you know exact we have 234 unique 109 00:33:50,960 --> 00:34:09,919 indicators. From those we have data for 232 of them. uh in the global database. Uh the overall data count has grown significantly compared to 2015. We had about like 300,000 uh data records when we started back in 110 00:34:09,919 --> 00:34:29,280 2016. Now it is uh more than 3.3 million uh data data points for the indicators. uh uh accompanying the data is a a crucial element is a metadata repository which also has now a machine readable format. So we have the metadata in the 111 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:47,679 repository plus you can also access it through APIs. So this is something that got introduced a couple of years ago uh for for uh those users who wanted to kind of uh uh consume the metadata through API. Uh we also have the SDG 112 00:34:47,679 --> 00:35:04,720 country profiles for people who are interested in uh looking through uh the country data for a specific country just to get an insight of what what is happening in that uh specific uh country. We have these country profiles 113 00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:22,079 compiled for a set of indicators not uh one to one but for those which have enough data set to show trends uh and coverage. So that will give you a highlight of a country in a specific uh time span. Uh there is also a new 114 00:35:22,079 --> 00:35:38,000 additions to it which is called the SDG analytics part where you could do a lot of uh comparison, data availability, look up uh trends for a specific indicator or subindicator. These are things you can explore in the SDG 115 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:55,200 database. I invite you to go through the link here to to to uh further dig deep into the database. There is more resource uh available there. Uh the third component we have is something that uh uh we started this 116 00:35:55,200 --> 00:36:12,720 year is to uh compile success stories. Uh now it is 10 years into into the reporting period. uh we wanted to see uh the other side of uh the story not only the facts and figures but about the impacts and uh this was we had a call 117 00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:31,440 out for agencies to submit stories. We have received about 35 SDG success stories covering all goals except goals two and 15. Uh we we are planning to follow up on that. Uh so these stories these cert 35 stories are uh a kind of a 118 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:49,040 snapshot of the the the impact. So the first one is just looking at real impact in the SDGs. Uh we have examples from like uh USB's poverty reduction uh to moanics climate systems implementation. These are things that are being done at 119 00:36:49,040 --> 00:37:06,960 the local level uh following the uh SDGs as a as a framework. Uh the the other thing we wanted to highlight here is to showcase intercon interconnectedness between the goals. Uh so if you look into for example here it's just a slide 120 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:23,920 it's goal four and 17 are tight. So the the effort in goal for in dig digital uh skills improvement has also an additional impact in goal 17. There is some country examples from Ghana and Dominican Republic in this part of the 121 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:40,560 story that we wanted to show. Uh uh the the the other is like uh the actual people impacted at the center you know uh when we talk about poverty when you talk about access to education uh when you talk about uh you know food 122 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:57,839 security what does it mean? And some of the stories tell the details about uh how families are being impacted lifted from poverty uh you know uh food security is maintained all those stories are there to to dig deep. So what we do 123 00:37:57,839 --> 00:38:13,839 is like a card and with some uh leading uh paragraphs to the real story. So there's it's a single page but the there's multiple links that you can go to to see the real uh uh submissions from from the agencies uh and and and 124 00:38:13,839 --> 00:38:30,960 this kind of shows uh proof that SDG is working to to to the extent at the local level. So it's not only the the facts and figures what we we kind of uh compile at the global level but the impacts uh through uh people stories. So 125 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:46,640 this is uh something that we wanted to publish soon. Uh it's it's in the final stage. The other component I wanted to showcase is uh what we've started back in 23 with SDG summit. This was a collaborative 126 00:38:46,640 --> 00:39:07,040 work with Google on on uh uh implementing uh uh what they call the customs data comments uh infrastructure for allowing uh SDGs a bit more explored in an intuitive manner. This is more of exploratory tool uh but it it integrates 127 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:26,880 data stories from our report. Uh we have also some improved navigation and tools to use. uh for this one I will try to showcase a quick demo uh of of the tool so it's it's uh better to see it live okay the links are provided in the in 128 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:44,480 the in the chat so this is the uh UN data comments uh apart from the SDG there are additional links here but I'll focus mainly on the SDG so we have a dedicated SDGs page when you come to this uh and then uh the usual 129 00:39:44,480 --> 00:40:04,079 uh data exploration by country areas. Uh we also have uh all the SDGATIC areas here very visual. So you can click on one of them and look through. I'll just go