Serge Kapto

📰Check out our article published in the new edition of the Statistical Journal of the IAOS 🔎Where you will find a special issue entirely dedicated to the topic of #GovernanceStatistics - our favourite statistics!!👀 👉 bit.ly/3CkPoUR

The #SDG16Survey provides a high quality, well tested tool that countries can use to measure progress on many of the survey-based indicators under SDG16. ...And we are calling all stakeholders to support it's rollout to increase #DataAvailability📊📣 🔗undp.org/publications/s…

The #SDG16Survey supports #DataProduction on peace, justice, and inclusion🕊to help unveil some of the hidden truths of how violence, discrimination, inequality, & injustice manifest itself in the community, & identify entry points to address some of these persistent challenges✊

✅We need to invest in #GovernanceSystems to make them 🤝inclusive & participatory! ✅We need to innovate & leverage new technologies🔎to strengthen governance effectiveness💡 ✅ #LeaveNoOneBehind #SDG16 SDG 16 can help navigate intersecting global crises!

Arvinn Gadgil @UNDPOGC : “We are facing a crisis of crises: #climate, social & political #polarization, wavering #politicalwill.” #SDG16Conference

A strong call for doing things differently, needing political will, trust, investment and innovation. We should not be doing the same thing and expect a different outcome — @Arvinn @UNDPOGC #SDG16Conference

The world is in a state of 'polycrisis' – driving & deepening existing #inequalities as multiple shocks converge. On #IWD2023, Pathfinders' @roshnimen examines how crisis responses support #gender dimensions of recovery & resilience against future shocks: link.medium.com/fXFvpOXa0xb

#Inequality can shape, drive and amplify crises, and at the same time, be the consequence of #crises. In our new report, we examine how #polycrisis across 6 critical areas interact and outline the urgent policy interventions needed to respond. 📖 cic.nyu.edu/resources/an-a…

@AARPIntl @policydeb @JJDerbyshire @GAROP_Sec @UN_PGA @antonioguterres @JeanAccius @prundlet please join us to celebrate UN International Day of Older Persons. See 👇 @HelpAge @IE_OlderPersons @USUN @UN_Women @WHO @PABSeck @spkapto @Ramsey_Alwin

Some uplifting news on #HumanDevelopment progress in #Africa #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #2030Agenda apnews.com/article/covid-…

What would you do with $10,000 to realise your project? The Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Awards are now open. Wherever in the world you live and work, apply now: bit.ly/NGFP-2022 #nextgenforesight #NGFP2022

Trustworthy Machine Learning is all done! It introduces concepts for developing accurate, fair, robust, explainable, transparent, inclusive, empowering and beneficial machine learning systems. Free pdf and html: trustworthymachinelearning.com At-cost paperback: amazon.com/dp/B09SL5GPCD

#InternationalDayofOlderPersons By 2050, the population > 60 years will be nearly 2 bn <=> children: “historic crossover of an increasing share of older persons and a declining share of children.” @UN policy resources to help create #AWorld4AllAges: decadeofhealthyageing.org

#UNDataForum 2021 is a great time to take stock of the #datarevolution for #SustainableDevelopment. Has the hype met the expectations? A must-read from @devinitorg. Shout-out to @isiAfrica.

Children face a lifetime of their data being collected without their "informed" consent, with long term implications that are not well understood. #UNICEF has released a Data Manifesto for protecting children's data youtu.be/MBEPjFTuTPw #DataGovernance #DataProtection

Power imbalances and information asymmetries bet. digital platform providers and users carry ethical, #humanrights risks, can impede access to sexual and reproductive health information and services, #2030Agenda progress. #SDG3 #SRHR #DigitalTransformation undp.org/publications/i…

The "Great Unequalizer"? #COVID19 minted 5.2 million new millionaires in 2020. The rich are richer, the poor are poorer (and deader). And the achievement of the #2030Agenda is that much more elusive #SDG10 #inequality #LNOB theguardian.com/news/2021/jun/…

Strenghening #admindata systems requires strengthening administrative systems and effective, inclusive public services. Data is just the icing on the cake. With #householdsurveys, sometimes you get icing, but no cake #SDG16 #data4dev #datarevolution publications.iadb.org/en/toward-inte…

‘Ageism causes poverty, abandonment, elder abuse, physical and emotional suffering…We need an international treaty to guarantee older persons’ human rights...A UN convention must be drafted now’ says Isolina Dabove from Argentina #AgeWithRights #WEAAD2021 youtu.be/c8cdmieH5Zo

Newly released: Joint guidance, by #UNDP, #UNICEF and #WorldBank, for adopting and designing a national measure of #multidimensionalpoverty to report on #SDG indicator 1.2.2. Check it out at documents.worldbank.org/en/publication… #2030Agenda #SDG1 #MPI #ZeroPoverty