Development Asia—Racing to Reach the Millennium Development Goals by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Developing & Emerging Countries, Political Science, Public Policy, Social Services & Welfare
ISBN: 9789292574260
Google: Y4poDAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2009-12-01T03:56:51+00:00

Subnational Monitoring

Mr. Akasaka says the UN’s Statistics Division and the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG Indicators (IAEG), responsible for preparing data and analysis on MDG progress, have encouraged data disaggre-gation wherever relevant.

“The MDG framework indicates that ‘all indicators should be disaggregated by sex and urban-rural as far as possible,’” the Under-Secretary-General says.

Faiza Effendi, who heads the poverty reduction and gender unit at the UNDP in Pakistan, says the country does not adhere to MDG reporting guidelines because they encourage the provision of disaggregated data by region and gender.

“The issue is that many developing countries do not have data broken down by region. Even in Pakistan, it is only in the last 3 years that the government has offered some district-level information, but then it is only in a handful of sectors, and that information is not broken down by gender,” Ms. Effendi says.

“It’s important to bear in mind that despite reporting through aggregate data, the MDG indicators manage to highlight the development trends or results in a country, be it on female primary school enrollment, female mortality, or child mortality, etc.”

In countries the size of India or the People’s Republic of China, wide variations in socioeconomic indicators may exist between provinces and subnational groups

The official UN website for the MDG indicators (http://mdgs.un.org) presents some indicators for urban and rural populations, others by sex, to show subnational disparities.

“The UN’s Handbook on MDG Indicators is currently being updated by the IAEG and will include guidelines on relevant disaggregations for each indicator,” Mr. Akasaka says.

In addition, the UN’s Statistics Division has held two workshops in Asia and Africa on MDG monitoring. Representatives of national statistical offices were trained in the production of data for MDG subnational monitoring.

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