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STS479 Ola A.
Figure 3: Situation of Palestine from SDGs indicators by goal and availability,
Q1 2019

 Localization of SDGs metadata, metadata reflected in a way that is related
to the local context specially using the Arabic language.
 Creating an SDGs web data base “Palestine SDGs Data Dissemination
Platform”, which created in cooperation with ISTAT, as interactive data
base and platform and the most important element that it is established
in Arabic and English to reach national and global users.

Challenges:
o Current data sources are not sufficient to cope with accelerating needs and
demands for statistics to measure society under conflicts and meet SDGs
requirements.
o Lack of resources bring to the surface the necessity of prioritisation and
enhances cooperation, especially south to south.
o Dealing with unstable, rapidly changing environment, which lead to
reassess needs and resources frequently.
o Working under pressure, where users specially decision makers ask for
data in short time for humanitarian issues that is mostly not linked to long
term development needs data.
o Weak institutions and lack of institutionalised data collection systems
increase the burden and cost of data collection.
o Maintain cooperation of data providers specially households during the
peak of conflicts or crises.
o Data confidentiality and statistical independency still the highest priority
under collecting data under conflicts and unstable environment.
o Availability of appropriate IT infrastructure and lack of local experts to
meet accelerating IT revolution and data revolution.

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