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Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHAFederal Statistical Office FSO
CES Seminar 2015: The Response by official statistics to the Sustainable Development Goals
Georges-Simon Ulrich, General Director of FSO
CES 2015, Geneva, 15th June 2015
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Main messages from the CES 2013 Seminar on “Measuring sustainable development in
follow up to Rio+20”
Building up SDGs that should be measured requires a dialogue between statisticians and stakeholders and a sound conceptual framework.
Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHAFederal Statistical Office FSO
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Timetable of the Seminar
09:50 Introduction to the Seminar
09:55 – 10:25 Keynote speech by Mr. Carlo Sommaruga, member of the Swiss Parliament
10:25 – 12:30 Session 1 (France)
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 16:30 Session 2 (Sweden)
16:30 - 17:00 Conclusion of the Seminar
17:30 End of the Seminar
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CES Seminar 2015
Session 1: Monitoring SDGs at national level (Organised by France)
Session 2: Cooperation in monitoring SDGs at regional and global level(Organised by Sweden)
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Keynote
Keynote speech by Mr. Carlo Sommaruga, parliament member of the Swiss National Council and president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council.
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Main messages of the Seminar
1. Role of NSOs: more than collecting data and checking their quality
2. Conceptual framework: more than a list of indicators
3. Headline indicators: the Swiss Army Knife Syndrome
4. Capacity building: for all countries
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• Coordinator of the national statistical system involving public sector – private sector – academia – civil society
1. Role of NSOs: more than collecting data and checking their quality
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• Provide methodological support
• Advise in the interpretation of data and trends
1. Role of NSOs: more than collecting data and checking their quality
Source: Getting messages accross using indicators. Eurostat, 2014
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• Leadership in the communication of data and indicators
1. Role of NSOs: more than collecting data and checking their quality
Source: www.cbs.nl (updated on 3th of June 2015)
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From the data to the indicator system
Sources: Van Gogh: www.kunstbilder-galerie.de; Klee: Wehrli, Ursus 2002: Kunst aufräumen. Verlag Kein & Aber, Königstein im Taurus
The “real” world Indicator system Statistical data
2. Conceptual framework: more than a list of indicators
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• Sound basement• Systemic structure• Bridge between stakeholders and NSOs
2. Conceptual framework: more than a list of indicators
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3. Headline indicators: the Swiss Army Knife Syndrome
• Essential for policy makers
• Communication• A framework helps
to define headline indicators
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• Disaggregation• Modelling• Role of NSOs• “Big data”
4. Capacity building: for all countries
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• Between countries• In the countries• Between NSOs and Stakeholders and Users
4. Capacity building: for all countries
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Outcomes and main conclusions
I. Adopt the DeclarationRole of NSOs (Message #1)
II. Create a Taskforce on “Adapting the CES-Framework to the SDGs”Framework and Headline Indicators (Messages
#2 and 3)
III. Regional road map to contribute to a new global action plan for statistics
Capacity building (Messages #4)
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