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found out that 29 respondents could name their SDG reporting agencies. 12
respondents indicated their Ministries of Development / Economy /
Environment / Foreign Affairs / Planning as their SDG reporting bodies. NSOs
are the second mainly assigned SDG reporting agency in 10 respondent
countries followed by 4 countries where National SDG Committee undertakes
the SDG reporting role. 3 respondent countries also stated that the Prime
Ministry and/or Council of Ministers is shouldering the SDG reporting role.
Inhomogeneous responses provided by the countries made it difficult to
analyse the overall SDG data availability situation at the OIC level. To remedy
this shortcoming, the data currently hosted by the UN Statistics Division
(UNSD) in its Global SDG Indicators Database [6] have been considered to
depict the data availability situation of the OIC countries concerning the eight
prioritised SDGs. Across 116 global SDG indicators allocated for the eight
prioritised SDGs and based on the data made available in [6] in March 2019,
trend analysis is observed to be possible for 47 indicators (40.5% of the
indicators). In this connection, SDG 3 and 9 are the only two SDGs on which a
comprehensive coverage is possible for at least 50% of the indicators. On the
other hand, SDG 1, 2, and 8 have a ranging level of 35% to 45% of indicators
with which a “trend analysis” is possible. It is also observed that due to lack of
data, it is not possible to do an analysis on 30 indicators (25.9% of the
indicators). The situation is especially not promising for SDG 5 and 13 where
there is only 1 indicator fit for a trend analysis.
In connection to the current commitments of the OIC countries for the
implementation of the SDGs, 15 respondents acknowledged that they have
cooperation with and/or receive consultancy from regional/international
organizations from UN agencies, UN Regional Economic Councils, World Bank,
and other relevant international and regional agencies concerning all 17 SDGs.
Closely parallel to the results of current commitment for SDG
implementation and cooperation linkages with the international agencies, 16
respondents stated that they are in need of capacity building activities for all
17 SDGs. At the goal level, SDGs 1, 7, 8, and 11 are with the highest number
of respondents (27) asking for capacity building and were followed by SDGs
4, 10, and 12 (26 countries); SDGs 2, 3, 5, 6, 13, 14, 16, and 17 (25 countries);
SDG 15 (23 countries); and SDG 9 (22 countries). Except Jordan and Pakistan
that stated it can provide capacity building to other OIC countries on all SDGs,
remaining 16 respondents stated they could provide capacity building on
SDGs to other OIC countries on different SDGs.

4. Discussion and Conclusion
The response rate for the questionnaire designed and circulated by SESRIC
shows that only a few dozen of OIC countries has the necessary infrastructure
to plan and coordinate the SDG implementation in their respective countries.

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