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stakeholders to map policy onto data availability and enables articulation of
new data requirements as well as an opportunity to strengthen content of
policies. The tool is developed to identify existing unmet demand for data, lack
of demand and potential demands for the future, and mismatch between data
demand and supply.

3. Features of the tool
EPIC consists of three major components: Issues for Action and Target
Groups; core concepts; and linking core concepts with Issues for Action and
Target Groups to develop a national sustainable development indicator set.
The Issues for Action, Target Groups and core concepts serve as inputs in the
process, while the indicator set is in effect one of the key outputs that emerges
from the process of policy-data integration and systematic user-producer
engagement.

Issues for Action and Target Groups
While Issues for Action signify specific national or local concerns on which
the policy or plan intends to act or make an intervention, the Issues for Action
would make more sense when the policy connects it with a Target Group
pointing out specifically for whom/what the action is being taken or who/what
is likely to benefit from the action. It should be noted Target Groups are not
just population groups e.g. women, children, unemployed, poor, families,
households, etc. (covering the social dimension), but also enterprises,
establishments, sectors etc. (economic dimension); oceans, mountains,
freshwater, cities, forests, species, etc. (environmental dimension), as well as
service providers, agencies, organizations, etc. (institutional dimension).

Core concepts
The second component, core concepts, are derived from existing
international conventions and declarations ratified or adopted by UN member
States such as such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (underlying
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principles for core concepts covering the social and institutional dimensions);
principles for inclusive economic growth (underlying principles for core
concepts covering the economic core concepts); and Rio 92 Declaration on
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Environment and Development (underlying principles for the environmental
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core concepts). The tool has identified 29 core concepts and countries
applying the tool are free to identify additional core concepts if considered
relevant. The initial draft of core concepts was inspired by the list of core
concepts in a tool called Equiframe which was developed to assess public

4 https://www.un.org/en/udhrbook/pdf/udhr_booklet_en_web.pdf
5 https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=400&nr=893&menu=1561
6 https://www.un.org/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-1annex1.htm.
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