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contributes to the identification of the provincial and municipal-level
indicators that will operationalize and contribute to the attainment of the
goals and outcome areas in the PDP and SDGs.
C. Localization of the Philippine SDG Indicator Framework
Given lot of progress that have been achieve in monitoring the SDGs, the
Philippines is still faced with challenges particularly on the monitoring of the
Philippine SDGIs at the local level.
The localization of an indicator framework is not new to the statistical
community however, the process adopted for the localization, which
facilitated the linking of the Philippine SDG indicators to the national
development plan, regional development plans and local development plans
may be considered as revolutionized since local government units were
involved in the discussion and the SDGs were integrated in the local
development plans.
As a result of the regional and provincial consultations and assessments
on the SDGs, the PSA came up with Core Regional SDG indicators (CoRe-
SDGIs), which are consistent with the Initial List of the Philippine SDG
Indicators. The Core-SDGI was defined as the minimum set of SDG indicators
for sub-national compilation and dissemination to facilitate sub-national
comparisons to help monitor the achievement of the SDGs.
In order for an indicator to be included in the CoRe-SDGIs, at least one of
the criteria must be met, which includes the following: (1) it must be
consistently tagged as Tier 1 in all regions, (2) the indicator must be identified
available at the regional level during the national multi-sectoral workshops
and must have available baseline data in SDG watch, (3) it must be classified
as Tier 1 in at least 70% of the regions based on their submitted assessment
matrices, and (4) the data source of the indicator is known to have regional
disaggregation. These lists underwent review and was endorsed by the
Regional Statistics Committees (RSCs)
Further, as a response to the enormous challenge brought about by the
localization of the SDGs, the PSA together with the DILG and PSRTI
collaborated in the SDG localization initiative, which presented a distinctively
new approach in the development of an indicator framework for its
monitoring as it reached beyond the usual borders of the PSS and brought in
new voices such as the development planners from the local government units
and data partners in the discussion, recognizing their roles not only in the
monitoring but more importantly in the realization of the SDGs.
The localization mapping resulted to the mapping of the indicators that
are available in the Regional Development Plan and Provincial Development
Plan Results Matrices. Further, the list of SDG indicators that are common to
most of the municipalities were identified.

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