The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (the Global Partnership) will hold a side event at the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). The Forum is the annual moment to review progress on the 2030 Agenda. It took place from July 11–20 with a three-day ministerial meeting on July 18–20, 2016, in New York.
The objectives of the side event are to:
- Accelerate momentum for keeping data on the political agenda internationally as well as at national and sub-national levels in pursuit of sustainable development for all.
- Highlight the Partnership’s progress in supporting the creation and implementation of national and sub-national roadmaps to harness the data revolution for sustainable development that leaves no one behind.
- Launch a toolbox to support country-led data roadmaps for sustainable development that leaves no one behind.
The Global Partnership serves as an invaluable convener, connector and catalyst, building trust and encouraging collaboration among stakeholders to fill critical data gaps and ensure data is accessible and usable to end extreme poverty, address climate change and pave a road to dignity for all by 2030. The Global Partnership is supporting national workshops around the world — including Colombia, Kenya, Philippines, Sierra Leone and Tanzania — that will create sustainable development data revolution roadmaps. At this HLPF side event, progress and lessons learned from these country-led processes were presented and discussed.
The Global Partnership also unveiled a toolbox for countries to support such roadmaps. This toolbox will assist countries in creating legal frameworks, defining national SDG indicators, setting SDG baselines and engaging stakeholders from the private sector, civil society and other communities in the #Data4SDGs movement.