In association with the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Strategic Thinking Center (CEPEI, Centro de Pensamiento Estratégico), the Government of Costa Rica organizes this National Forum to contribute to the formulation of a roadmap for the generation of data for sustainable development.
The objective of this forum is to design a data roadmap that supports the efforts made by the country to the accomplishment of the SDGs through intersectoral and inter-institutional work. The aims to identify the main challenges in terms of data, technology, policies, resources and capacity, with the objective of supporting the development of a data ecosystem approach, led and aligned with national priorities and involving all interested parties.
Agenda subjects:
8:00 - 8:30 Opening remarks
Fernando Ramírez, President of the board of directors of National Institute of Statistic and Census (INEC)
9:00 - 9:30
Session 1: National strategy for the implementation of the SDGs
María del Pilar Garrido Gonzalo, Vice-Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy
9:30 - 10:30
Session 2: Challenges and opportunities in the implementation of the SDGs
Moderator: Natalia Morales, State of the Nation Program (CONARE)
Panelists:
10:30 - 11:00: Break
11:00 - 11:30:
Sesión 3: Session 3: Data availability for SDGs indicators (INEC)
Presentation of the country research findings on data production for SDGs María Elena González, Coordinator, Area of Coordination of the NSS, INEC)
11:30- 12:30
Session 4. SDGs data requirements, gaps and opportunities for Costa Rica
Moderator: Agustín Gómez, Member of the board of directors of INEC
Panelists:
13:30 - 15:00
Session 5: Data roadmaps for sustainable development and country experiences
Moderator: Davis Adieno, GPSDD
Panelists:
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30- 16:30
Session 6: Do not leave anyone behind: the importance of data disaggregation
Moderator: Alice Shackelford: Resident Representative / Coordinator of the United Nations System Costa Rica
Panelists:
8:00 - 08:30 Registration
8:30 - 08:45 Reflections on day 1 and introduction to day 2
8:45 - 9:30
Session 7: The Potential of Administrative Data
9:30 - 10:30
Session 8: Forum on administrative data
Moderator: Elizabeth Solano, Deputy Manager INEC
Panelists:
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
Session 9: Side events on key data issues
There will be 3 side events during this time that will focus on key areas of intervention to improve the data of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Side event A: Open data
Moderator: Fredy Rodríguez, CEPEI
Panelists:
Side event B: production of spatial data
Moderator: Pascal Girot, Geography School, University of Costa Rica
Panelists:
Side event C: New data sources
Moderator: Alonso Ortiz, GPSDD
Panelists:
13:00 - 14:00
Session 10: Policy and enabling environment
Moderator: Jorge Umaña, Consultant
Panelists:
14:00 - 15:00
Session 11: The Roadmap Forward - Priorities, Opportunities and Key Commitments for Costa Rica
Facilitated by Aditya Agrawal, GPSDD and Hugo Murillo Castro, MIDEPLAN
This session will consist of 4 meeting groups. Each group will be assigned one of the following topics to focus their discussion on:
a) Administrative data and data disaggregation
b) Governance and leadership: regulation, coordination and collaboration for the availability of data under a multi-stakeholder approach
c) Development of capacities and resources needed to move towards a data ecosystem
d) Data and technology innovation: addressing data gaps, new data sources and necessary technologies
Cada grupo discutirá las siguientes preguntas:
1) From what you have heard and discussed during the last two days, where do you think Costa Rica currently is in terms of its overall advancement?
2) What are the key problems facing Costa Rica in relation to the focus area of your group?
3) Based on the problems you have identified; how would you prioritize them?
4) Are there any other major issues, challenges or opportunities that were not brought up during the workshop that you would like to identify?
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:30 Report back
A representative of each group inform to the plenary about what was discussed in their groups. Representatives are expected to report on the perceived baseline, priority areas of action and new issues that require further exploration.
Facilitated by Aditya Agrawal, GPSDD and Hugo Murillo Castro, MIDEPLAN
16:30 - 17:30 Closing remarks
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