Last November, CSF technical advisor, Christopher Tongbram provided direct training on key DFA tools to the UNFPA Pacific Sub-Regional Office (PSRO) members at their office in Fiji.
UNFPA PSRO includes 14 countries and territories from the Pacific Region that are recovering economically post-pandemic with focus on activities such as tourism, fishing, and agriculture.
In 2016, UNICEF’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Bottleneck Analysis Tool (WASH BAT) was updated by CSF to become an online and user-friendly platform called WASH BAT 2.0. In an effort to reduce barriers to WASH project implementation, WASH BAT 2.0 has acted as a decision-making support system for 848 projects in over 80 countries to reduce bottlenecks in the WASH sector.
Reblog:UN SDSN TReNDSIn 2018, TReNDS launched a microgrant program through SDSN’s Local Data Action Solutions Initiative (LDA-SI).
During this calendar year, the program is supporting five sub-national SDG data and monitoring efforts.
From 27-31 May 2019, senior statisticians fromL'Institut national de la statistique (INSTAT),and statistical experts responsible for the national development plan participated in a week-long workshop in New Delhi, India.
While 1.4 million new HIV infections have been averted since 2010, the disease continues to persist. According to the Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director, in 2017 alone, 180,000 children became infected with the virus. [1] Children, along with society’s most vulnerable populations — “adolescent girls and young women, indigenous peoples, migrants, the poor and uneducated, and key populations at highest risk of HIV infection—are being left behind.” [2]
An estimated 617 million of children and adolescents of primary and lower secondary school age worldwide are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics, according to the2019 SDG Progress Report of the Secretary General. Of these students, “about two-thirds are attending school but are not learning in the classroom or drop out of school.”From 21-24 May 2019, delegates from across South Asia gathered for theSouth Asia Statistical Capacity Development Workshop on Developing SAARC SDG4 Monitoring Framework.
In today's world, data has become the lifeblood of decision-making and the raw material for accountability.
In 2022, DFA Visualizer was rolled out for the first time in Malawi with their National Planning Office (NPO).
Having previously relied on DevInfo for many years, the government faced gaps in their ability to easily disseminate key development data when the global initiative was discontinued several years ago.
