Research, Methods and Good Practices
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Principles and Standards | Research, Methods and Good Practices
Case Studies
Case Studies
Data Roadmaps
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Case Studies
Leave No One Behind | Principles and Standards
Research, Methods and Good Practices
The statistical community need to agree upon a robust estimate of resource needs for increased investments in development data. Data for Development: A Needs Assessment for SDG Monitoring and Capacity Development attempts to respond to that challenge.
Research, Methods and Good Practices
Harnessing the Data Revolution to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals: Enabling Frogs to Leap, a report of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the JICA Research Institute, analyzes the challenges and opportunities that exist in the pursuit of the data revolution.
Leave No One Behind | Research, Methods and Good Practices
The Africa Data Revolution Report 2016: Highlighting developments in African data ecosystems is envisioned to provide a thorough review on the data ecosystem in the continent based on in-depth country assessments.
Research, Methods and Good Practices
The report intends to support national and international policy makers taking an evidence-based approach to SDG planning and implementation. It looks to design modern, fit-for-purpose data systems that improve the quality, reach and impact of public service delivery and strengthen environmental protection. It sets out a vision for modern data systems, supported by a broad range of actors, while also providing specific recommendations to drive urgent action.
Principles and Standards | Research, Methods and Good Practices
This global plan is intended to provide a framework for discussion on, and planning and implementation of statistical capacity building necessary to achieve the scope and intent of the 2030 Agenda.
Leave No One Behind | Research, Methods and Good Practices
This report sets out priority actions and good practices that will help policy makers and providers of development assistance to bridge the global data divide, notably by strengthening statistical systems in developing countries to produce better data for better policies and better lives.
Leave No One Behind | Research, Methods and Good Practices
As sustainable development becomes ever more embedded in government and corporate practice, the world of research has increasingly shifted its thinking to economic, social and environmental impacts.
Research, Methods and Good Practices
There is strong rhetorical consensus that better data are a prerequisite to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and leaving no one behind, but the demand for better data has not translated into corresponding growth in funding. To confront this challenge, this paper seeks to better understand what we know about the value of data. How have economists and other researchers attempted to measure the value of data and how well do they do at painting the picture of what data are really worth?
Case Studies | Data Roadmaps
Case Studies | Data Roadmaps
Research, Methods and Good Practices
The State of Development Data Funding report provides updated estimates of the cost of producing the final set of SDG indicators agreed by the Inter-Agency Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs).
Research, Methods and Good Practices
Meeting the data challenges of the SDGs will require increased investments in international and national data and statistical systems. This resource makes the case for investing in data, highlight the current state of financing for statistics, identify funding gaps, and make the case for not just more but better financing for data.
Data4SDGs Toolbox
The Global Philanthropy Data Charter is intended as a framework to guide organizations in the sector as they set out to improve philanthropy data, acknowledging the diversity of context, culture, and legal framework within which these organizations operate.
Data Roadmaps
Data4SDGs Toolbox
This module offers a primer and straightforward guidance aimed primarily at countries on gender data collection for national data roadmaps. It is the first iteration of this module, which Data2X will deepen over time, building in more real-world examples and practical advice along the way.
Data4SDGs Toolbox
The objective of this Data4SDGs Toolbox module is to improve the foundations of young people and youth organizations in using, understanding and gathering data in order for them to become key actors in the SDGs Data Revolution. More specifically, the module would address:
Data4SDGs Toolbox
A Data Financing and Mutual Accountability Pact is a performance-based agreement between the national government, a set of county governments, external funders and other relevant parties, whereby the national government and external funders would reward county governments for progress made in producing and publishing better data in one or two pillar areas defined in the national SDG Data Revolution Roadmap.
Data4SDGs Toolbox
Data4SDGs Toolbox
This Data4SDGs Toolbox module explores how citizen-generated data — data individuals or their organizations produce to directly monitor, demand or drive change on issues that affect them — can be leveraged to support the effective tracking of progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Data4SDGs Toolbox
This module provides an overarching framework and set of guidelines for developing data roadmaps for sustainable development. It articulates the overall goals and purposes of the Data4SDGs Toolbox and links other modules to the roadmap process.
Principles and Standards | Training and Capacity Building
Its main objective is to contribute to promoting statistical literacy across the world, among young and adults, in all walks of life. To this end, we provide an online repository of international resources and news in Statistical Literacy, international activities to promote the resources and the individuals and institutions behind them, and outreach activities to increase awareness.
