Policy coherence and statistics project (DA11)

The inception workshop for this project was postponed due to a change in the project approach in Bangladesh and the need to align with UN Country Team activities. However, the statistical component of the project proceeded with a national training and the development of a national strategy on environment statistics. This workshop was conducted in October 2019. This environment statistics strategy will contribute to the broader approach to providing technical support to Bangladesh to improve their environmental policy landscape.

Capacity building on SDG 17.14.1 is still included as part of the proposed project and is planned for later in 2020 or 2021 in a workshop being planned by the UNEP Asia-Pacific Office under this project.

Contact: Asia-Pacific Office: Jonathan Gilman; Statistical consultant: Robert Smith

In Burkina Faso, statistics was integrated in the inception workshop in May 2019. The May 2019 was also used to introduce the SDG 17.14.1 methodology. A follow up workshop which was used to develop a strategy for environment statistics and to finish the pilot test of SDG 17.14.1 was conducted in October 2019.

Based on the feedback from the country, Burkina Faso would like to continue to focus on statistics in the other aspects of the project. Two future activities were agreed to take this work forward (with funding from the UNEP Africa Office component of this project) these include:

• Hiring a national consultant to conduct a more detailed review of geospatial data sources for the SDGs (see the draft TOR).

• Conducting an additional workshop with the national consultant to discuss the findings.

Contact: Africa Office: Jean Jacob Sahou; Statistical consultant: Robert Smith

In Guyana, a national consultant working for the UNEP LAC Office produced a data report to initiate the project. The report noted that Guyana is just starting to develop an environment statistics system. This fed into the development of a national workshop which covered environment statistics in February 2019. A strategy for environment statistics was developed and presented to a workshop on statistics in August 2019. SDG 17.14.1 was also piloted in August 2019.

This work has fed into strengthening the monitoring of Guyana's Green State Development Strategy and is contributing to the completion of the project in Guyana. No further statistical activities are planned in Guyana.

Contact: LAC Office: Piedad Martin ; Statistical consultant: Robert Smith

In Kenya and Tanzania a pilot of SDG 17.14.1 was completed in January 2020.

No further statistical activities are planned in Kenya or Tanzania under this project. However, Tanzania is part of another project on environment statistics and Kenya is part of a project on marine litter data and another project on gender-environment statistics.

Contact: Yannis Derbali; Diana Ngina