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16 February 2018, 19:55

Belarus develops roadmap to monitor progress in achieving SDGs

MINSK, 16 February (BelTA) – A roadmap to monitor progress in the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been prepared in Belarus, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Statistics Committee.

This is a strategic document with six major sections meant to work out cooperation mechanisms, prepare reports on achieving the SDGs, boost the potential, and distribute SDG-related statistics. The roadmap will soon become available on the Statistics Committee website.

On 1 January 2016, the committee joined the global statistical work to monitor Belarus' SGDs. In close cooperation with different bodies and agencies, the committee has formulated a national system of indicators to monitor SDG achievement. This list includes 255 indicators viewed as relevant for Belarus. As many as 131 out of them correspond to the global list of SDG indicators, another 94 indicators have been replaced or complemented with so-called proxy ones.

The data on SDG indicators will be provided by 26 government bodies and agencies, the Belarusian Statistics Committee being the key one. Their common task is to set the thresholds for Belarus' SDG indicators and develop new government programs, strategies and plans, update the existing programs taking into account global goals and indicators.

The Belarusian Statistics Committee is close to setting up a national platform to present reports on SDG achievement. This platform will become the key instrument to monitor and distribute the data about SDG indicators: collect data, store and protect information, and also distribute data and metadata. The national platform will become operational in late 2018.

The list of national SDG indicators is now available on the Statistics Committee website in Russian and English in a special section. The list is regularly updated. The metadata is developed by the UN Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators set up at the 46th session of the UN Statistical Commission. Since July 2017, Belarus has been representing Eastern Europe in the group together with Russia.

Every citizen can take part in the discussion of sustainable development-related matters and bring forward his or her proposals on the national SDG indicators on the Statistics Committee website.

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