Poverty Reduction in Europe & CIS

Localizing the MDGs: The role for local leaders and using disaggregated data for local development

21 November 2007 - 23 November 2007

Location: Kazakhstan, Astana & Semipalatinsk

Contact: jaroslav.kling@undp.org

The training event aims to strengthen the capacity of local stakeholders to mobilize all stakeholders for local development planning and budgeting and for improved usage of disaggregated data in local development decisions to support the achievement of the MDGs. By understanding the importance of and sources for sub-national data, the objective is to assist communities to set MDG targets that are tailored to local realities. The resulting targets and indicators would be incorporated into local development strategies and used to monitor their progress. The workshop is based on two training programmes developed and implemented by UNDP: “Local leadership for localization of the MDGs” and “Building Capacity and Statistical Literacy for MDG monitoring”.