Opening webinar featuring (top left to right) Matthew Harris-Williams, Researcher, CoE; Rikke Munk Hansen, Chief of Service, Statistics UNESCAP; Shahbaz Khan, Director, UNESCO Cluster Office, Beijing (bottom left to right) Arvinn Gadgil, Director UNDP OGC, Ryszard Komenda, Regional Representative, Central Asia, UNOHCHR; Enrico Bisogno, Chief, Data Development and Dissemination Section, UNODC.
Daejeon (Republic of Korea), 16 September – 4 November 2021 — Following the Regional Trainings on Measuring SDG 16 in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean, the UNODC-KOSTAT Centre of Excellence for Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice in Asia and the Pacific (CoE), led six United Nations entities in delivering the Regional Training on Measuring SDG 16 in Asia.
The Training aimed to strengthen technical capacities of national authorities to produce, analyse and disseminate data for twenty SDG 16 indicators and promote a community among data producers and users, to facilitate the exchange of experiences and challenges.
The online webinars were launched across eight weekly sessions from 16 September to 4 November 2021, had an average attendance of 602, with representation from 83 countries, and 1509 registrations for the supporting online platform, the SDG 16 Hub.
Each webinar featured approximately three indicators with presentations by United Nations custodian agencies and detailed national experiences of data collection for policymaking in the areas of: homicide and other forms of violence; illicit trafficking and organized crime; corruption and independent national institutions; accessing and strengthening civil and penal justice systems, including prisons; inclusive public institutions and satisfaction with public services; protecting human rights and eliminating discrimination; and birth registration and public access to information.
The organizing entities included United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), United Nations Development Programme Oslo Governance Centre (UNDP OGC), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR), United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). This “One-UN” approach to assisting Member States with data collection for the SDGs will be replicated in 2022, for the Regional Training on Measuring SDG 16 in the Pacific.
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