Visualizing Progress: Data Insights from the 2023 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023 is a visual resource showcasing the role of data in achieving the SDGs and highlighting the areas where data gaps negatively impact prospects of progress. It provides decision-makers, the development community, academics, journalists, and the public with timely data to guide decisions on what policy choices to make at mid-point in the implementation of the SDGs. With this event, offices the World Bank Group Chief Economist and the World Bank Chief Statistician aim to: demonstrate, through interactive storytelling and data visualizations, the critical role of data in achieving the SDGs and how the availability of timely and granular data can help guide policymaking that leads to measurable positive outcomes; identify data-related challenges to accelerate progress in the attainment of the SDGs; and discuss how innovation and partnerships have helped and will remain critical to helping overcome data-related obstacles to get the SDGs back on track. Learn more: http://wrld.bg/ou8B50OPKm1

SPEAKERS
– Indermit Gill, Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics
– Haishan Fu, Chief Statistician of the World Bank; Director of the Development Data Group of the World Bank Group
– Umar Serajuddin, Manager, Development Data Group, The World Bank Group
– Ola Awad, President, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)
– Alan AtKisson, Assistant Director-General and Director, Partnership and Innovation Department, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
– Francesca Perucci, Assistant Director, UN Statistics Division (UNSD)
– Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Vice President and Head of Design & User Experience, Gapminder

AGENDA
00:00 Welcome
02:32 Explainer video: World Bank’s Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals
05:16 Opening remarks
08:17 Explainer video: We can end poverty without harming the environment
11:37 Explainer video: Better access to freshwater can be a boon for gender equality
15:39 Introduction of the panel discussion
19:29 Q&A | SDGs Atlas: Progress and challenges ahead
27:32 Q&A | SDGs and data communication, visualization and storytelling
33:24 Q&A | Development agencies and the impact of data on resource allocation
40:57 Q&A | The SDGs Atlas as a global public good
44:49 Q&A | Data gaps and data availability
59:19 Q&A | Interesting findings from the SDGs Atlas
1:05:44 Closing remarks

ABOUT THE WORLD BANK GROUP The World Bank Group is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and knowledge for low-income countries. Its five institutions share a commitment to reducing poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. http://www.worldbank.org

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