The Hummingbird Vol. 10 No. 5

The Role of Data for SDG Advancement in the Caribbean

Education in Latin America at a crossroads. Regional monitoring report SDG4 - Education 2030

In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly approved the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This agenda, through Sustainable Development Goal 4, defines the importance of an inclusive, equitable and quality vision for education. This publication takes stock of the implementation of SDG4-E2030 in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 2015-2021 cycle, analyzing the achievements and recognizing the challenges for the fulfillment of educational goals in the region. The report identifies the educational trends of the period, and highlights that, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the achiev…

Quadrennial report on regional progress and challenges in relation to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Almost four years after the international community adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the third meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development is a propitious occasion to take stock of the achievements made and the problems whose solution poses challenges for the region. That stocktaking of the situation and analysis of the reasons for it is precisely the purpose of this Quadrennial report on the progress and challenges of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Latin …

Non-monetary indicators to monitor SDG targets 1.2 and 1.4: standards, availability, comparability and quality

This report offers a review of 14 non-monetary indicators of poverty to monitor progress towards the first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) “End poverty in all its forms everywhere”. The reviewed indicators are housing materials, overcrowding, housing tenure, durable goods, access to safe water and improved sanitation, access to clean sources of energy, garbage collection and nearby sources of contamination, (public) transportation, child attendance to school and adult schooling, employment, social security and access to health care.…

Addressing capacity gaps in the production of the SDG indicators in the Caribbean

The Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Indicator Framework is endorsed by the United Nations Statistical Commission as the monitoring mechanism for the 169 targets and more than 230 indicators of the SDGs. Reporting of these indicators will pose a formidable challenge to the Caribbean given the statistical capacity of countries of the subregion. The results of an ECLAC survey show that only three of the eleven countries that participated reported having the capacity to produce at least 50 per cent of the indicators. The capacities of National Statistical Offices will need to be signif…