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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 America and the Caribbean 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 and the Caribbean. 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.

Agenda | Polling results | Recording

Presentations:

• Introduction to measuring SDG 16 in Latin America – Mr. Enrico Bisogno, Chief, Data Development and Dissemination Section, UNODC
• UNODC methodological tools and data collection for SDG 16 - Ms. Fatma Usheva, Data Development and Dissemination Section, UNODC
• UNDP methodological tools and data collection for SDG 16 - Ms. Mariana Neves, Governance Statistics Specialist, Oslo Governance Center, UNDP
• OHCHR methodological tools and data collection for SDG 16 - Ms. Grace Steffan, Coordinator, Human Rights Indicators and Data Unit, OHCHR
• SDG Gateway: 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean - Mr. Rolando Ocampo, Chief, Statistics Division, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Relevant tools

• International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS) 
• UNODC-UNECE Manual on Victimization Surveys
• United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS) 
• UNODC Tools and Publications

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.

Agenda | Polling results | Recording

Presentations:

• Measuring SDG 16.1.1 Intentional homicide – Salomé Flores, Coordinator, UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence.
• Challenges to improve the measurement of intentional homicide - Mr. Aníbal Sánchez, Deputy Chief, National Institute of Statistics and Informatics INEI, Peru.
• Measuring SDG 16.1.3 & 16.1.4 Victimization and perception of safety - Ms. Luisa Sánchez-Iriarte, Crime and Criminal Justice Researcher, UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence.
• SDG indicators on violence and victimization through population surveys  - Mr. Horacio Coral, Director of Methodology and Statistical Production, National Administrative Department of Statistics DANE, Colombia.

Relevant tools:

• UNODC tools and publications relevant to violence and safety

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.

Agenda | Polling results | Recording

Presentations: :

• Measuring SDG Indicator 16.2.2 Trafficking in Persons (TiP) – Ms. Giulia Serio, Expert, UNODC.
• Challenges in measuring TiP  - Ms. Dayra Campos, National Commission against Human Trafficking, Ministry of Security, Panama.
• Measuring SDG Indicator 16.4.1 Illicit Financial Flows: Preliminary results from pilot studies in Latin America  - Mr. David Ravaux, Expert, Data Development and Dissemination Section, UNODC.
• Policy implications of measuring SDG Indicator 16.4.1   - Mr. Esteban Jima González, Prevention Specialist in TiP and Migrant Smuggling, Ministry of Interior, Ecuador.
• Measuring SDG Indicator 16.4.2 Illicit trafficking of firearms  - Ms. Giada Greco, Crime Statistics Technician, UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence.
• Best practices in measuring firearms trafficking  - Mr. Ramiro Urristi, Executive Director of the National Agency for Controlled Materials, Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Argentina.
• Data on firearms for public policy  - Ms. Simonetta Grassi, Chief of the Global Programme on Firearms, UNODC.

Relevant tools:

• UNODC tools and publications relevant to illicit trafficking and organized crime

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.

Agenda | Polling resultsa | Recording

Presentations:

• Measuring SDG Indicators 16.5.1 & 16.5.2: Bribery: Public Officials and Businesses – Mr. Roberto Murguía-Huerta, Proyect Specialist, UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence.
• Measuring corruption in households and busines  - Mr. Mario Santillana, Deputy Director General of National Surveys of Government, Public Security and Justice, National Institute of Statistics and Geography INEGI, Mexico.
• Gender and corruption: challenges for its measurement  - Ms. Jennifer Sarvary Bradford, Corruption and Economic Branch, UNOD.
• Measuring SDG Indicator 16.6.2: Satisfaction with public services - Ms. Mariana Neves, Governance Statistics Specialist, Oslo Governance Center, UNDP.
• Experience of measuring the satisfaction of public services through surveys  - Mr. Juan Berton, Consultant in applied social research, Agency for Electronic Government and the Information and Knowledge Society AGESIC, Uruguay.

Relevant tools:

• UNODC tools and publications relevant to corruption

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.

