The POPGRID collaborative, managed by TReNDS, CIESIN, and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, played host to representatives from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Philippines, and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) at a UN Statistical Commission side event. Read a recap here.
Read MoreTReNDS Director Jessica Espey reflects on the Bern High-level Dialogue on Funding for Data for Sustainable Development and calls for articulating clear, compelling goals on data for development.
Read MoreData are the new currency of the glamorous World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. TReNDS Director Jessica Espey reflects on this and other revelations from the 2019 event.
Read MoreAt the close of 2018, we look back at successes from the past year and ahead to the adventures of 2019.
Read MoreA recap of TReNDS’ activities at the UN World Data Forum 2018 and its own biannual meeting.
Read MoreLocal Data Action grantee project SDG in Action hosted a workshop in Belo Horizonte, Brazil on October 8.
Read MoreAt Data Day 2018, TReNDS shed light on the gap between local and national SDG monitoring efforts.
Read MoreAt the 2018 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, the UN and its extended community hosted discussions on global progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A question loomed large above the chatter: How can we accurately determine what progress we’ve made when so many challenges remain in gathering and using data for measurement of the SDGs?
Read MoreA report from the March 2018 Data for Development Festival, which brought together more than 300 participants from around the world to exchange new ideas to harness the data revolution for sustainable development.
Read MoreOn January 26, SDSN and the Global Development Incubator (GDI) convened a high-level side event at the Winter Meeting of the US Conference of Mayors (USCM), in partnership with the City of New Orleans and Mayor Dyer of Orlando.
Read MoreSDSN TReNDS and the Inter-American Development Bank hosted a high-level roundtable discussion of TReNDS’ new report on modern statistical systems, Counting on the World, on October 25th in Washington, DC. Learn more about the event here.
Read MoreSDSN Senior Advisor Jessica Espey gave a keynote lecture to students from the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) on Thursday 26th October 2017. Her lecture focused on the creation, implementation, and monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Read MoreTo mark the launch of Counting on the World, the new report from SDSN’s Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics (SDSN TReNDS), students and experts came together for a three-part Learning Session on Data for Development at the Columbia School of Journalism.
Read MoreSDSN’s expert thematic network on data and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data gathered world leading experts, government representatives, and practitioners to discuss the challenges of establishing multi-stakeholder partnerships to produce data for sustainable development.
Read MoreSDSN’s Data Thematic Network convened for their bi-annual face-to-face meeting on March 13th and 14th, 2016 at the SDSN secretariat in New York. The meeting was attended by 18 participants representing academia, multi-lateral agencies, private sector and non-profits from across the world.
Read MoreOn April 17, 2015, SDSN, The World Bank, and UN Foundation will host a high-level side event during the World Bank & IMF Spring Meetings, entitled “The Data Revolution for Sustainable Development.”
Read MoreOn October 15, 2014, the SDSN in partnership with the UN Statistics Division, the World Bank, Paris21, the Center for Global Development, Simon Fraser University, and the Gates Foundation, convened a meeting on a needs assessment for SDG monitoring and statistical capacity development.
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