Fourth Expert Meeting of the IAEG-SDGs: Working Group on Geospatial Information
United Nations Headquarters, New York- 6 - 8 December 2017
The Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals Indicator (IAEG-SDGs) Working Group on Geospatial Information met from 6 - 8 December 2017 in Conference Room 12, General Assembly Building, UN Headquarters, New York. There were a total of 30 participants comprising of 12 members, 14 invited experts and presenters, and four observers.
The working group had three days of in-depth discussions and deliberations that were substantively aided by a total of 29 presentations delivered by members of the Working Group, invited experts and invited presenters. This fourth meeting progressed the tasks before the Working Group on disaggregation and data availability, considered additional issues including liaising with and contributing to the work of custodian agencies, and capacity development for national statistical systems in geo-statistical processes.
The Working Group had observed that the disaggregation of national statistical data is considerably strengthened through the lens of geospatial information, and the meeting considered the issue of aggregation of geocoded unit level data alongside disaggregation. The meeting welcomed several country level presentations that demonstrated the inclusion of relevant and applicable international (global), new and complementary data in the production of certain indicators. The meeting agreed on task streams addressing aggregation and disaggregation, and "production ready" data for indicators. In these task streams, the Working Group will address issues related to liaising and working with custodian agencies, availability and usability of geospatial information, international (global), new and complementary datasets, case studies and exemplars, and capacity development.
Documentation for the Fourth Meeting
- Concept Note
- Provisional Annotated Agenda (as at 5 Dec 2017)
- Information Note
- List of participants
- Summary Report
Other Documents
- Global indicator framework for the Sustainable Development Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (A/RES/71/313)
- 6th IAEG-SDGs - Progress Report
- 6th IAEG-SDGs - Progress Report (pptx)
- WG's Initial Shortlist - Table A & B
- GA Building Layout
Presentation Materials
- Session 1 - Overview
- Addressing the data demands of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
- Mr. Greg Scott, UN Statistics Division
- Leveraging a federated information system to address the data demands of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
- Ms. Francesca Perucci, UN Statistics Division
- Mr. Luis Gonzalez Morales, UN Statistics Division
- Session 2 - Updates from recent events
- Sixth Meeting of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals Indicators (IAEG-SDGs), Manama, Bahrain
- Ms. Yongyi Min, UN Statistics Division
- UNECE/UN-GGIM: Europe Workshop on Integration of Geospatial and Statistical Standards
- Ms. Marie Haldorson, Statistics Sweden
- GEO/EO4SDG Meeting, Group on Earth Observations (GEO) 14th Plenary
- Mr. Lawrence Friedl (NASA & EO4SDG/GEO)
- Geospatial Information Activities under the UN Development Account 10th tranche
- Ms. Linda Hooper (UN Statistics Division)
- Session 3 - Disaggregation according to geographic location
- IAEG-SDGs activities on data disaggregation
- Mr. Benjamin Rae, UN Statistics Division
- WG's activities on disaggregation
- Mr. Tim Trainor, Census Bureau, United States of America & UN-GGIM: Americas
- National activities and perspectives on data disaggregation according to geographic location
- Mr. Jose Eduardo de la Torre Barcena, INEGI Mexico
- National activities and perspectives on data disaggregation according to geographic location
- Mr. Thapelo Maruatona, Statistics Botswana
- Implementing Global Statistical Geospatial Framework and its five adopted principles
- Ms. Marie Haldorson, Statistics Sweden
- Session 4 - Data availability
- WG's activities on international (global) datasets and other data and sources
- Mr. Chen Jun, NASG China & UN-GGIM: Asia Pacific
- Mr. Stephan Arnold, DESTATIS Germany
- Space agency's perspective and program to avail production ready (or analysis ready) datasets
- Mr. Chu Ishida, JAXA Japan
- National activities and perspectives using global and new, complementary data to produce indicators
- Mr. Carlos Alberto Duran Gil, DANE Colombia
- National activities and perspectives on finding relevant data to produce indicators
- Mr. Frederic Vey, Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition, France
- Providing production ready dataset that can be country owned
- Mr. Martin Herold, GOFC-GOLD, Netherlands
- Session 5 - Contributing to the work of the Custodian agencies
- Engaging custodian agencies - EO4SDGs' program and experience
- Ms. Argyro Kavvada, EO4SDGs
- EO/GI in SDGs: contributing to work of custodian agencies..some WHO perspectives
- Mr. Rifat Hossain, WHO
- Engaging custodian agencies
- Mr. Alfredo Fort, UNFPA
- Engaging custodian agencies
- Mr. Robert Ndugwa, UN-Habitat (represented)
- Engaging custodian agencies - A national perspective
- Ms. Marie Haldorson, Statistics Sweden
- Session 6 - Capacity Development
- UN-GGIM: Europe Work Group on Data Integration – facilitating the wider utilization of geospatial information for the production of indicators
- Mr. Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu, BKG, Germany & UN-GGIM: Europe
- GEO's SDGs capacity development initiative
- Mr. William Sonntag, GEO Secretariat
- National perspectives on capacity development needs
- Mr. Bernard Muhwezi, Ugandan Bureau of Statistics
- National perspectives on capacity development needs
- Mr. Claudio Stenner, IBGE, Brazil)
- 2020 Round of Census
- Mr. Tapiwa Jhamba, UNFPA
- Fourth Meeting of the UN Expert Group on Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information
- Ms. Marie Haldorson, Statistics Sweden
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