through the all SDGs and then it gives you at at a glance how many data points 130 00:40:04,079 --> 00:40:20,400 are there here in each goals. Um you can also do some filtering here by uh by specific SDGs or uh indicator or you can also specify areas here. Uh you can also do the catalog search. Let me just click 131 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:38,000 on say goal two here. Uh this shows the framework in in general but I I like to go to the overview to see what is in here. This is what I was uh meaning. So these are stories and highlights coming from the report actually the 2025 report 132 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:53,200 some of the uh uh media assets are coming here. So all the stories we have in in in the report are captured here. So people can have a snippet of this and if they are much more interested to see the details they can go to the actual 133 00:40:53,200 --> 00:41:10,960 report here. Um we also have some infographics kind of highlighting uh the goal uh that comes with the uh actually the indicator code here. For instance, this is 211. Uh the stories under 211 plus the data say it's along the line. 134 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:30,079 Uh I always like to go see it at one at a time. So you can carousel it like one data card at a time to see the details. Uh let me pick uh yeah here easy visual asset. So we have charts that tells you the trend uh in this specific indicator. 135 00:41:30,079 --> 00:41:45,200 We also have maps that kind of shows what the status of a specific country is. We have developed a new tool that uh is called the charting tool. If you look into here this in the map because it's a time series data it just picks a single 136 00:41:45,200 --> 00:42:00,079 year. So it normally picks the most populated data set. So the most populated data set for this indicator is 2020. But sometimes it's really difficult to see which country is which. So you can do a side byside filter. For 137 00:42:00,079 --> 00:42:17,119 instance, if I'm looking at Kenya, so I can type Kenya and it's like a kind of a context sensitive. You see the details Kenya for 2020. But if if I want to explore more, see what happened in 2015, I can switch the year here. the the map 138 00:42:17,119 --> 00:42:35,200 also changes if Kenya is here uh as 20% in 2015 and the latest data point I can check just to see 36. So this is worsening in Kenya. Uh you can also do other countries like Mexico and the years you can switch. So this is one 139 00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:49,280 tool that is added. You can also download the data set here and then we also have what we call a call out. Uh this is a global figure here. So some kind of exploratory uh mechanism is here. So you can also switch this say if 140 00:42:49,280 --> 00:43:05,119 you want to uh look to 211 in the context of Africa. So you can see uh there's more data set in Africa for this indicator because it's very related to uh developing uh nations. If you if you remember that global was missing a 141 00:43:05,119 --> 00:43:25,040 little bit on the Europe and North America. Uh the other component we have here is what we call uh the search. We could do for instance let me save time. I'll go to the search. I can say under nourishment in the world 142 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:41,200 and just do this in a natural language query kind of understands your query and brings the data point for you. uh you can see here the similar data sets coming from 211 but also includes other data sets related to under nourishment. 143 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:56,880 So when you go through you can see more details. Uh you can also switch here also uh region. So I wanted to look this at subsaharan Africa. So it switch to sub subsaharan Africa and the details come here and you can 144 00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:19,119 also do some comparison under say uh say Kenya. So this time what it does is kind of doing comparison between Kenya and subsan Africa. So you can see the details and other additional inputs from the data set. So it's multiple ways to 145 00:44:19,119 --> 00:44:35,920 go through look at the the data. This is uh a tool that helps you explore more uh without going through you know the being very aware of the structure the framework but if you are very into into the framework the structure you can also 146 00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:50,079 go to the database where you get the the bulk data set and the structured information and uh download the whole uh batch of data set for your personal exploration on your local environment. But this one gives you an insight where 147 00:44:50,079 --> 00:45:03,599 to look and uh how to kind of figure out uh things across the base. And the other one is we also have some sample queries for the search. So you can you can take a look at this one. So here's Hungary, 148 00:45:03,599 --> 00:45:21,200 Nigeria that is data related to that. I can also do the same thing here. Switch changes and then I can compare it to other countries. So uh with this quick demo I will stop my presentation and pass it to my colleague Heather uh for 149 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:45,680 the last uh run. Thank you. >> Thank you Daniel. Um just one second I will pull up the presentation. Okay. Can you see my slides? >> Yes. >> Yes we can. >> Okay. Great. Thank you. Um so I am uh presenting 150 00:45:45,680 --> 00:46:02,000 uh in addition to the other products that Daniel has uh presented on uh we also collaborate with you and women on the gender snapshot. Um and so I'll just give a