PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The third regional workshop on the Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM) Core Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs) Indicators started right here on Monday, with a senior CARICOM official underscoring the significance of making certain the supply of measurable knowledge essential to find out progress in direction of the achievement of the 2030 improvement agenda.
The four-day workshop, which the Trinidad and Tobago authorities is internet hosting in collaboration with the Central Statistical Workplace (CSO), permits delegates to debate issues pertinent to the sustainable improvement of the Caribbean.
The European Union helps the workshop via the eleventh European Improvement Fund (EDF).
In his tackle to the workshop, CARICOM Deputy Secretary Normal Dr. Armstrong Alexis recalled that in September 2015, the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDG) had been agreed to by world leaders, together with that within the Caribbean.
He mentioned the 17 SDGs, 169 targets, and 231 distinctive indicators had develop into the means to watch, measure, and report on sustainable improvement worldwide.
“ For our area, we’ve recognized 125 distinctive CARICOM Core SDG indicators that we are going to give attention to and guarantee knowledge is accessible for monitoring Caribbean progress utilizing the 2030 framework.
“We are actually on the midway stage of the 2030 Improvement Agenda, and the UN Secretary-Normal has reminded us that the world isn’t on monitor to realize the SDGs,” Alexis mentioned, noting that the current SDG summit held in September has knowledgeable the world that on the midpoint of Agenda 2030, the SDGs are in jeopardy as progress stalls amid the local weather disaster, financial fluctuations, conflicts, and pandemic aftermath.
“In our area, we’ve confronted unanticipated setbacks. Our plans to undertake family surveys and different data-gathering interventions haven’t materialized, and we’ve confronted vital delays within the conduct of the 2020 spherical of censuses”.
He mentioned whereas it’s acknowledged that knowledge availability have to be juxtaposed towards significant interventions to make sure nobody is left behind, “we should emphasize. “
Alexis mentioned that many CARICOM nations have submitted Voluntary Nationwide Studies (VNR), and thru this mechanism, gaps have been recognized and progress reported.
“As statisticians, your position is to make sure the supply of the information that informs reporting on progress, and in enterprise this accountability, you will be assured of the assist of the CARICOM Secretariat.
“Our Regional Statistics Programme has been a important cornerstone of the regional effort, and their undertakings have been pivotal in our capability as a Secretariat to replace member states and obtain approvals via the Council of Human and Social Improvement.:
Alexis mentioned that the Guyana-based Secretariat will proceed to supply this assist “for that dedication made in 2015 for a greater future for folks and planet should proceed to be our aim”.
He famous the plan to undertake a second evaluation to find out the form of assist member states want to supply the agreed-upon knowledge associated to the core SDG Indicators accepted by the Council for Human and Social Improvement (COHSOD) in 2018.
“Regardless of the immense challenges that we’ve confronted, one factor is certain: we can not relent, and it’s incumbent upon us to periodically assessment the place we’re and what else must be executed to make sure continued progress.
“Allow us to, due to this fact, use this chance of the subsequent few days to take inventory and recommit ourselves to the actions essential to make sure the achievement of the 2030 Improvement Agenda.”
He mentioned he was urging delegates to “have interaction in open and collaborative discussions over the subsequent 4 days, drawing upon our collective experience to deal with the challenges and seize the alternatives that lie forward.
“I’m due to this fact assured that the outcomes will contribute considerably to the development of sustainable improvement within the CARICOM area,” Alexis added.
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