The UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) workshop on Sound Institutional Environment, Cooperation, Dialogue and Partnerships for the Production and Utilization of SDG Indicators will address the institutional environment for official statistics in support of monitoring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including governance, leadership, coordination mechanisms and tools, as well as dialogue and partnership between producers and users of data and statistics.

Participants will discuss institutional, organizational and managerial arrangements that can best sustain the transformation and modernization of official statistics in order to address emerging needs for high-quality and internationally comparable data and statistics, including for the follow up and review of progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The workshop will contribute to the development of guidelines, compilations of best practices and other training material at the global and regional levels.

dates: 16-18 January 2018
location: Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon
www: https://www.unescwa.org/events/sound-institutional-environment-cooperation-dialogue-partnerships-production