Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development The Westin Denarau Island Resort & Spa, Nadi, Fiji 14-15 December 2020
Update on Progress of Pacific against 2030 Agenda ESCAP SDG Gateway (https://www.unescap.org/stat/data)
Chris Ryan ESCAP Pacific Office Outline of power point
Overview of Pacific progress against the SDGs - Snapshot against each Goal
Data availability - Why is data so scarce in the Pacific?
Focused progress on selected indicators - SDG focus goals (1, 2, 3, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16 & 17)
Way forward Pacific Progress
• Only Goal 13 on track
• Most other goals are heading in the right direction, but need acceleration
• Regression (Goal 16) ➢ Largely influenced by unsentenced detainees SDG Indicator Availability
Australia Fiji Good availability: Samoa New Zealand 3: Health Solomon Islands Vanuatu 7: Energy Papua New Guinea 15: Land Tonga Kiribati Micronesia (FSM) Marshall Is Palau Poor availability: Cook Islands 5: Gender Tuvalu Nauru 11: Cities Niue 13: Climate Change New Caledonia French Polynesia 14: Oceans Guam 16: Peace American Samoa Northern Marianas 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Sufficient Insufficient No Data Why so little data?
• Data does not exist – not being produced
• National Data flow problem from the data producer/provider to the indicator producer (often the NSO)
• Data flow problem from country to regional (ESCAP) or global DB ➢ SDGs go through a custodian agency approval process 17.3.2: Personal remittances received (% of GDP) 45.0 • Only includes 40.0 those countries 35.0 4% and above 30.0
25.0 • Tonga 20% ->
20.0 40% in this period 15.0
10.0 • Samoa (18%) 5.0 and RMI (14%)
0.0 also very 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 significant Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia (F.S.) Nauru Samoa Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu 10.c.1: Remittance Costs as Proportion of Remittances 18.0 • Remittance costs on the decline 16.0
14.0 • Way off target “10.c: By 2030, 12.0 reduce to less than 10.0 3 per cent the
8.0 transaction costs of migrant remittances 6.0 and eliminate 4.0 remittance corridors
2.0 with costs higher than 5 per cent” 0.0 2011 2015 2017 2018
Fiji Samoa Tonga Vanuatu 3.3.2: Tuberculosis Incidence Rate (Per 100,000 population) 700 Since 2010
600 • Kiribati and Marshall Islands 500 haven’t
400 changed
300 • Tuvalu nearly
200 doubled
100 • FSM nearly halved 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia (F.S.) Nauru Northern Mariana Islands Palau Solomon Islands Tuvalu Vanuatu 3.2.1: Under 5 Mortality Rate 80 Since 2000
70 • Obvious trend 60 showing improvement 50
40 • SDG Target is less
30 than 25/1,000 live births by 2030 20
10 • Countries like
0 Kiribati and PNG 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 need to get moving Cook Islands Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia (F.S.) Nauru Niue Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu 12.a.1: Renewable electricity (kilowatts per capita) • Not much 600 happening 2000 - 2010 500
400 • Cooks, Niue and Tuvalu 300 taking off
200 • Fiji steady 100 progress
0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 • Samoa good Cook Islands Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands recent progress Micronesia (F.S.) Nauru Niue Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu 16.3.2: Unsentenced detainees (% of prison population) 60
50 • Solomons and PNG
40 (and also Fiji) quite high
30 &
20 • Heading in
10 the wrong direction
0 2005 2015 2018
Cook Islands Fiji Kiribati Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Vanuatu 17.8.1: Internet Users (% of population) 60.0
50.0 • Great progress being seen
40.0 • Still work to be 30.0 done
20.0 Aus (86.5)
10.0 NZ (90.8)
0.0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Cook Islands Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia (F.S.) Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Tracking progress against the 2030 Agenda: Moving forward
National Statistical Systems in the Pacific are over-whelmed with data requirements placed upon them (especially since the introduction of the SDGs)
1. Pacific Islands countries need to focus more on identifying what indicators are priority to them – SDGs and beyond 2. Data flows need to be improved – Nationally and by custodian agencies of SDG indicators 3. Progress assessments against the 2030 agenda at the national level can be enhanced a lot by including more proxy indicators – Work in progress just commenced by ESCAP Statistics Division – ESCAP will be looking to work with SPC and PIFS to see how this can be further developed in this region THANK YOU
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