Research, Methods and Good Practices
Measuring whether, when, how, and why individual development partners have influenced reform efforts in low- and middle-income countries is a challenge that has confounded scholars, practitioners, and policymakers for many decades. In a report launched in October 2015, AidData draws upon the firsthand experiences and observations of nearly 6,750 policymakers and practitioners in 126 countries to answer these critical questions.
Training and Capacity Building
DataRepública is a digital platform oriented to connect citizens to data and to strengthen the skills of the development actors for evidence-based decision-making and communication based on data, connecting the dots and producing inputs to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Platforms and Applications
The Open Data Inventory (ODIN) assesses the coverage and openness of official statistics to identify gaps, promote open data policies, improve access, and encourage dialogue between national statistical offices (NSOs) and data users. Scores allow comparisons across topics and countries. In 2016, 125 countries were assessed.
Research, Methods and Good Practices
The report analyses how SDG 16 can be measured by the existing stock of data as it exists in 2016, while outlining the levels of required disaggregation, availability and reliability. The audit includes data from both government and third party organisations. Having a clear understanding of the state of available data and its origins, is integral to understand the next steps in building a comprehensive measurement platform for Goal 16. It also enables a clearer understanding of NSOs requirements.
Research, Methods and Good Practices
Implementing Agenda 2030: Unpacking the Data Revolution at Country Level, identifies opportunities and challenges for effectively applying and measuring a universal, country-relevant Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) framework.
Platforms and Applications
Resource Watch is an open, freely accessible, online global data system that unites technology, transparency, and human networks to drive sustainable management of the planet’s resources.
Principles and Standards
The aim of the Declaration is to enable the statistician's individual ethical judgments and decisions to be informed by shared values and experience, rather than by rigid rules imposed by the profession. The Declaration seeks to document widely held principles of the statistical profession and to identify the factors that obstruct their implementation. It offers a framework within which the conscientious statistician should be able to work comfortably.
Research, Methods and Good Practices
AidData and the Governance Data Alliance released a report, Governance Data: Who Uses it and Why?, that evaluates the use of governance data among policymakers and practitioners in 126 low- and middle- income countries.
Platforms and Applications
The Tanzania Socioeconomic Database is a comprehensive and up-to-date socioeconomic database system. Its main objective is to democratise access, use and dissemination of accurate data on a wide range of socioeconomic indicators in a user-friendly manner.
Research, Methods and Good Practices
Research, Methods and Good Practices
This paper presents a brief summary of Development Gateway (DG) activities and learning through its ongoing year-long program “Use of IATI in Country Systems.”
Research, Methods and Good Practices
Findings from the Results Data Initiative Sri Lanka country study on data collection, sharing, and use.
Data4SDGs Toolbox
The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) Germany has developed a prototype for SDG Monitoring at the national level, with a focus on SDG implementation in high-income countries and their responsibilities in this context. The tool includes three data visualisations.
Platforms and Applications
Esri invites you to take action on the SDGs. Go to their site, upload your information, and a description of your aims to contribute to the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Research, Methods and Good Practices
Findings from the Results Data Initiative Tanzania country study on data collection, sharing, and use.
Research, Methods and Good Practices
In an effort to help shed some light on those questions, the United Nations Global Pulse is pleased to share "Big Data for Development Primer” - a brief introductory guide to big data for the development community.
Research, Methods and Good Practices
Findings from the Results Data Initiative Ghana country study on data collection, sharing, and use.
Research, Methods and Good Practices
UN Global Pulse is pleased to publish ‘Mobile Phone Network Data for Development’, a primer on how analysis of Call Detail Records (CDRs) can provide valuable information for humanitarian and development purposes.
Platforms and Applications
Esri is proud to present The SDG Hub, an SDG Open Data Site where everyone can tell their stories, and engage and inspire their audiences by combining text, images, and other multimedia content with maps.
Platforms and Applications
Platforms and Applications
NASA's SEDAC, the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, offers a wide range of data relevant to sustainable development, including data and indicators on population, infrastructure, land use, poverty, natural resources, disaster risk, climate impacts and vulnerability, environmental pollution, and international environmental agreements. It also offers interactive visualization and query tools to support research, applications, and decision making, including innovative mapping clients and mobile applications.
Data4SDGs Toolbox
The Advanced Data Planning tool (ADAPT) from the Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) allows national statistical offices (NSOs) to identify data gaps and the necessary resources to fill those gaps. It reveals gaps in data coverage, reporting, financing and disaggregation.