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IPS298 Waleed Abdelkhalik
 Absence of developing statistical legislations, and its reflection
on statistical activity and relations with partners.
 Multiple challenges related to transforming administrative
registers into statistical registers.
 Shortage of suitable finance and technical support, and
developing national statistical cadres according to global
standards.
 Gaps in data and methodologies, globally, regionally, and locally

4. Discussion and Conclusion (Challenges can be fruitful opportunities)
Measuring SDG indicators face significant challenges in Egypt, where the
major challenge to SDG monitoring and follow up is expanding the goals as
they cover a wide range of issues, including the human activity on earth,
using water, energy, food, agriculture, health, sustainable consumption and
production, manufacturing, urbanization, education, inequality, poverty, as
well as gender issues. and disaggregated data that not available to ensure
measuring the indicators and making international comparisons, however
there are many opportunity to face this challenges by:

1. Speed up the finalization of the National Strategy for the Development
of the Egyptian Statistical System, which will ensure the provision of a
framework for partnership and collaboration with all the elements of
the statistical system in a manner that serves the acceleration and
legalize the processes of monitoring 2030 SDG indicators.
2. Promote communication with the partners producing data on the
international/ regional/ national levels and in coordination and
collaboration with NSO, in order to hold regular meetings to identify
the most significant challenges, conduct technical reviews for the work
methodologies, and determine the most important indicators that may
need surveys, which may positively impact monitoring the progress
towards SDGs.
3. Expand the use of the administrative records to produce official
statistics and achieve the sustainable measurement of 2030 SDG
indicators.
4. Introduce new sources and techniques to obtain the data related to
sustainable development indicators and employ modern technologies,
like using GIS and big data.
5. Strengthen the relationship between CAPMAS and all its partners in
the statistical work by fostering the culture of participation in
producing the indicators (the private sector, NGOs, scientific research
centres, universities and others).

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