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STS513 Sabrina O. R.
Further, the SDGs aim to meet the urgent challenges of the three dimensions
of sustainable development namely, economic, social, and environmental.
In the same year of its enforcement, the Philippine Statistics Authority
(PSA) Board issued Resolution No. 4 which states that government agencies
are enjoined to provide data support in the monitoring of SDGs. The resolution
also directs the Philippine Statistical Research and Training Institute (PSRTI) to
undertake capacity building activities to help the PSA and other agencies in
generating indicators to monitor the SDGs in the country. Moreover, the PSRTI
was tasked to conduct methodological researches to address impending
issues in generating the SDG indicators.
To fulfill its participation in the PSA Board Resolution No. 4, the PSRTI, in
collaboration with PSA, conceptualized the project “A Five-Year Research and
Training Program for the Philippine Statistical System to Measure the
Sustainable Development Goals Indicators.” For this, the institute hired retired
government statisticians who are familiar with the country’s data system and
have vast experience in developing and updating various indicator systems for
the research component of the project. This project was geared to review SDG
indicators (Tier 2 and Tier 3) that were not regularly produced in the country
and recommend possible SDG indicators for possible institutionalization. The
research produced a thorough documentation of the review done by the
researchers which presented the recommended indicators, its conceptual and
operational definitions, its method of computation and recommendations as
its way forward.
This paper delves into the results of the Final Technical Report of the Study
to Develop Indicators for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the
Philippine Statistical Research and Training Institute (PSRTI) that was done in
2017. Particularly, this would focus on the recommended indicators and their
way forward. In the list of recommended indicators, some of which were exact
matches to their corresponding global indicators; while other recommended
indicators were proxy to the indicator or sub-indicators to the global ones.
More importantly, the researchers gave their recommendations on whether or
not the Philippines is ready to institutionalize the indicator as its way forward.
This study would discuss the steps needed to be done in order to
institutionalize the indicators that were deemed to be ready for
institutionalization on the national level.

2. Methodology
The methodology used for this research can be divided into two parts
namely, review of the indicators and the institutionalization process. The
review of the indicators that was done by the researchers hired by PSRTI
focused on defining selected SDG indicators classified under Tier 2 and Tier 3
that were deemed relevant to the country’s increasing efforts on sustainable

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