very brief um overview of the gender snapshot from this year uh as uh 151 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:15,920 there may be a um a larger or a longer webinar that will cover all of the findings. So, uh, the gender snapshot was launched in September on the sidelines of the general assembly, the general assembly. And this, um, report 152 00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:32,319 presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all of the 17 goals, um, as well as trends and gaps on the road to 2030. This is our seventh edition. Um and this is produced uh through um a collaborative process with UN DESA um 153 00:46:32,319 --> 00:46:49,119 and UN women but also with all of the different agencies and custodians of the STGS. Um and so the report really serves as a stocktaking of progress but also it's um it's also an urgent call for action. Um essentially uh we're at the 154 00:46:49,119 --> 00:47:07,839 point now that uh if the trajectory continues as we are uh we will not be achieving uh our goals. So um sorry um so just to reiterate some of the main messages from the report uh the world is essentially retreating from 155 00:47:07,839 --> 00:47:23,920 gender equality um and the cost is being counted in lives rights and opportunities. So if current trends continue, the world will reach 2030 with 351 million women and girls still living in extreme poverty. Um and the STGS and 156 00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:40,400 in particular uh SG5 will also be missed. Um and new technologies and global shocks are really risking uh compounding these existing inequalities. Climate change for instance could push as many as 158 million more women into 157 00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:58,720 poverty by 2050 and nearly half of those in subsaharan Africa. Um and uh kind of as uh Daniel was mentioning we know that the SGS can work with political will and the 2030 agenda shows that what multilateralism can actually achieve. Um 158 00:47:58,720 --> 00:48:14,560 but today we find that the foundation is weakening and the systems built for gender equality are actually being hollowed out. Um so these negative uh trends are not inevitable and they are political. Um 159 00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:29,760 they result from disinvestment, institutional erosion and systems that that are uh that are essentially defunding inequality. Um, and this this is a political choice that can actually be reversed. This doesn't have to be the 160 00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:46,240 end of the story. And investing in gender equality can generate a massive windfall in global GDP and can also lift millions of women from poverty. Um, and essentially we could drive generational gains with 1.5 trillion in GDP generated 161 00:48:46,240 --> 00:49:04,079 by 2030 and over 100 trillion cumulatively uh by 2050. So the report actually includes quite a bit of information on uh what could be gained and what are the projections for what that can look like. Um and we know that a different path is 162 00:49:04,079 --> 00:49:16,160 possible when governments are acting and systems are in place with women and girls at the heart that progress is actually real. Uh progress for instance girls are now more likely to complete school than ever before. Maternal 163 00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:32,720 mortality has declined by nearly 40%. Um and in just the last 5 years, 99 new or reformed laws across the world uh tore down discrimination and advance women's rights. Um and so uh um we also see that 164 00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:50,480 even in the last decade uh women's leadership in climate negotiation has more than doubled uh from fewer than 1 in 10 seats in 2015 to nearly 1 in4 in 2024. Although of course we are still far uh from parody 165 00:49:50,480 --> 00:50:03,920 and 30 years after the Beijing platform for action the world's most progre which is the world's most progressive roadmap for gender equality the gender snapshot and the Beijing plus30 action agenda really issue a powerful call that women 166 00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:20,160 and girls really must stay at the center. Um and the report really provides a costed databacked roadmap for delivery across six priority areas with a clear call to center adolescent girls and young women across them all. And so 167 00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:34,720 um as I mentioned the report also includes uh in detail six priority actions. The first one being ensuring women and girls can reap the economic benefits of the digital revolution and that they're not being left behind. um 168 00:50:34,720 --> 00:50:48,800 that where they're able to access new skills, opportunities, and services by bridging that digital gender gap and providing equal access to technology. Um the action two is um addressing women's poverty by investing national budgets 169 00:50:48,800 --> 00:51:03,440 and social protection and highquality public services including in women's health, girls education and care. Um, action three is adopting, implementing, and funding legislation to end violence against women and girls and developing 170 00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:17,359 comprehensive national action plans, including support and coordination with community-led organizations to extend the reach of services. An action for um accelerating the achievement of women's full and equal decision-making power in 171 00:51:17,359 --> 00:51:31,520 private and public domains at all levels of government, including by applying special