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IPS298 Waleed Abdelkhalik

Measuring Sustainable Development Goals
Indicators (SDGs) in Egypt: Challenges,
opportunities, progress and innovations
Waleed Abdelkhalik
Statistician at National Statistical Office, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract
In March 2015 at its forty-sixth session, the United Nations Statistical
Commission created an Inter-agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators
(IAEG-SDGs), which is composed of representatives from a regionally-
balanced group of Member States and includes regional and international
agencies as observers. The group also invites as other key stakeholders, such
as civil society, academia and the private sector, to attend its meetings and to
provide inputs during consultations. The IAEG-SDGs was tasked with providing
a proposal for a global indicator framework to follow up and review of the
2030 Agenda. In this context, the Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development In September 2015; the overarching principle of
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is that no one should be left
behind. To achieve that there is issues should take in account by National
Statistical Offices (NSO) such as “ Data which is high quality, accessible, timely,
reliable and disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migration
status, disability and geographic location and other characteristics relevant in
national contexts To support implementation at all levels. Based on above and
To meet the ambitions and demands of the 2030 Agenda, NSO in all over the
world has started to review their statistical survey and their statistical
programs, capabilities to monitor the challenges of measuring and follow-up
SDGs, so This paper aim to discuss the efforts exerted by NSO in Egypt to
assess the current status for SDGs, and the challenges of assessing and
monitoring SDGs, In fact, indicators, methodologies, innovations are crucial to
face with these challenges and could be considered from different points of
view. Challenges are opportunities for fruitful improvement of the statistical
system in Egypt to fill data gap that related with SDGs

Keywords
Data Ecosystem; Egypt’s Vision 2030; Data Disaggregation; SDGs report; the
2030 Agenda: SDG Observatory

1. Introduction
On 25 September 2015, world leaders meeting in New York adopted
United Nations Resolution 70/1, “Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development”. The Agenda is “a plan of action for people,

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