Monitoring and reporting SDG indicators in Arab countries is paramount to the development, implementation and monitoring of policies that leave no one behind. There remain great challenges such as limited data availability, timely dissemination of data and accessibility to data disaggregation especially those from administrative records and data flow to...

International Women's Day is celebrated annually on 8 March. It offers an opportunity to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities.  Find out more at: https://www.un.org/en/observances/womens-day...

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....