measures. Um action five on peace and security um driving accountability for women peace and security agenda and gender 172 00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:44,880 responsive humanitarian action by adopting fully financed national action plans and funding local women's organizations uh leading responses to crises and conflicts. And then action six, prioritizing women and girls 173 00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:56,720 rights, um, including from rural and indigenous communities and the transition to environmental and biodiversity sustainability by centering them in climate action and climate justice, ensuring they can develop new 174 00:51:56,720 --> 00:52:12,240 skills to gain green jobs and guaranteeing their access to reproductive uh, sorry, to productive assets and land rights. Um and so the last message of the report is that gender equality is not an ideology and it really is a unifying 175 00:52:12,240 --> 00:52:31,040 unifying force for peace, development and human rights. Um and again this is we are the the the book is not yet written and we can really choose uh the path forward. Um and it's not a matter of what to do but that we have to do it. 176 00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:47,359 Um, and so I'll stop there uh with the last uh note from the report. With just 5 years to reach the STGS, we need to shift into overdrive. And here's the QR code for our report. Um, and again, you can also find the the additional uh 177 00:52:47,359 --> 00:53:04,400 items that uh and products that Daniel mentioned as well as the gender snapshot on that page as well. Thank you. >> Thank you, Heather. And thank you also to Yong Yi and Daniel for uh presenting on this rich topic. Uh I know that we 178 00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:20,160 probably spent slightly more time than we thought on the presentation. So uh we are happy to also go over time a little bit. Uh for now I have already enabled microphones and cameras for all the participants. Uh so if you have any 179 00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:29,319 questions at all for the speakers please do uh raise your hand and ask those questions. 180 00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:42,040 Any first question from the floor please do raise your hands. 181 00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:56,440 Okay, I see I see a question in the chat. I wonder if John would be able to just unmute yourself and ask that question. 182 00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:14,800 >> Thank you everyone and I appreciate the opportunity to hear progress on uh STGS. This report is concerning um of course for many reasons. I wanted to focus my questions around STJD Jada specifically. 183 00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:29,040 um a couple of questions and apologies for the very long uh note but I thought it was helpful to write it out as I was listening. Uh the first question is around um what seems to be the limitations in country data uh which are 184 00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:40,960 of course gaps in our understanding of status and achievement um where it matters the most at local and national levels. I wonder what tools are being provided and by who to support the collection, compilation and reporting of 185 00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:57,520 relevant STG data uh at local and national levels. Uh so that question is around systems and and system support provided by the UN. Um second questions or the second two questions uh A and B um are around uh data aid and the nine 186 00:54:57,520 --> 00:55:11,440 donors that provide most of that aid. it seems that that remains a bit fragmented in its support and so it doesn't have that multiplier effect that it perhaps could be. Um what's being done to expand donor support uh while encouraging 187 00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:26,800 coherent cohesive support? And the last question um we talk the report talks about NSO's lack of capacity to coordinate beyond government partners. It seems perhaps that the UN system and SDG data custodians may lack some of 188 00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:41,920 that same ability to coordinate and focus support. Um I'm wondering which UN agencies are leading the coordination of SG data system strengthening through country programs again through local and national uh efforts. Thank you so much. 189 00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:58,480 Sorry for the long questions. I look forward to your responses. >> Thank you. Yeah, y would you like to respond to to these questions? >> Yeah, maybe I'll I'll I'll give a start and colleagues you can add in and 190 00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:16,240 comments on the limitation of a country create important gaps. We didn't show and uh there there are great progress in term of data availability over the years. If you look at our uh we think we have a chart and the uh report showing 191 00:56:16,240 --> 00:56:34,880 uh the significant improvement in term of data availability. uh I think at the beginning of 2016 we have about one only onethird of the data we call tier one indicators uh which means the data uh uh like regular produced by country by 50% 192 00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:52,799 of countries um and uh currently the tier one indicator I think it's clo close to 70% so I just want to highlight that it's not it there uh while acknowledging uh the gaps we we do have uh together uh uh made a significant 193 00:56:52,799 --> 00:57:12,559 progress in term