During a workshop organized in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program, the Minister of Planning: Sustainable development represents a true starting point for achieving decent living for citizens

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During a workshop organized in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program, the Minister of Planning: Sustainable development represents a true starting point for achieving decent living for citizens

2020-12-27

It is facing it, in particular, with regard to development and reconstruction, and securing the sustainable voluntary return of the displaced. He explained that the Ministry of Planning, through the five-year national development plan, the poverty reduction strategy, the private sector development strategy, and the national population policy document, confirms its strong commitment to move forward in achieving the goals of sustainable development, through all ministries and various state institutions to set clear plans, It adopts those goals, vigorously and clearly, by working to complete the foundations of building the federal state, strengthening democracy, the rule of law, and the prevalence of internal security, as well as the optimal investment of energy and water resources, all of which lead to strengthening the economy, providing services, and achieving human and societal development. In light of the National Vision for Sustainable Development 2030.

Zeina stressed that the establishment of sustainable development committees at the governorate level is an important institutional step forward for localizing and adapting sustainable development goals to fit local realities in strategic frameworks and plans, and this is crucial to ensuring national development priorities. She indicated that the process of assessing the data gap for the sustainable development goals, which was conducted by the Central Statistical Organization with technical support from the United Nations Development Program in Iraq, represents a necessary first step in dealing with some gaps.

As this important report provides a detailed analysis of the current SDG data gap in Iraq and proposes alternative methodologies and assistive mechanisms to provide data that are not currently available, allowing and facilitating decision makers to efficiently prioritize strategic development paths. Indicating that the data gap assessment aims to expand the statistical monitoring capacity of the sustainable development goals in the country through technical support to civil society organizations in Iraq, ministries and executive departments, to assess the adequacy of the currently available data, and to identify missing data. And she continued by saying:

The electronic platform for exchanging data on SDG indicators has been developed over the Internet with the efforts and experiences of the Central Bureau of Statistics and UNDP experts. Noting that this platform will be a first step to strengthening the national data system and will help facilitate the flow of data across institutions and strengthen studies and research in this regard.

In addition, the first day of the conference witnessed the holding of several working sessions, which dealt with the localization of sustainable development indicators related to the environmental and economic dimensions, as well as sustainable development paths within the national content. The workshop also witnessed the launch of the Gap Report and the Sustainable Development Data Platform.

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