Strengthening National Geospatial Information Management Capacities towards Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Synopsis
The principal thrust of this project was to leverage the United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (IGIF), as adopted by the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) at its eighth session in August 2018, as a basis, a reference and a mechanism to establish and strengthen geospatial information management arrangements at national level. The development of the IGIF Implementation Guide as the Framework’s reference and implementation guidance is the main output of this project.
The project areas of work were:
- Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
- Target 17.18: By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts
With the development of the Implementation Guide of the United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework, the project contributed to the development of guides, norms and approaches to strengthen nationally integrated geospatial information management towards producing, disseminating and applying of geospatial information for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. In the process and through its activities the project:
- Convened four expert consultations and meetings to review and finalize the Implementation Guide in Washington D.C (33 participants, 13 Member States), Addis Ababa (33 participants, 17 Member States), Brussels (37 participants, 19 Member States), and Kuala Lumpur (48 participants, 21 Member States).
- Organized three international workshops on operationalizing the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework delivered in Santiago, Chile from 19 to 25 March 2019 (22 participants, 13 Member States); in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 30 September to 2 October 2019 (27 participants, 15 Member States); in Minsk, Belarus from 26 to 28 November 2019. These three workshops were delivered respectively in collaboration with ECLAC, ECA and with ECE.
- Provided technical assistance and support on the operationalizing of the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework to Malaysia (seminar and briefing on 20 and 26 June 2019 respectively), Chile (seminar and discussion on 12 and 13 September 2019), Ethiopia (stakeholder engagement and meeting on 3 October 2019), and Senegal (briefing and stakeholder engagement on 8 and 9 October 2019).
- Enabled a participatory and peer-to-peer learning environment.