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Praia Group on Governance Statistics

Malene Barbosa AlmeidaPraia Group Secretariat – 27 June 2018


Agenda

• Praia City Group... Where is Praia?

• Praia City Group on Governance Statistics

• History

• Mandate and objectives

• Steering Committee

• Members

• 2016-2020 roadmap

• 10 schema dimensions

• Lessons learned


Praia City Group... Where is Praia?

10 islands, 9 inhabited

Inflation (December 2017): +1,0%

Literacy (15 years +): 87%

Population: ~ 531.239

71,8 years (life expectancy)

80,0 years (life expectancy)

Unemployment (2016): 15,0%

PIB per capita (2015): 302.380 ECV ~ 2.742 euros



2013 2014

Cabo Verde

publish its 1st

SHaSA – GPS

(Governance,

Peace and

Security) report

2016

Approval of Praia Group's 2015-2020 road map during the 47th UNSC session

2017

Publication of the working paper with the members and non-members of the Praia Group

Praia City Group 2nd

official meeting in Paris, France

2018

Formation of 12 WG for the elaboration of the handbook and new version of the working paper

Praia City Group 1st

official meeting in Praia, Cabo Verde led by our Prime Minister

Formal invitation from the African Union to UNSC for Cabo Verde to lead a City Group in Governance

Praia Group formally established during 46th UNSC session

2015

Creation of working groups (WG) to support IAEG in the development of 7 Tier indicators of ODS16


Praia Group: Mandate and objetivies

Mandate: address the issues of conceptualization, methodology and instruments in the domain of governance statistics.

Objectives:• To serve as an international forum for sharing and developing

expertise in governance statistics

• To review, propose and promote the definition and harmonization of governance statistics indicators, trough the development of manuals and methodological guidelines

• To contribute to development of the framework for measuring and monitoring peace and governance goals (SDG 16)


Praia Group: Steering Committee

National Statistical Offices (3) United Nations Agencies (2)

Civil Society Organizations and International/Regional Organizations (5)


Praia Group: 2016-2020 roadmap

• A mapping, critical assessment and synthesis of available instances of the conceptualization and measurement of governance

ACTIVITY

I

• A mapping of the demand for governance statistics by various users and constituencies

ACTIVITY

II

• Expert consultations on the various constitutive dimensions of governance statistics, as well as user consultations

ACTIVITY

III

• Development of background documents containing methodological and practical guidelines

ACTIVITY

VI

• Support by the Praia Group to Goal 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals

ACTIVITY

V

Activities in the Praia Group Roadmap Deadlines

Dec.2017

2017 &2019

2018-2019

Oct. 2019

TBD by IAEG-SDGs


Praia Group: 10 schema dimensions

Gov. Dimension English Português French

1 Human Rights Direitos Humanos Droits de l'homme

2 Participation Participação Participation

3 Openness Abertura Ouverture

4Rule of Law and Access to Justice

Estado de Direito e Acesso à Justiça

État de Droit et Accès à la Justice

5 Accountability Prestação de contas Responsabilité/ Redevabilité

6 Responsiveness Capacidade de Resposta Réactivité

7 Government Effectiveness Eficácia Governativa Efficacité du Gouvernement

8 Absence of Corruption Ausência de Corrupção Absence de Corruption

9 Trust Confiança Confiance

10 Safety and Security Segurança e Proteção Sécurité et Protection


Praia Group: Lessons learned

• Lack of financing resources

• Communications trough email is not efficient (people received to many emails)

• Raising countries awareness is not easy, specially because is a voluntary initiative

• Sharing information among the 10 cities groups currently established by the UNSC

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