of data availability uh and in term of monitoring the SDGs um so the limited uh like a data country data coverage I think there's a lot of uh fundamental issue is the lack of investment in in data infrastructures in 194 00:57:12,559 --> 00:57:28,160 countries and many also many of the SG indicators are relatively new and I I at the beginning one the monitor agenda onethird of the indicator were called tier three indicators meaning that the indicators 195 00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:46,559 um was not developed and didn't have the international standard. So over the year that uh uh we we uh eventually uh create international uh standards and start collect the data but the um the process will take time. Just want to mention 196 00:57:46,559 --> 00:58:03,920 that and the uh international organizations and custodian agencies and the country work together to continue improve uh the data availability. In our annual report we report the progress. So we we do a data availability assess 197 00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:21,359 uhment uh annually and which indicate on the the sum of the we call tier reclassification when the uh sufficient data coverage reached we reclassify the tier uh two indicator to tier one indicator. Um 198 00:58:21,359 --> 00:58:42,720 uh I acknowledge the uh uh the international like uh finance for data is ma mainly come from the n owners uh which is also remain fragmented and uh um as uh the report point out and also I think the par 21 just released a new uh 199 00:58:42,720 --> 00:59:02,480 press report and uh showing there's actually some improvement in data investment but not a lot compared to to investment uh to to others. Um and at the global level I I think I mean expanding donor support 200 00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:21,760 at this environment is challenging is because u uh financial support from um donors uh is shrinking in our front not only on data but our front. The reporter mentioned a few uh particular in health areas we will uh facing a very 201 00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:40,000 challenging situation if country and other donor uh do not step up uh their support particular for HIV AIDS on nutritions um and we know that one of the biggest donor uh significant cut their support on all the development uh 202 00:59:40,000 --> 01:00:02,079 areas. Um so I think the better ways uh how we can uh better coordinate the uh donor support and and uh uh to as you mentioned encourage more co coherent cohesive support um at the country level I think there's 203 01:00:02,079 --> 01:00:24,720 some initiative uh like uh the UN had the country outs and in in many of the the UN country office uh they try to uh uh work with the national government to set up a more cooperated uh uh support of countries. Um I think uh in in and 204 01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:44,960 also some new initiative that aiming and to uh have a more uh leverage all the support uh at the global at the uh uh internal and external financial support. For example, the power data initiative uh some of the country uh launched um 205 01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:58,119 aiming to have a more coordinate uh support. So maybe I will stop here. Um maybe if any other colleagues want to add anything. 206 01:01:00,319 --> 01:01:20,319 uh Yong. Yes, just quick addition to the maybe part A um in terms of uh uh the the data work for for countries local and national level. Uh this is a multi- faceted effort. So as in in UNSD uh have also some capacity development projects 207 01:01:20,319 --> 01:01:38,319 supporting countries in areas uh related to SDG uh implementation in terms of platform standard use of SDMX and tools uh but also custodian agencies have their own specific uh uh capacity development effort. I know agencies like 208 01:01:38,319 --> 01:01:56,400 UNICEF, FAO, who have country offices supporting the the the the implementation and uh of the SDGs at the the national level. Uh apart from that, we also have what uh if you are aware the the voluntary national report 209 01:01:56,400 --> 01:02:14,559 happening every July here in New York, countries come provide uh reporting on their progress. This is also supported uh in in in in terms of a report prep work from RCOS's at the country level uh and also agencies and here in DESA we 210 01:02:14,559 --> 01:02:30,240 are also coordinating this support with uh our colleagues uh running the HLBF. So there is multiple source of uh efforts happening and uh and you can see uh the level of engagement even from the reporting most countries are now 211 01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:44,880 reporting second third time and you can see what's happening at the national level in terms of you know data availability gap assessment and things like that. uh uh we also have other initiatives in the division uh related 212 01:02:44,880 --> 01:03:02,799 to the use of data uh uh one one big maybe header can highlight on that there's citizen gener data supporting the SDGs we also have uh non-traditional data source uh implementation support the use of geospatial data the use of uh 213 01:03:02,799 --> 01:03:15,680 uh sensors and things like that to support the uh data availability gap thank Thank you. >> Yeah, thanks Daniel. I just want to mention yeah for example our data for now project has support data innovation 214 01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:38,400 in many countries but uh as you mentioned many agencies and uh the uh uh also uh additional like partners and try in different areas support the countries data. >> Thanks Y and Daniel. Um let me take