Presenting SDSN’s interactive website on “Indicators and a Monitoring Framework for the Sustainable Development Goals”

Dear friends,

On Sunday August 2nd, UN Member States agreed upon the Post-2015 outcome document, to be adopted by Heads of State and Government in September 2015. “Transforming Our World” sets out 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a range of associated targets. Now the substance of the agenda has been agreed, attention is turning to implementation. Of particular importance are the indicators and the associated monitoring framework, which will be finalized in early 2016.

The SDSN is excited to present an interactive website for its report Indicators and a Monitoring Framework for Sustainable Development Goals: Launching a data revolution for the SDGs. Through this site, you can easily view our proposed list of 100 Global Monitoring Indicators (GMI) and map them to the 17 goals and 169 targets. The platform also helps to illustrate interlinkages, demonstrating how individual indicators can cut across multiple goals and targets.

The Indicators report is the result of over 18 months of consultations led by the SDSN with the contributions of nearly 500 organizations and thousands of individuals – previous versions of the report have so far been downloaded over 100,000 times. The full report is available at unsdsn.org/indicators.

The list of Global Monitoring Indicators may be periodically updated as experts agree on metrics or new ones are developed to fill the identified gaps, and these updates will be reflected on the Indicators website.

With best regards,
Guido Schmidt-Traub
Executive Director