The Asia-Pacific Stats Café series: Governance Statistics- New Solutions and Approaches to Address the Information Gap
This session aims to provide updated information, guidance and tools for NSOs and statisticians to address data gaps in reporting on the SDG 16 survey-based indicators and to strengthen official statistical production on participation in political and public affairs and on non-discrimination and equality.
This session will inform about the ongoing work of two Task Teams of the Praia Group which are developing short survey modules to enable the production of globally comparable official statistics on Non-Discrimination and Equality and on Participation in Political and Public Affairs. In 2024, twelve NSOs across the world will be field-testing or piloting the draft modules, and eight more have committed to doing so in 2025. To date, however, no NSO in the Asia-Pacific region has indicated interest in testing the modules. The Praia Group Task Teams are keen to engage with NSOs of the region to discuss the relevance of these modules in the Asia-Pacific context, and the possibility of testing them, independently or as part of a larger survey already planned for 2024 or 2025. It is of paramount importance for NSOs from all regions and all development contexts to participate in this critical testing phase, to validate the applicability of the modules across diverse socio-cultural and political settings.