Research, Methods and Good Practices
Training and Capacity Building
Case Studies
Principles and Standards | Research, Methods and Good Practices
Case Studies
Case Studies
Data Roadmaps
Interoperability
Case Studies
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.
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?
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.
Data Roadmaps
Data4SDGs Toolbox
This Data4SDGs Toolbox module is based on the experiences and lessons learned from the Open Institute’s Global Goals for Local Impact project and seeks to inform data challenges and opportunities at both the national and subnational level.
Data4SDGs Toolbox
This Data4SDGs Toolbox module provides a brief compendium of resources for national bureaus of statistics, national mapping agencies, line ministries and non-government partners to foster the growth of participatory mapping in their countries and develop national roadmaps.
Data4SDGs Toolbox
This Data4SDGs Toolbox module provides stakeholders with open data core principles and essential resources needed to prioritize, open and use key datasets relevant to achieving and monitoring the SDGs.
Data4SDGs Toolbox
The objective of this Data4SDGs Toolbox module is to describe an approach for leveraging mobile data to address social goals and questions in support of the SDGs.
Data4SDGs Toolbox
The Questionnaire from the Minimum Essential Data Package is a tool intended to help national data teams to evaluate their preparedness for SDG monitoring, and to subsequently draft a Data Roadmap for Sustainable Development.
Data4SDGs Toolbox
The Common Data Template from the Minimum Essential Data Package is a tool to help local country teams assess data gaps and construct data baselines.
Data4SDGs Toolbox
The Essential Minimum Package can be adapted by a country’s national data team (NSOs and a broad community of national data actors) to a realistic set of goals that the country aims to achieve by 2030, according to its own circumstances (current data availability, resources available, and other enabling environment conditions).
Data4SDGs Toolbox
The Minimum Essential Data Package summarizes work completed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) to support the development of the Data4SDGs Toolbox module.
Data4SDGs Toolbox
Data4SDGs Toolbox
Earth observations can track global change in high resolution and in real time, and their use in SDG monitoring and decision-making is essential in capturing the sustainability of developments underpinning the SDG framework. This Data4SDGs Toolbox module explores how Earth observations can be used for action and data-driven decision-making across government, and to support targeted development programmes.
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.
Platforms and Applications
This digital platform hosts maps of the 'villas' in Argentina, and it allows citizens to report cases of public-service gaps, such as in street lighting, sanitation, and paving.
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
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.
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.”
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
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
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.