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