The 53rd UN Statistical Commission will take place virtually from 28 February-4 March 2022. The annual Commission provides an opportunity for FAO to inform the wider statistical community of the progress it has made over the past year and what lies ahead. FAO’s statistical work and role to monitor the Sustainable...

This UNSC side event will present learnings from some of the first country engagements under the 50x2030 Initiative, which aims at supporting 50 low and lower-middle-income countries to fill gaps in the availability of agricultural and rural data through the use of novel integrated agricultural and rural surveys. Specifically, the meeting will look at data generation for...

We are in “The Decade of Action” which demands quality and timely data to monitor the progress towards theSDGs to help decision makers understand where policy interventions should take place and where investmentscan have the greatest impact. This also implies the need to improve and accelerate the production of SDGindicators....

More than six years in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and despite improvements, big data gaps still exist in all areas of the SDGs in terms of geographic coverage, timeliness and the level of disaggregation required. Intensified efforts need to be made to fill those gaps. The Agenda asks...

The UN Economic and Social Council's (ECOSOC) 2022 Partnership Forum will take place in February 2022.  The yearly ECOSOC Partnership Forum discusses ways to define and promote effective partnerships and how partnerships can best advance the sustainable development agenda and the 17 SDGs. Find out more at: https://sdg.iisd.org/events/ecosoc-partnership-forum-2022/