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The need for reliable, comparable and timely data for SDG 16

Six years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, several countries face challenges in monitoring indicators on governance, crime, violence, human trafficking, access to justice and rule of law.

Issues particularly relevant for Sustainable Development Goal, SDG 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels, but also for SDGs 1, 3, 5, 11 and 15.

The current COVID-19 pandemic highlights the value of measurement and monitoring: no strategy can be developed and no action can be implemented without adequate monitoring and evaluation.

Several Latin American countries have included SDG 16 in the national development framework, recognizing the importance of addressing peace, justice and inclusion as part of sustainable development.

However, reporting on progress on SDG 16 indicators has been a challenge globally and is still limited in the region. The insufficient availability and quality of statistical information on SDG 16 remains a direct obstacle to the ability to implement the 2030 Agenda, as it prevents countries from generating evidence-based and effective public policies to respond to justice, security and governance challenges

Objectives

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human

Rights (OHCHR) are organizing a series of training webinars focused on measuring progress on SDG 16 indicators in Latin America. The main objectives of this training are:

  • Strengthen the technical capacities of authorities and coordination between data producers and users to generate, analyse and disseminate SDG 16 indicators;
  • Strengthen the organizational framework and promote a "data community" among data producers and users for the exchange of experiences and challenges.

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Dates and times

The regional training will take place over seven consecutive weeks, from April 22nd to June 3rd 2021, every Thursday from 9:00 to 10:30am Mexico City, Panama, Lima, Bogotá | 10:00 to 11:30am Caracas, Santiago, Asunción | 11:00am to 12:30pm Buenos Aires, Montevideo.

Register

To register for the Regional Training for Measuring SDG16 In Latin America, please use our registration form.

More information

For questions about this webinar series, please contact: unodc-mexico.cde.estadistica@un.org

Programme and contents

Webinar 1: Opening and cross-cutting issues, April 22nd

This webinar will present cross-cutting methodological tools to measure SDG indicators in the area of violence, crime, access to justice, corruption, governance, trafficking, preventing conflict-related deaths, protecting fundamental freedoms, strengthening national institutions, promoting and enforcing non-discriminatory laws and policies. Participants will be introduced to the objectives, format, and certification of the regional training programme. Our guest speaker from ECLAC will present the advance in the monitoring of SDG16 indicators in the region.

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Webinar 2: Homicide and other forms of violence, April 29th

This webinar will focus on how to produce SDG indicators 16.1.1 on intentional homicide, 16.1.3 on victims of violence and 16.1.4 on feelings of safety. Both the production of national administrative data and crime victimization surveys will be discussed. Our guest speaker from Peru will present the challenges of measuring homicide, and from Colombia, the new findings from its annual victims survey.

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Webinar 3: Illicit trafficking and organized crime, May 6th

This webinar will focus on how to measure SDG indicators 16.2.2 on victims of trafficking, 16.4.1 on illicit financial flows and 16.4.2 on firearms trafficking. As invited countries, Panama will present the challenges in measuring trafficking in persons, Ecuador will share the policy implications of measuring illicit financial flows in the country, and Argentina will share its experience in measuring firearms trafficking. We will also have as a guest, the UNODC Global Program on Firearms.

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Webinar 4: Corruption and satisfaction with public services, May 13th

This webinar will focus on how to measure SDG 16.5.1 and 16.5.2 indicators on bribery where the methodology for conducting corruption surveys will be discussed. The SDG 16.6.2 indicator on satisfaction with public services and its tools to measure it will also be addressed. As guests, Mexico will tell us about its household and business surveys on corruption, UNODC about corruption and gender, and Uruguay about its Survey on Satisfaction on Public Services.

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Webinar 5: Access to civil and criminal justice, and strengthening the criminal justice system, including prisons, May 20th 

This webinar will discuss the production of SDG indicators 16.3.1, 16.3.2, 16.3.3. Participants will be familiarized with the tools need to measure aspects of access to civil and penal justice, strengthening the criminal justice system and prison population characteristics.

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Webinar 6: Responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative institutions, May 27th

This webinar will discuss the production of SDG indicators 16.7.1 & 16.7.1. Participants will be familiarized with the methodology and national experiences to measure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative institutions.

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Webinar 7: Human rights, strengthening national institutions, leaving no one behind and eliminating discrimination, June 3rd

This webinar will discuss the production of SDG indicators 16.1.2, 16.10.1, 16.10.2, 16.a.1 y 10.3.1/16.b.1. Participants will become familiar with the methodology to measure deaths related to conflicts, attacks against journalists and human rights defenders, public access to information, human rights institutions and discrimination. As invited countries, we will have Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and Colombia. Finally, we will close this training series with remarks from the 3 UN organizing agencies.

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