The IV Meeting of Information Producers Aiming at the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) started this morning, March 30. The event will be held on March 30 and 31, at the Serzedello Corrêa Institute, at the Higher Education School of the Brazilian Court of Audit, located in Brasília (DF). On this first day, the audience included authorities and representatives of several public institutions that jointly develop SDG indicators. 

Among the authorities attending the event were the secretary-general for External Control of the Brazilian Court of Audit, Juliana Pontes de Moraes; the executive secretary of the Secretariat General for the Presidency of the Republic, Josué Augusto do Amaral Rocha; the president of the IBGE, Marcio Pochmann; and the president of Fiocruz, Mário Santos Moreira, who addressed the Institute's commitmment to the SDG Agenda. “Since Rio 92, this agenda has been part of Fiocruz's institutional actions for society, territories and communicites in Brazil.”

Another participant in the meeting was the resident deputy representative of the United Nations Development Programme (PNUD), Elisa Calcaterra, who explained the contribution of the institution in the development of these indicators in Brazil. “The work of all really depends on the availability of these data. Therefore, we have supported states and municipalities to strengthen their technical and institutional capacitities, by means of methodological tools that favor local governance, quality production and the advance of territorialized monitoring, which is more precise, inclusive and usefulf for the need of each territory."

The president of Ipea, Luciana Mendes Santos Servo, highlighted the importance of partnerships to meet the targets of Sustainable Development Goals. “I thank the IBGE for leading this process, for everything the Institute produces is fundamental for us to generate information and analyze the Brazilian reality. I also compliment Fiocruz: without them we would not be carrying out regulatory actions in the field of sanitary surveillance. Another essential partnership was established with the General Secretariat for the Presidency, for we have learned that an integrated approach to the population and the guarantee of real social participation are fundamental conditions to reach our objectives. So, we take the opportunity to thank civil society for taking part in this process,” she added.

In his speech, the president of IBGE, Márcio Pochmann, highlighted that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become a type of compass to guide the limits and possibilities for facing systemic and governance-related problems and the governance possible in an increasingly complex world, especially in the beginning of the 21st century, a moment marked by challenges and instabilities that test the political coordination proposed by the 2030 Agenda.

“For this agenda to advance, it was necessary to build a national architecture of information and data to gove consistency to the reality observed in public policies. Brazil has been structuring this architecture for more than ten years, with the purpose of offering not only reports, but also coordination of national policies, allowing the country to present the best possible picture of its efforts in dealing with problems of a national, state, municipal and also global nature,” stated the president of IBGE.

Lecture on Monitoring the SDGs in Brazil

The lecture featured three speakers: Thiago Galvão, Executive Coordinator of the National Commission for the Sustainable Development Goals (CNODS) of the General Secretariat for the Presidency of the Republic; Helder Rogério Sant’Anna, General Coordinator of Planning and Institutional Articulation at Ipea; and Denise Kronemberger, Head of the SDG Support Sector at IBGE, who emphasized the importance of the meeting. “From this point forward, through thematic sessions, IBGE will lead the process of defining indicators for the goals that have been nationalized by Ipea. The development of these indicators will support the formulation of public policies and broaden the reach of the goals of the 2030 Agenda,” she added.

Photo: Thiago Antunes

Organization of the event

The IV Meeting of Information Producers is organized by the IBGE and the General Secretariat for the Presidency of the Republic, by means of the National Committee for Sustainable Development Goals (CNODS). The event is subdivided into plenary sessions on the 18 SDG with the participation of federal bodies that produce data, international  bodies developing activities in Brazil and academic representatives. 

Aim of the meeting

The objective of the IV Meeting is to bring together information producers to update the National SDG Indicators Framework, aligning it with the nationalization process of the 2030 Agenda targets, coordinated by Ipea, which is in the institutionalization phase. The meeting also aims to strengthen the articulation between official information producers, improving the production, integration, and use of indicators. This is an opportunity for technical-institutional dialogue on SDG indicators, focusing on methodologies, data sources, and challenges for their production and use in monitoring the 2030 Agenda. At the end of the event, a preliminary list of indicators for each of the Goals is expected to be developed.

Thematic discussions

Following the opening of the event in the morning, thematic debates on the Sustainable Development Goals took place throughout the afternoon. On this first day, among the topics discussed were: Health and Well-being; Quality Education; Life Below Water; Responsible Consumption and Production; Ethnic-Racial Equity; Zero Hunger and Sustainable Agriculture; Gender Equality; and Sustainable Cities and Communities.

Watch the opening of the event