Introduction

In April 2020 the United Nations Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) established a Working Group on Measurement of Development Support to develop a proposal for measuring progress against Target 17.3 of the 2030 Agenda, “Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources” (Footnote 1).

The Group has accordingly elaborated a draft proposal, on which it now seeks feedback from all interested stakeholders through this Google form.

The deadline for responses is 20 August 2021 and the Working Group will consider the results of this consultation at its 14th meeting on 14-16 September 2021. The Group intends to submit a final proposal to the IAEG-SDGs in October, which the IAEG-SDGs could then propose to the Statistical Commission for adoption at its 53rd session on 1-4 March 2022. The final proposal will be updated as needed to reflect the outcome of work of the Sub-group on South-South cooperation and members have expressed the importance of this component within the proposal. A separate consultation on South-South cooperation will be conducted by the Sub-group.

The current proposal consists of three parts:
- Part 1 describes the sustainable development criteria which serve as a benchmark for identifying eligible flows.
- Part 2 describes the specific financing flows which the Working Group proposes to cover through dedicated sub-indicators.
- Part 3 is a series of Notes giving further details of what the indicators include and exclude.

The questionnaire allows you to make comments on any of the items and also includes a final section for general comments.

PLEASE NOTE: Brief explanations on all parts of the proposal are provided in a separate section at the end. These are also provided separately as a file attachment for easy reference (also shortly available at https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/iaeg-sdgs/ - see end of page for a link to this consultation). We encourage you to consult these brief explanations as you answer each question since they provide important additional information on the reasoning behind the proposals, and on alternatives that were considered.

The Working Group will make recommendations on possible further work as it deems necessary and reflecting the outcome of this consultation. This will include addressing international public goods (IPGs). However, this consultation is limited to the draft indicator proposal.

In developing the draft proposal the Working Group was mindful of data availability issues (including confidentiality and varying levels of detail in existing reporting), avoiding to establish any additional reporting burden on recipient countries. It is also expected that existing OECD and UNCTAD databases will serve as data sources. At the OECD, this includes data collected through TOSSD reporting as well as traditional OECD-DAC-CRS reporting, assuming that data compilation and reporting will be adjusted to meet the requirements of this proposal (Footnote 2). Pilot exercises are planned and are being initiated.

Footnote 1: See the terms of reference available at https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/files/TOR%20MDS%20WG%20(April%202020).pdf. The following countries joined the Working Group as observers: Brazil; Germany; Korea, Republic of; Netherlands.

Footnote 2: TOSSD=Total Official Support for Sustainable Development. DAC-CRS=Development Assistance Committee Creditor Reporting System.


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