DATA FOR SDG LOCALIZATION: THE INDIA STORYGENERATION, REVIEW & CHALLENGES

21 November 2019

Sanyukta Samaddar Adviser, NITI Aayog, Government of India

INDIA IS A LEADING VOICE FOR THE GLOBAL ACHIEVEMENT OF SDGs

271 million people moved out of poverty; Multidimensional poverty

halved between 2005/6 and 2015/16

7th largest economy and one of the fastest growing major economies

18% of the world’s population on 2.3% of the world’s land “India’s success in achieving the SDGs can change

the face of the world”.

Maria Espinosa, Former President, UN General

Assembly

“If world has to achieve SDGs, India must succeed”

Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO, Bill and Melinda

Gates Foundation

Achieving SDGs is strongly connected to the progress made by States/UTs in a federal polity;

hence localisation is of prime importance 2

• India’s geography, federal structure, and division of

powers call for localization

• Promotes healthy competition at sub-national level

COOPERATIVE

AND

COMPETITIVE

FEDERALISM

• No one size fits all – allows developing local solutions

• Facilitates peer learning – sub-national entities can

learn from each other and share good practices

LOCALISED

SOLUTIONS

• All levels of government get the opportunity to

improve their capacity

• For instance, state and district governments can

improve and widen their data collection systems

IMPROVED

STATE

CAPACITY

Calls for data

for SDG

monitoring at

MULTIPLE

LEVELS

NEED FOR SDG LOCALISATIONSDG localisation: The process of recognizing sub-national contexts in the achievement of the 2030 Agenda,

from the setting of goals and targets, to determining the means of implementation, and using indicators to

measure and monitor progress.

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STEPS IN SDG LOCALISATION IN STATES/ UTs1. Sensitization

Awareness generation of leadership and key departments, on need to drive at state level, with focus on SDG monitoring

8. Ranking of districts

Undertake periodic, preferably annual, ranking and review of districts on SDG performance

5. SDG Coordination Centre

Set up a centre within the nodal department to coordinate all SDG- related initiatives with focus on monitoring and review

4. Building partnerships

The State/ UT partners with UN for knowledge support, Ministry of Statistics for data support, and technical agency for dashboard

2. State and District Indicator Frameworks

Nodal department coordinates drafting of SIF and DIF in consultation with NITI Aayog

7. Review mechanisms

Set up SDG review mechanism at the Chief Secretary/ Chief

Minister, preferably bi-annually

6. Budgeting

Central and state levels – mapping done; need to identify the financial resource gap and arrive

at a multipronged strategy to bridge the gaps

3. Improve data ecosystem

The State/ UTs improves its data collection systems and widens the quantum of indicators captured including data points from private sector and CSOs

4DATA: A KEY COMPONENT OF SDG LOCALIZATION

CURRENT DATA SYSTEM: SOURCESHuman Development

Reports, Central, State

and District reports etc.

Reports of State and Central

Committees formed for social,

economic, and environmental

issues

Annual reports of various ministries

viz., energy, GWDB, NCRB, agriculture

production, DISE,UDISE, AISHE,

research publications of NITI Aayog

Government policies viz., agriculture

policy, tourism policy, water policy,

renewable energy policy, purchase

policy, industrial policy, textile policy,

e-governance policy, environment

policy etc.

Annual reports of various

departments including GPCB,

socio-economic reviews etc.

Profiles of villages, towns,

municipalities & municipal

corporations

Online data of Rural &

Urban Development

programmes, e-Taal, S &T

reports

Survey reports viz., Census, NSSO,

NFHS, Labour Bureau, AIES National

Health survey, SRS, Economic Survey,

Industrial Survey, Agricultural census,

Environmental Survey, Forest

statistics etc

SDG outcome

Indicators:

Source of

information

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CURRENT DATA SYSTEM: CHALLENGES

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Frequency of data

collection needs to

improve

More data points

must be captured

periodically

Divergence among

difference data

sources needs to be

fixed

Granularity of data

available must

improve

DATA CHALLENGES LEAVE TOO MANY BEHIND

Disaggregated data

should be available

Data quality must

improve

Data should be more

accessible

SOLUTIONS: FRAMEWORK

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WE NEED

New ways (mobile, tablet)

New levels (district, local)

New sectors (private,

citizen generated)

OF DATA COLLECTION

DATA IS THE NEW OIL OF 21ST CENTURY

VIEW ONLINE8

MONTHLY UPDATE OF PROGRESS

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TABLETS FOR

FASTER AND

EASIER DATA

COLLECTION

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TABLETS FOR EASIER AND FASTER DATA COLLECTION

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SDG

DASHBOARD

AT SUB-

NATIONAL

LEVEL

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SDG DASHBOARD AT SUB-NATIONAL LEVELhttp://5.189.157.11/sdg/

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MONITORING PROGRESS OF LOCALISATION: SDG INDIA INDEXFirst comprehensive measure of SDG performance and localisation with national and state/ UT ranking

https://sdgindiaindex.socialcops.com/

Goal-wise ranking of

states/ UTs and

overall ranking based

on performance on all

goals

Promotes competition

among the states/ UTs

Supports states/ UTs in

identifying priority

areas

Enable states/ UTs to

learn from peers

Highlights data gaps

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Front Runners

Chandigarh

Himachal Pradesh

Kerala

Puducherry

Tamil Nadu

Aspirants

Assam

Bihar

Uttar Pradesh

Performers

A & N Islands

Andhra Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh

Chhattisgarh

Dadra & Nagar Haveli

Daman & Diu

Goa

Gujarat

Haryana

Jammu & Kashmir

Jharkhand

Karnataka

Lakshadweep

Madhya Pradesh

Maharashtra

Manipur

Meghalaya

Mizoram

Nagaland

Odisha

Punjab

Rajasthan

Sikkim

Telangana

Tripura

Uttarakhand

West Bengal

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DASHBOARD: PERFORMANCE COMPARISON

ANDHRA PRADESH BIHAR

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ALTERNATE APPROACHES TO DATA

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WAY FORWARD

Actions to collect

datasets from private

sector on CSR and

core business

For any-time SDG

monitoring at State

and District levels

All 17 SDGs,

more targets

and indicators

Data collection on a

wider set of

indicators; more

frequent data update

Success stories of

localization

experience to be

presented at UN HQ

Training on modern

data collection tools-

tablets, mobile

phones

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Capacity

building

5

Improve

statistical

systems

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Dashboard

1

VNR in

2020

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SDG India

Index 2.0

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Data from

private

sector

WHAT GETS MEASURED GETS DONE

STRENGTHENED

SDG DATA AND

LOCALIZATION

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THANK YOU

“Sustainable development of one-sixth of humanity will be of great consequence to the world and our beautiful planet. It will be a world of fewer challenges and greater hope; and, more confident of its success.”

“The UN Sustainable Development Goals put us on the path of equality, equity and climate justice. While we are doing everything that is required of us, we expect that others also join in to fulfil their commitments.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

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