MDG IN DOMINICAN REP Leidy Zabala Manila 17

MDG IN DOMINICAN REP. Leidy Zabala Manila, 17 -22 October 2011

• National Experience • Complementary Indicator

COPDES Presidential commission is responsible for preparing the country reports.

• COPDES REPORT. 2004 AND 2008 Lack of coordination between institutions. Insufficient national sources. The indicators are not measured or published in a systematic way. Series with methodological differences in the sources Lack of consistent time series. Shortage of baseline data. Considerable difficulties in the indicators: MDG 6 and MDG 7.

Establish a national reference point for the consultation of indicators. Established as national MDG statistical sources. Integrate the data and ensure that the following national reports have a solid statistical database.

DASHBOARD, Internal chatter, Teachings of MDGs in BOOK FAIR

http: sinid. one. gob. do

National MDG technical group Workshops consultative process with various institutions. The report was the result of a collective effort where prepared seminars to each MDG, and we had an opportunity of hearing the voice of the institutions and civil society organizations, academia, and multilateral agencies. • Education Poverty Health Gender ICT Environment

• Improve interagency activities, and involve the active participation of key sectors in the indicators. • The NSO has been strengthening inter-agency work sector offices responsible for the production of statistics prioritized by current public policies such as environmental statistics and health, employment and education, other.

• During the discussion nstitutions proposed complementary indicators that help in cases; when there is no information. When it is important to follow up in conjunction with the official indicator to help in the analysis while prepare report. When we have different sources and methodologies.

[i] For monitoring country poverty trends, indicators based on national poverty lines should be used, where available. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Goals and Targets (from the Millennium Declaration) Indicators for monitoring progress Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Target 1. A: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people 1. whose income is less than one dollar a day Proportion of population below $1 (PPP) per day ***same methodology different source. 1. Poverty gap ratio 2. Share of poorest quintile in national consumption Target 1. B: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people 1. 2. 3. Growth rate of GDP person employed Employment-to-population ratio Proportion of employed people living below $1 (PPP) per day X Proportion of employed people living below $2 (PPP) per day 1. Proportion of own-account and contributing family workers in total employment x. youth Unemployment. . . our country has a important young population Target 1. C: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger 1. 2. Prevalence of underweight children under-five years of age Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption

1 v Pobreza 6 2 v Educación 4 3 v Género 5 4 v Mortalidad <5 3 5 v Mortalidad Materna 4 6 v VIH-SIDA 6 7 v Ambiente 1 8 v Desarrollo, TICs 7

Advantage Identification of spatial inequality. Support for the public decicions. Local development. Obstacles Poor administrative records locally. National surveys without provincial repr esentation. Provincial profiles with the Census and Survey

• The importance of strengthening coordination and communication between the National Statistical Office and the institutions responsible for each theme to support the MDGs with quality information. • Although we have made progress in monitoring of MDG indicators, we recognize the need to work for improvement and advance to face the challenges ahead.

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