INEI participates in the United Nations World Data Forum

The National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), on behalf of Peru, has been participating in the 2023 United Nations World Data Forum (UNWDF) event that is related to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which takes place from April 24 to 27 of this year.

The Chief of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) Dante Carhuavilca Bonett participates in this event that aims to promote data innovation, foster partnerships, mobilize high-level political and financial support for data and build a path to better data for sustainable development. “The United Nations World Data Forum provides a space for discussion between different communities of producers and data users. It also enables to use the technology and other innovative and essential tools in order to meet the data demands of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” he said.

He also stated that this call is open to a wide range of governments, civil society, the private sector, donor and philanthropic bodies, international and regional agencies, the geospatial community, the media, the academy and professional bodies. “This community can engage in productive dialogue and identify ways to mobilize the resources needed for data development,” said the chief of the INEI.

The development of the 2023 UNWDF program comprises six subject areas such as new approaches to capacity building to obtain better data; innovations and synergies between data ecosystems; leaving no one behind; understanding the world through data and fostering trust in data and statistics.

Since January 2017, The Forum community has grown from 2,000 people who participated in the first and second Forums held in Cape Town (South Africa) and Dubai (United Arab Emirates), to an active list of more than 20,000 members, an increase explained by the more open and accessible Forums held virtually in 2020 and as a hybrid format in Bern (Switzerland) during 2021; as well as establishing a regular series of webinars aimed at maintaining interest and focus between conducting forums.

Each UN World Data Forum has resulted in the publication of a final document that evidences the progress of discussions about data and statistics, which manifests the aspirations of communities concerned.

This is how the Cape Town Global Action Plan (CTGAP) at the first UN World Data Forum (2017), which show cases efforts in the development of statistical and data capabilities to establish the full range of reports and monitoring needed to measure progress towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Subsequently, Dubai Declaration (2018) was given which presented an innovative funding mechanism in order to support the implementation of CTGAP; and, more recently, the global data community’s response to Covid-19 (2020) and Bern Data Compact for the Decade of Action on Sustainable Development Goals (2021) on how official statistics and National Statistical Offices (NSOs) are positioned during Covid-19 and then in a broader data ecosystem.