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If USD 142.6 billion falls in the forest of development and no one hears it, does it matter?
That depends on who you are. While mothers in Afghanistan or South Sudan can tell you how their families’ lives have been transformed by effective development programmes every single day, strong data are needed to communicate how these billions of dollars improve the human condition and create more stable societies for all. -
Data are a prerequisite for delivering the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and ensuring that no one is left behind. The Development Co-operation Report 2017 focuses on data for development because quality, timely and disaggregated data are crucial for achieving the ultimate goal of development: improving the welfare of people and fighting poverty. There is, however, a major risk that the continued scarcity of basic data in developing countries about people and the planet, and weak incentives and capacity to fill these gaps, will hold back success.
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Data are a prerequisite for delivering the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, ensuring that no one is left behind. However, simply producing more data is not enough: data must be transformed, analysed and used to be useful for policy making, monitoring and accountability. The Development Co-operation Report 2017 focuses on data for development because the quality, timely and disaggregated data that are crucial for achieving the ultimate goals of development – improving the welfare of people and fighting poverty – are missing. Investing in statistical systems needs to become a strategic priority for developing countries and providers of development co‑operation alike. Strong political leadership in developing countries is needed to promote the cause of data for development and ensure data are produced with high‑quality standards, protecting privacy and confidentiality. Development co‑operation can help developing countries produce and use more and better data in a responsible and transparent way for good policy outcomes.
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