Agenda | Polling results | Recording

Presentations:

• Measuring SDG Indicator 16.3.1: Access to justice – Ms. Luisa Sánchez-Iriarte, UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence.
• Crime Victimization Survey and the dark figure of crime – Mr. José Antonio Gallegos Urenda, Director of Government Information Models, National Institute of Statistics and Geography INEGI, Mexico.
• Using data from Crime Victimization Survey for public policies – Mr. Brian Gregory, Acting Senior Director, Monitoring Evaluation and Data Analytics Branch, Ministry of National Security, Jamaica.
• Measuring SDG Indicator 16.3.3: Dispute resolution mechanisms – Ms. Mariana Neves, Governance Statistics Specialist, UNDP Oslo Governance Centre.
• Measuring access to dispute resolution mechanisms – Ms. Nora Luzi, Coordinator, Democratic Governance, UNDP Argentina; Ms. Karina Carpintero, Programme analyst, Democratic Governance, UNDP Argentina.
• Measuring SDG Indicator 16.3.2: Unsentenced detainees – Mr. Maurice Dunaiski, Junior Professional Officer, Data Development and Dissemination Section, UNODC.

Relevant tools:

• UNODC tools and publications relevant

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.

Agenda | Polling results | Recording

Presentations:

• Measuring SDG indicators 16.7.1b and 16.7.1c: Participatory and representative decision-making in the public service – Ms. Mariana Neves, Governance Statistics Specialist, Oslo Governance Center, UNDP
• Measuring participation and representation in public service (16.7.1b) – Ms. María del Mar Pérez, Head of Monitoring and Evaluation, Democratic Governance Unit, UNDP, Dominican Republic
• Measuring participation and representation in the judiciary - Judicial Census (16.7.1c) – Ms. Ana Lúcia Aguiar, Assistant Judge of the Presidency and Coordinator of the Department of Judicial Research, National Council of Justice, Brazil
• Measuring the SDG 16.7.2 indicator: Inclusive and responsive decision-making – Ms. Aparna Basnyat, Senior Policy and Research Advisor, Oslo Governance Center, UNDP ·
• SDG 16 Pilot Survey in El Salvador and measuring inclusive and responsive decision-making (16.7.2) – Mr. Víctor Tablas, Data analyst, UNDP-InfoSegura, El Salvador

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.

Agenda | Polling results | Recording

Presentations:

• Measuring SDG indicator 16.a.1: Independent national human rights institutions – Ms. Sisi Shahidzadeh, Section for National Institutions and Regional Mechanisms, OHCHR.
• Measuring SDG indicators 10.3.1 / 16.b.1: Discrimination – Mr. Nilton Marcelo Quiñones Huayna, Office of the Resident Coordinator, OHCHR Peru.
• Guest country: ECUADOR – Mr. Harold Burbano, General Protection Coordinator, Office of the Ombudsman.
• Guest country: PERÚ – Mr. Aníbal Sánchez, Deputy Chief, National Institute of Statistics and Informatics INEI.
• Measuring SDG indicator 16.1.2: Conflict-related deaths – Ms. Grace Sanico Steffan, Coordinator of the Human Rights Data and Indicators Unit, Methodology, Education and Training Section, OHCHR.
• Measuring SDG indicator 16.10.1: Murder, kidnapping, forced disappearance, arbitrary detention and torture of human rights defenders – Mr. Marc Titus Cebreros, Human Rights Data and Indicators Unit, Methodology, Education and Training Section, OHCHR.
• Measuring SDG indicator 16.10.1: Murder, kidnapping, forced disappearance, arbitrary detention and torture of journalists – Mr. Guilherme Canela, Head of Section, Freedom of expression and security of journalists, UNESCO
• Measuring SDG indicator 16.10.2: Number of countries that adopt and apply constitutional, legal or regulatory guarantees for public access to information – Mr. Jaco Du Toit, Head of the Universal Access to Information Section, Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO.
• Guest country: MÉXICO – Mr. Oscar Mauricio Guerra Ford, National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI), Mexico and Representative of the Transparency and Access to Information Network.
• Guest country: COLOMBIA – Mr. Victor Andrés Arévalo Cabra, University Professional of the Group of SDG Indicators, National Administrative Department of Statistics DANE.
• Final remarks of the Regional Training to Measure SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.