SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 11

During the 47th United Nations Statistical Commission that was held in New York, the new SDGs indicators framework was agreed upon as an initial starting point. This followed on from the September 2015 adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by member states where they agreed to a proposed global indicator framework for monitoring progress against the SDGs. The framework, put forward by the Inter-Agency Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDG), includes 231 indicators that correspond to the 17 SDGs and their 169 associated targets. The report of the commission which included the global indicator framework was then taken note of by the ECOSOC at its 70th session in June 2016.

How did this global indicator framework come about?

The IAEG-SDG was formed in March 2015 by the UN Statistical Commission and is composed of a group of national statistical organizations and regional and international agency observers. The team spent the bulk of 2015 preparing the SDGs indicator framework. A series of meetings were convened (New York, Bangkok, Mexico and Geneva) in which members of the IAEG-SDG reviewed various compilations of indicator proposals. Throughout the process, representatives from civil society, academia and the private sector were invited to provide inputs into the indicator development process.

Source:
https://smartnet.niua.org/sites/default/files/resources/sdg_goal_11_monitoring_framework.pdf