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assessment of the global SDG indicators and development of the Philippine
SDG Indicators. This paper will also discuss the initiative in the integration of
the SDGs in the national and local development plans. Further, this paper will
also present the development of core regional SDG indicators and the current
SDG assessment initiative at the local level.

2. Methodology
A. Philippine SDG Indicator Framework
The assessment and development of the Philippine SDG Indicator
Framework was a collective effort of the PSS and its partners. The country’s
work on building awareness and ownership for the SDGs began as early as the
conception of the Post-2015 Agenda in September 2013. In the Philippines,
technical workshops were organized on the SDG assessment in cooperation
with the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) and PSA and
funding support from the UN Development Programme (UNDP). Multisectoral
and Technical workshops were held to review and discuss the global post-
2015 development agenda goals and targets submitted by the high-level
panel of eminent persons convened by the UN Secretary General. These
workshops served as the best venue to engage different development
stakeholders in discussions and dialogues to gather insights and inputs for the
crafting of the Post-2015 Development Agenda, and to generate awareness,
interest, and ownership.
As part of the commitment of the Philippines to monitor the SDGs,
immediately after the approval of the initial Global SDG Indicator Framework
in March 2016, the NEDA in collaboration with PSA through the funding
assistance from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
conducted a multi-sectoral workshop in May 2016, which was participated by
national government agencies, academe, private sector, civil society and other
non-government organizations. During the said workshop, participants were
grouped into different sectoral concerns.
The primary output of the workshop was the SDG Assessment Matrix,
which is used to assess and organize indicators for monitoring SDGs in a
compact and standard manner. It also served as an input to program
implementers/policy-makers/planners in government and private sector, for
projects/programs/services aligned towards the achievement of the SDGs. The
SDG Assessment Matrix contains the information on the 1) Tier classification
at the global and national context; 2) Baseline data information (data
availability, frequency of data collection, latest available data); 3)Source of
Data; 4) Implementing Organization (agency responsible on the data
collection/data sources and agency accountable for the achievement of the
target; 5) Relevance; if the indicator is in PDP, not in PDP but relevant, not

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