Representatives of the international community met in Addis Ababa (12-16 July 2015) for the Third Financing for Development Conference. This meeting is a pivotal moment for the post-2015 agenda and the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development.
11/07/2016 – 15/07/2016, Toronto, Canada
The World Congress in Probability and Statistics, hosted by the Fields Institute, is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Previous congresses have been held in Istanbul, Singapore, Barcelona, Guanajuanto, Vienna, Chapel Hill, Uppsala, and Tashkent…more
11/07/2016 – 20/07/2016, New York, USA
The High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) is the central United Nations platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015. HLPF 2016 will be the first HLPF after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The forum is expected to start effectively delivering on its mandates to provide political leadership, guidance and recommendations on the Agenda’s implementation and follow-up; keep track of progress; spur coherent policies informed by evidence, science and country experiences; as well as address new and emerging issues, and provide a platform for partnerships…more
10/07/2016 – 18/07/2016, Kigali, Rwanda
Hosted by the African Union, the 27th African Union Summit is scheduled to take place in from the 10th to the 18th of July in 2016, in Kigali, Rwanda. The theme of this Summit is: “2016: African Year of Human Rights with particular focus on the Rights of Women”…more
08/07/2016, New York, USA
Hosted by the United Nations Foundation, this half-day dialogue will focus on the challenges and opportunities related to data for the SDGs. We will launch the summary report of the Post-2015 Data Test, a research project undertaken to assess the availability and quality of data to measure progress against the Sustainable Development Goals in Bangladesh, Canada, Peru, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Turkey. The project was undertaken jointly by Southern Voice and the Norman Patterson School for International Affairs. The dialogue will use the project findings as a jumping off point for discussion around topics such as the political economy of the data revolution, and opportunities to invest in data. The event will bring leading think tank researchers from each of the case countries to share their findings and recommendations, and inform a discussion among UN mission, international organization, academic and civil society representatives in New York.
As the international community prepares for the UN General Assembly where the Sustainable Development Goals will be officially adopted, there have been several important efforts to build the momentum of…