Capacity Development Workshop on SDGs and Statistics with Civil Society Organisations
Objective: To encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships
The SDGs and targets are the results of over two years of intensive public consultation and engagement with civil society and other stakeholders around the world.
The revitalized Global Partnership will facilitate an intensive global engagement in support of the implementation of all the Goals and targets, bringing together Governments, civil society, the private sector, the United Nations system and other actors and mobilizing all available resources.
Regular and inclusive reviews of progress at the national and sub-national levels which are country-led and country-driven should draw on contributions from indigenous peoples, civil society, the private sector, and other stakeholders, in line with national circumstances, policies and priorities.
The socially excluded communities are not homogenous and include hundreds of smaller less visible population groups with high levels of development inequalities between them. There is limited attention or data on these population groups, their context and challenges get masked within the larger averages. The aim is to use the SDGs framework to identify and highlight the status of these smaller less visible population groups within the broad vulnerable and disadvantaged communities.
The Capacity Building workshop aims to bring together people from civil society organizations that are already working on data collection.
The aim is to create a network of people/organizations with prior experience of running surveys and data collection. This workshop will help them enhance their ability to identify, analyze, report, manage and secure data.
Agenda
Day 1: Wednesday, November 27, 2019
| 09:00-9:15 | Registration |
| 09:15-09:30 | Introduction and welcome to the Workshop |
| MODULE 1: Contextualizing the status of SDGs and Statistics in India | |
| 09:30-10:45 | Session 1.1 Open discussion on the role of CSOs in monitoring the SDGs and sharing of experiences
Do CSOs see data in advocacy and in their work? What kind of data is important for CSOs? How can CSOs use data for advocacy on SDGs? Good examples of the same. What are the problems faced by CSOs in generating and using data? Moderator: Annie Namala, Founder, CSEI |
| 10:45-11:45
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Session 1.2 Harnessing the power of Data for SDGs: Overview of the Indian Statistical System and the SDGs
Why is data important? How are SDGs to be tracked? How does the Indian Statistical System track the SDGs? Resource person: Mr. K.D. Maiti, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, UNICEF |
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11:45–12:15
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Session 1.3 Introduction to Monitoring SDGs 10 (Reduce inequalities) and 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions)
Resource person: Trinanjan Radhakrishnan, Oxfam |
| 12:15-13:00
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Session 1.4
Review of SDG 10 and 16 Indicators by participants: Group Work Resource person: Trinanjan Radhakrishnan, Oxfam |
| 13:00-14:00 Lunch | |
| MODULE 2: How to Identify, Analyse and Report Data | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Session 2.1 Survey Ecosystem – Current practices of MoSPI
Existing data-eco system; challenges of estimates produced by survey systems? Could there be a national system of conducting surveys, in an integrated manner; Session 2.2 Emphasis on Household and Perception Survey What systems does GoI have for conducting Household surveys? What are some recent examples of the same? What are the limitations and advantages of the perception survey? Resource person: MoSPI |
| 15:00-15:10 | Session 2.3 Case study on the use of RTI data for advocacy
Resource person: Lubna WNTA |
| MODULE 3: Technology and SDGs | |
| 15:10-15:55 | Session 3.1 Use of Technology for Data Collection and Data Security
How has technology changed the terrain in Data Collection? What are the new ways of data collection, synthesis, and consumption? Why is data security important? Resource person: Chand Kaushil, Head (Technology and Solutions) UNOICT |
| 15:55-16:10 | Tea/ Coffee Break |
| 16:10-16:40 | Session 3.2 Open source data collection platforms
Resource Person: Neelam Pol, Unicef |
| 16:40-16:50 | Introduction to Group Exercise- Pankaj |
| 16:50 -17:55
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Session 3.3 Group Exercise
Reviewing a survey protocol in Inclusion on SDG 10 and SDG 16 by participants: Group Work Facilitator: Pankaj Srivastava, CEO, Tathyashodh Consulting |
| 17:55-18:00 | Feedback on Day 1 |
Day 2: Thursday, November 28, 2019
| 08:45-09:00 | Tea/ Coffee |
| MODULE4: Analysis and Communication of Data for Advocacy | |
| 09:00-09:30 | Review of Day 1 and results of an analysis of Survey protocol |
| 09:30-10:30 | Session 3.4 Analysis of Data
What are the ways of analysing data? What do our survey results show us? Resource person: Pankaj Srivastava, CEO, Tathyashodh Consulting |
| 10:30-12:00 | Session 3.5Data Communication/ Data Reporting
How can data be communicated forcefully and in an accessible manner? What are the major errors in data communication? What are the latest ways of visualising data? Resource person: India Spend Team, Madhur Singh and Shreya Raman |
| 12:00-13:00 | Session 3.6 Using data for Advocacy
Session on generating and using data for monitoring success in advocacy. Resource person: Pankaj Srivastava, CEO, Tathyashodh Consulting |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| MODULE 5: Group Presentations | |
| 14:00 -17:00 | Group work: Data Strategy development on select Themes |
| 17:00-17:30 | Feedback on Day 1 and Day 2 |
