The UN’s High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development met to review implementation of the Cape Town Global Action Plan for sustainable development data. A new framework for the Global Action Plan will be reviewed during the 54th session of the UN Statistical Commission in March 2022. The HLG also discussed the Bern Data Compact for the Decade of Action on the SDGs.
The third UN World Data Forum, held from 3-6 October in Bern, Switzerland, resulted in the Bern Data Compact for the Decade of Action on the SDGs. The Bern Compact calls for commitments in five areas: develop data capacity, establish data partnerships, produce data to leave no one behind, understand the world with data, and build trust in data. In the Compact, participants recognize the need for “fit-for-purpose” data to achieve the 2030 Agenda, with each data ecosystem stakeholder playing their part to achieve the common goal of “a world with data we trust .
Opinion: However, amid these global events, infinitesimally close virtually, and infinitely distant physically, the onslaught on national statisticians continues unabated.
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