Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC organised a Training Course on ‘SDG 1 (No Poverty) Indicators’ with the attendance of 26 participants from the National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of 16 OIC countries on 17-18 January 2023 through an online video conferencing platform.

Ms. Pazlina Waty Che Pah, Principal Assistant Director in Prices, Income and Expenditure Division at the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), conducted the course and covered the following topics:

• Statistical Framework in Malaysia about SDG
  • Implementation and governance of SDG at national level
  • Contribution of DOSM at international level
  • SDG indicators publication
  • Mapping of SDGs
• Overview of SDG 1 indicators and Moving Forward to SDG 2030
  • Concepts and definitions
  • Methodology
  • Data sources
  • Challenges and efforts in the development and coordination of SDG indicators
  • Way forward
• Reporting Malaysia’s Indicators on SDG related to poverty eradication
• SDG 1 indicators of Malaysia
  • Road Map for unavailable SDG 1 indicators

The StatCaB Programme was initiated in early 2007. It is the flagship capacity development programme of the SESRIC. Within its framework, the Centre collects information from the NSOs of OIC member countries through the biennial StatCaB questionnaire, assesses their needs and capacities, matches these needs and capacities, and organizes statistical capacity development activities between the beneficiary and provide countries.

All documents and presentations of the Training Course are available at this link.

For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php