Webinar - 17 February 2022, 21:00-22:30 EST/ 18 February 2022, 03:00-04:30 CET / 18 February 2022, 09:00-10:30 ICT
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Organizers: UNESCAP and UNECLAC
One of the foundations of risk-informed sustainable development is an evidence-based approach to policy and investment decisions to reach the most vulnerable. Policy makers mostly rely on official statistics, compiled and analysed with empirical rigour in all areas of governance, including disaster risk reduction. Disaster-related statistics provide the required level of quality and standard in data usage, enabling comparison across space and time, and inter-operability between data platforms.
Disaster-related Statistics have gained a strong interest from the national statistical systems for more than a decade now. The Disaster-Related Statistics Framework supported by ESCAP, Task Force on Measuring Hazardous Events and Disasters by ECE and the Latin American and Caribbean Disaster Risk Reduction Statistics Working Group by ECLAC demonstrate the strengthening of this field in statistics.
The adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 brought for the first time a monitoring framework including seven global targets and 38 indicators for monitoring of the targets. While endorsing these recommendations, the UN General Assembly recommended developing standards for disaster-related data and statistics including with engagement of national disaster risk reduction offices and national statistical offices. Building on existing work in this emerging area, the Statistical Commission at its 50th session established a mechanism to develop a common framework on disaster-related statistics. An inter-agency and expert group (IAEG) was established, terms of reference of which was approved by the Bureau of the UN Statistical Commission in 2020.
The structure of the common statistical framework on disaster-related statistics is currently under development. Moreover, the UNECE Task Force on Measuring Hazardous Events and Disasters and the IAEG organized the First Expert Forum on disaster-related statistics in June 2021. The second Expert Forum is being hosted by UNESCWA in May 2022.
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Against this backdrop, this side event will be organized with the following objectives:
- Bring together the statistical and the disaster risk reduction communities to exchange their views on disaster-related statistics
- Share progress in development of the common framework on disaster-related statistics
- Share good practices in disaster-related statistics from the national level
- Provide a status of the reporting on international agreements through SDG and Sendai Framework monitorin
Overview
The simultaneous challenges with which the world is grappling (COVID-19, the climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, extreme inequalities, shifting globalization dynamics, financial volatility and vulnerability, rapid digital transformation and the digital and data divides – to name a few) have ignited a broad rethinking of business-as-usual practices in evaluating the wellbeing of people and planet. In this context, the United Nations is looking at how we can measuring progress beyond GDP. This work will feed into follow-up processes to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development[1] and the proposed Summit of the Future to be held in conjunction with the high-level week of the seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly in 2023. Additionally, such a contribution could support ongoing related processes, in particular the multi-year update of the System of National Accounts by the Statistical Commission, to be completed by 2025.
Scope
This side event will showcase work already underway within the statistical community on Measuring Progress Beyond GDP as well as exploring how to overcome barriers to using these types of data for decision making.
Agenda
TIME (EST time) | ACTIVITY | PRESENTER |
9:00-9:05 (5 mins) | Introduction: Why do we need to go beyond GDP? and Agenda Setting: Overview of agenda | Rolando Ocampo, Director, Statistics Division, UNECLAC and Rachael Beaven, Director, Statistics Division, UNESCAP |
9:05 – 9:15 (10 mins) | Overview: Brief overview of work done by OECD and their framework with three spheres: · Production-economic performance at aggregate level · Well-being -the economic and non-economic outcomes that matter most to people · Sustainability –the capacity to generate well-being outcomes over time | Martine Durand (ex-OECD) |
9:15 – 9:25 (10 mins) | Regional Perspectives: Executive Secretaries from ECLAC and ESCAP | Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC Executive Secretary and Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana ESCAP Executive Secretary. |
9:25-9:45 (20 mins) | Country case studies: One country case study from each region: Eg. Palau on Ocean Accounts and Mexico Will also make this session interactive: Use Teams Chat function and Polling Function to find out what other countries are doing for each of the three areas. | |
9:45 – 9:55 (10 mins) | Overcoming barriers: Different perspectives on why policy makers are using or not using broader measures of GDP | Claire Melamed (Executive Director GPSDD) |
9:55 - 10:10 (10 mins) | Discussion session: Opportunity for questions and answers to the speakers. If there are not enough questions will use Teams Chat and Polling functions to get different views. | Claire Melamed (Executive Director GPSDD) |
10:10 – 10:15 (5 mins) | Conclusion: Final remarks from the Chair to sum up the discussions and to outline any next steps | One of the two co-chairs – Rolando Ocampo or Rachael Beaven |
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