maybe another couple of questions before 215 01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:47,799 before we end. So please do feel free to to raise your hand or just unmute yourself and ask your question 216 01:03:51,920 --> 01:04:04,240 >> I see your hand up please go ahead. >> Yes hello you thank you so much for the presentation it was a wonderful presentation. So just to add to the last question asked you know so we are talking about who is leading the 217 01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:20,240 coordination the UN coordination to strengthen the national SDG data system that's one I think you have answered that literally but we want to know how is this accountability being ensured how do we ensure the accountability of this 218 01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:46,559 SDG data system that we have within the UN system Thanks Amber. >> So for the UN Yeah. for the UN system we have this um called CCSU. Let let me look at the acronym. It's the chief uh what's the CSU colleague? 219 01:04:46,559 --> 01:05:03,920 >> Coordination of chief statisticians. >> Okay. Yes. Thank you. uh there's a two agency one is the the s the the coordination of the chief uh you that this is the group that coordinate uh the capacity building among the the UN 220 01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:18,480 system um and also at the different level at the regional level the regional commission and also support the coordination at the region level and the basically there's a different level of accountability at the global level 221 01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:29,400 regional level and also at country level. I think in at the country level the uh UN uh country office play a leading role normally. 222 01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:54,000 >> Y maybe one last question and then we we will end this uh webinar since we are running slightly over time. Anyone has a last question for our speakers? If if not, Yungi, maybe I I take one question that is a bit forward looking 223 01:05:54,000 --> 01:06:12,640 and and from the registration uh link and probably it's appropriate to conclude on on this question. Uh what monitoring framework is planned to be used after 2030? Can you say a few words about that? I mean still a little bit too early to 224 01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:28,319 talk about the post 2030 probably the discussion will happening in the coming years I think two to three years before uh but what we want we want to build on the all the lesson learned from the SDG monitorings and also the rich data that 225 01:06:28,319 --> 01:06:46,480 we collected through the SDG monitorings and the uh inter agency and expert group on SDG indicator u has established a task team um uh for this purpose. So they want to uh leverage the lesson learned uh from SGD moni monitoring at a 226 01:06:46,480 --> 01:07:04,720 different level and to provide the input for the future uh SGD monitoring. I think before I stop here, I also want to add one more things for the progress assessment. We we we do not only use the the like calculation on the u the meth 227 01:07:04,720 --> 01:07:22,160 methodology provided we also consult the catholic agency and in addition to the mathematic calculation they also provide expert uh opinions and for some the the assessment we will uh also change the evaluation based on the expert um 228 01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:36,799 assessment opinions. They just want to add that. >> Thanks Y. I think on on that question a post 2030 agenda. I would echo what you said about now that the focus is actually still squarely on achieving the 229 01:07:36,799 --> 01:07:54,400 2030 agenda in the next 5 years. Uh and also there is now efforts to to try to draw some lessons from the whole uh development and implementation of the uh uh 2030 agenda. And when the task team is ready with its output perhaps uh we 230 01:07:54,400 --> 01:08:08,559 would be very happy in the global network to hold maybe another session on that uh to look at what have been done well and what can be improved and so on. Having said that again I just want to say thank you to all my colleagues for 231 01:08:08,559 --> 01:08:25,600 taking time to come and speak to this webinar today. Uh sadly this is the last webinar of 2025. uh but so far this year we have had quite a number of really enlightening uh events uh with thousands of participants from around the world. 232 01:08:25,600 --> 01:08:41,679 So I also want to thank you everybody who have taken time uh over the past 12 months to to attend uh the webinars that we have put together. We Alex and I are not going anywhere. We will still be here next year and we are now already 233 01:08:41,679 --> 01:08:58,480 planning some uh exciting events for next year. So stay tuned on the LinkedIn group uh and as well as the monthly newsletter that we uh send out with all the updates. Uh and with that, if I could just ask for a small favor for 234 01:08:58,480 --> 01:09:13,199 those who can, can you please unmute yourself and turn on your camera and join me in just giving a big round of applause to our speakers for this session. >> Thanks Heather. Thanks Yi. Thanks Daniel. Thank you everyone 235 01:09:13,199 --> 01:09:24,480 >> so much for the >> Thank you everybody. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you everyone. Byebye. >> Thanks everybody for tuning in. Uh if we don't see you by the end of this year, happy holidays and happy new year and 236 01:09:24,480 --> 01:09:37,719 Alex and I will see everyone again in 2026. Thank you. >> Thank you. Happy holidays. >> Happy holidays. >> Thank you.