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: ESCAP and ECLAC
Overview
The simultaneous challenges with which the world is grappling Simultaneous global challenges (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 evaluating approaches to measure progress beyond GDP. This work effort 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 the knowledge will likely 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 and Purpose
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. Discussions from the side event will feed into deliberations under the “Beyond GDP” Sprint of agenda item 3(o) of the 53rd session of the United Nations Statistical Commission.
Agenda
Time (EST | time) | ACTIVITYTopic | PRESENTERSuggested Speaker | ||
21:00-21:05 (5 mins) | Introduction: Why do we need to go beyond GDP? and Agenda Setting: Overview of agenda | Rolando Ocampo, Director, Statistics Division, ECLAC and Rachael Beaven, Director, Statistics Division, ESCAP | |||
21:05 – 21:15 (10 mins) | Regional Perspectives: Executive Secretaries from ECLAC and ESCAP
| Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC Executive Secretary ESCAP Executive Secretary | |||
21:15 – 21:25 (10 mins) | Overview: Brief 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) | 21:15 – 21:25 (10 mins) | Regional Perspectives: Executive Secretaries from ECLAC and ESCAP Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC Executive Secretary and Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana ESCAP Executive Secretary., former OECD Chief Statistician, Member of the French Statistics Authority | |
21:25 - 21:45 (20 30 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. | 21:45 - 21:55 (10 mins) | Overcoming barriers: Different perspectives on why policy makers are using or not using broader measures of GDP | Claire Melamed (Executive Director GPSDDExperiences Moving Beyond GDP: Country Panel Bhutan (TBC) Costa Rica (TBC) Mexico Mark Turner, Senior Advisor – Indicators Aotearoa, Statistics New Zealand
| Anthony Dvarskas, Regional Advisor, ESCAP (moderator) |
21:55 - | 2212:10 ( | 10 15 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)with panel and audience | |
22:10 – 22:15 (5 mins) | Conclusion: Final remarks | from the Chair to sum up the discussions and to outline any next stepsOne of the two co-chairs – Rolando Ocampo or Rachael Beavenand summary | Rolando Ocampo, Director, Statistics Division, ECLAC |