Introduction: Factoids on SAARC

Poverty & Over Population

Health: Child Malnutrition & Maternal

Deaths

Illiteracy Rates

Poor Connectivity & Intra-Regional

Trade

Poverty & Demographic

Dividend

Health—Maternal and Child

Health

Literacy Rates

Connectivity & Intra-

Regional Trade

HDI Rankings Among SAARC Countries:

COUNTRY RANKING (187)

Afghanistan 169

Bangladesh 142

Bhutan 136

India 135

Maldives 103

Nepal 145

Pakistan 146

Sri Lanka 73

SAARC DEVELOPMENT GOALS

The “SAARC Development Goals is a comprehensive roadmap in line with

achieving the Millennium Development Goals 2015”

SAARC Development Goals. Achievements, Gaps

and Way Forward (SHRDC 2013)

SDG Highlights:

Priority Policy Statements

Poverty Eradication

Improvement in Income Levels

Provision for better & affordable Health Care

Improving maternal, child health & nutrition

Improvement in literacy & quality of

education

Improvement in standards of living

Environmental Sustainability

SDG Highlights:

Major Outcomes in 2013

Replacing RPP with SDR from 2014. Organise a ‘Symposium on Best Practices for Poverty Alleviation and SAARC Development Goals: Evidences on Improvements in Policy, Programme Designs and Implementation’ at the SAARC Secretariat. SAARC Inputs to post-2015 MDG agenda.

SDGs: Indicator Level Data Availability:

19/65 – No Data Available

29/65 – Partial Data Available

Data Availability: Livelihoods (1)

Data Availability: Livelihoods (1)

Data Availability: Livelihoods (1)

Data Availability: Livelihoods (1)

SDGs: Frequency of Data Availability:

Incorporation of SDGs in National Plans:

COUNTRY PLAN DOCUMENT

Afghanistan Afghanistan National

Development Strategy Plan

2008-13

Bangladesh 6th Five-Year Plan 2010-15

Bhutan 11th Five Year Plan 2013-18

India 12th Five Year Plan 2012-17

Maldives 7th National Plan 2005-10

Nepal National Plan 2013-18

Interim Plan 2008-10

Pakistan MTDF 2005-10

Annual Plan 2013-14

Sri Lanka 2nd Five-Year Development

Plan 2011-16

Challenges: Regional Level data largely missing—SAARCSTAT

Targets setting

Unavailability of Data

Definitional Issues

Broad Categories

Definitional changes over time

Definitional differences across countries

Issues of Comparability

Reconciliation of Quantitative & Qualitative

Indicators

Opportunities: Common culture, society, history—political will

Importance of SAARC as a regional economic bloc

Demand for data & information

Importance of knowledge sharing

Need for regional level tracking system to develop

SAARC as a region

Way Forward: Need to populate Data

Need to set Targets

Regional, National, Provincial levels

Need to develop common set of definitions for

indicators

Need to identify country-specific data sources

Means of availability

Means of verifiability

Develop SAARC regional level tracking system

Monitoring Plan

Evaluation Framework

Data Generation means