Governance Statistics Praia City Group

The Praia Group on Governance Statistics (the Praia Group) was created in March 2015 at the forty-sixth session of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC). Its first mandate was from 2015 to 2019 and second mandate from 2020 to 2025.

Praia Group objectives are:

To provide a forum for national and international statistical organizations, international agencies, academia, research groups and civil society organizations to share and develop expertise in governance statistics.

To review, propose and promote the definition and harmonization of governance indicators, through the development of manuals and methodological guidelines.

To document sound practices and provide inputs for the development of an indicator framework for the measurement and monitoring of the goal and targets related to peace and governance in the post-2015 development agenda and in other global initiatives.

To assess the demand for governance statistics among potential user constituencies and highlight best-practices in their use.

To provide advice on ways to enhance processes and standards for the public dissemination of governance statistics.

The Praia Group operates with a secretariat and a steering committee. The secretariat is assumed by the National Institute of Statistics of Cabo Verde (INECV). The steering committee provides strategic orientations to the secretariat, assist in the coordination of the technical work produced by the Group, and support the Group’s activities, including the development and implementation of a communication strategy and a resource mobilization strategy.

The main achievement of the Praia Group until now was the Handbook on Governance Statistics that was developed and published under its auspices.

The Handbook on Governance Statistics was endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in March 2020.

The purpose of the Handbook is to provide a foundation for the development of international statistical guidance and standards in all areas of governance statistics. To this end, it conceptualizes and systematizes the various dimensions of governance statistics, takes stock of and qualifies existing practices in governance data collection, highlights the most important metrics in each dimension of governance statistics, and discusses the way forward required to achieve international statistical standards in each dimension.

The Handbook on Governance Statistics

Governance Statistics in the COVID-19 Era: a Praia City Group Guidance Note

Guide on the use of administrative data for statistics on discrimination and equality (Draft)

Guide on the use of administrative data for statistics on participation in political and public affairs (Draft)

The overall objective of a Task Team is to support the development of international statistical guidance, standards and instruments for measuring a particular dimension on governance statistics, by consolidating international, regional and national experience and knowledge on the measurement of that dimension.

Participation in Political and Public Affairs

Non-Discrimination and Equality