The 2021 session of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Forum on Financing for Development Follow-up, also known as the FfD Forum, is scheduled to convene from 12-15 April 2021. The outcome document will be negotiated under the leadership of the Permanent Representatives of Fiji and the Netherlands. The 2020 Forum...

Following the recommendation of the 128th Session of the Programme Committee, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is pleased to invite you to the virtual Information Seminar “Latest Developments on SDG indicators and the Plan to Improve the Governance of FAO Data and Statistics”, which will...

The Office of the Chief Statistician (OCS) organized a series of meetings with the FAO Regional Offices to discuss the resources available to support decentralized offices in accelerating FAO monitoring of SDGs and to present the SDG Statistics Toolkit.  The meetings provided an opportunity to discuss resources which can be used...

The overall objective of these virtual trainings were to provide (government officials responsible for monitoring SDG indicator 2.4.1) capacity development on the methodology, data collection and analysis relevant to sustainable food and agriculture and how to assess data gaps starting from available national and subnational (farm-level) information and associated reporting...

Offered by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the free MOOC "Understanding data and statistics better – for more effective SDG decision making" aims to offer a double opportunity: i) to help improve the...