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: UNDRR and UNESCAP in collaboration with other IAEG Core Group members UNECA, UNECE, UNECLAC, UNESCWA and UNSD

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

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