For the 2018-2019 LDA-SI microgrant program, the City of Los Angeles is partnering with local academic institutions to strategically incorporate the SDGs into its plans, projects, partnerships, and budgets
Read MoreAt Data Day 2018, TReNDS shed light on the gap between local and national SDG monitoring efforts.
Read MoreTReNDS and GPSDD launch a series of case studies on the return on data investments.
Read MoreAs the 73rd UN General Assembly kicks off in New York, Jonathan Glennie reflects on how making data central to its mission would make the UN more relevant than ever.
Read MoreMovimento Nossa BH, 2018-2019 LDA-SI grantee and civil society organization supporting the Belo Horizonte metropolitan region, is piloting the collection and analysis of data for metropolitan planning.
Read MoreMuch like the Local Data Action Solutions Initiative does at a global scale, the OpenCities Institute is embedding know-how, tools, and capacity for the use of city-level data by sub-national governments in India, with the goal of facilitating evidence-based solutions for the SDGs.
Read MoreIn Colombia, 2018-2019 LDA-SI grantee Red de Ciudades Cómo Vamos is developing a tool to compare SDG achievement across 36 municipalities.
Read MoreFor the 2018-2019 LDA-SI microgrant program, Wolfs Company is building on its work to take stock of Aruba’s land and marine socioeconomic and ecological factors.
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 MoreLDA-SI has launched a micro-grant initiative aiming to seed and support local data innovations in these four areas, and to promote the dissemination of lessons from these experiences to inform sub-national SDG data efforts worldwide.
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 MoreDuring 2018, LDA-SI will provide a limited number of micro grants as part of its objective to promote sound, replicable technical methods for sub-national SDG monitoring that facilitate local action in support of the “leave no one behind” principle (LNOB).
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 MoreStanford University’s Sustainable Urban Systems Initiative worked with SDSN and a variety of local stakeholders in the California Bay Area, including the City of San José and the City and County of San Francisco, to develop a local reporting platform, a data dashboard, and a marketplace of decision-making tools that could support and inform SDG achievement efforts.
Read MoreTom Moultrie reflects on a core guiding principle of the SDG framework–that “no one should be left behind”.
Read MoreSDSN is proud to participate in the launch of the inaugural Global Report of the SDG16 Data Initiative to assess progress toward realizing the 2030 Agenda’s commitment to peaceful, just, and inclusive societies. The 2017 Global Report is intended to provide governments, UN officials, and civil society stakeholders with a resource for tracking progress on SDG16 targets, and provide an evidence base to help policymakers identify shortcomings in both implementing and monitoring SDG16.
Read MoreThe Thematic Network on Data for Sustainable Development is pleased to congratulate the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data on its newly named Board of Directors and Technical Advisory Group. UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed, a member of SDSN’s Leadership Council, will serve as the Honorary Chair of the Board.
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