Tracking SDG targets on health and nutrition: Challenges and opportunities for streamlining surveys
Title | Tracking SDG targets on health and nutrition: Challenges and opportunities for streamlining surveys PDF eBook |
Author | Shalini Rudra |
Publisher | Observer Research Foundation |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 2017-06-02 |
Genre | Medical |
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The achievement of global sustainable development goals (SDGs) depends largely on India’s progress, given the country’s massive size and its moderate historical success in key health and nutrition outcomes over the last several years. This further increases the relevance and need for effective monitoring of India’s performance, through timely and disaggregated data, which ensures systematic assessments and course-correction. As India will be depending mainly on surveys to supply target-related data in the medium run, this paper classifies existing health and nutrition indicators from the draft National Indicator Framework (NIF), in terms of data availability. By highlighting the gaps in available data, the authors make specific recommendations to streamline existing surveys to align them with the requirements of an NIF for the SDGs. The authors review the draft NIF released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), and propose a revised one as part of this exercise.
Tracking SDG Targets on Health and Nutrition in India
Title | Tracking SDG Targets on Health and Nutrition in India PDF eBook |
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Pages | 54 |
Release | 2017 |
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Progress Tracking of Health-Related SDGs
Title | Progress Tracking of Health-Related SDGs PDF eBook |
Author | Shalini Rudra |
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Pages | 29 |
Release | 2018 |
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Given its size and the low baseline, India has a crucial role in global progress and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly in health. As a result, there is a great need for effective monitoring of the country's progress toward health-related SGDs, through timely and disaggregated data, which would allow for systematic assessment and course correction. This paper aims to classify the health and nutrition-related indicators from the existing health and healthcare surveys that India relies on for tracking progress and recommends that two of the largest household surveys be streamlined to strengthen the National Indicator Framework (NIF) for goal tracking purposes. The paper also reviews the draft NIF and proposes certain revisions from a data perspective in a revised draft framework for the government's consideration. Finally, it highlights various gaps and constraints in data availability, and develops specific recommendations to achieve a data sphere consistent with the envisaged NIF.
FAO: Challenges and Opportunities in a Global World
Title | FAO: Challenges and Opportunities in a Global World PDF eBook |
Author | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Publisher | Food & Agriculture Org. |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2019-05-01 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 925131411X |
This illustrated volume identifies the challenges and opportunities facing food and agriculture in the context of the 2030 Agenda, presents solutions for a more sustainable world and shows how FAO has been working in recent years to support its Member Nations in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Global Nutrition Report 2014
Title | Global Nutrition Report 2014 PDF eBook |
Author | International Food Policy Research Institute |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 2014-11-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0896295648 |
At the 2013 Nutrition for Growth Summit in London, 96 signatories (governments, civil society organizations, donors, United Nations agencies, and businesses) agreed to support the creation of an annual report on global nutrition that would be authored by an independent expert group, in partnership with a large number of contributors. The first edition of this report, the Global Nutrition Report 2014, puts a spotlight on worldwide progress by the 193 member countries of the United Nations in improving their nutrition status, identifies bottlenecks to change, highlights opportunities for action, and contributes to strengthened nutrition accountability on country and global levels.
Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2021
Title | Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2021 PDF eBook |
Author | United Nations |
Publisher | UN |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2021-05-30 |
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ISBN | 9789211014426 |
This report assesses progress in implementing the commitments and actions in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. The global economic recession and financial turmoil from COVID-19 (coronavirus) are derailing implementation of the Agenda and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Even before the pandemic, the 2020 Financing for Sustainable Development Report (FSDR) of the Inter-agency Task Force noted that there was backsliding in many areas. Due to the crisis, global financial markets have witnessed heavy losses and intense volatility. Particularly worrisome is the prospect of a new debt crisis. The FSDR highlights both immediate and longer-term actions, including arresting the backslide, to respond to the COVID-19 crisis. Recommendations are included in the report.
Guidelines on data disaggregation for SDG Indicators using survey data
Title | Guidelines on data disaggregation for SDG Indicators using survey data PDF eBook |
Author | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Publisher | Food & Agriculture Org. |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 2021-02-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9251339422 |
As a member of the working group on data disaggregation, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has taken numerous steps towards supporting Member Countries in the production of disaggregated estimates. Within this framework, these Guidelines offer methodological and practical guidance for the production of direct and indirect disaggregated estimates of SDG indicators having surveys as their main or preferred data source. Furthermore, the publication provides tools to assess the accuracy of these estimates and presents strategies for the improvement of output quality, including Small Area Estimation methods.