A/HRC/33/22
was co-led by UNICEF and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the
Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), contributing to increased understanding of
equality as a fundamental human right and non-discrimination issue.33
43.
Subsequently, OHCHR continued to provide contributions throughout the process to
define the 2030 Agenda via the United Nations Technical Support Team, to ensure that a
human rights approach was reflected in Goal 16 targets, and that a target on providing
universal legal identity through birth registration was included. During the negotiation
process, OHCHR provided support for the drafting of the Sustainable Development Goals,
and technical input was supplied, where requested, to support member State positions on
the draft agreement. OHCHR also engaged in further collaboration with civil society, the
United Nations system and other partners on the substance of Goal 16, for example through
the Virtual Network on Indicators for Sustainable Development Goal 16, led by UNDP, and
the Praia Group on Governance Statistics under the auspices of the United Nations
Statistical Commission.
Indicators
44.
OHCHR has worked to support the development of Sustainable Development Goal
indicators that incorporate key human rights considerations, and to ensure the inclusion of
indicators to support the realization of universal legal identity. OHCHR develops policy
and practical guidance, provides technical advice and conducts training activities on human
rights indicators, to support national and international stakeholders in measuring and
monitoring the implementation of human rights standards. OHCHR has also participated
consistently in the work of the international statistical community to develop indicators for
monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals, with a view to strengthening human rights
approaches to measurement using statistical methods and tools.
45.
The input of OHCHR to the development of indicators to monitor progress under
Goal 16 targets has been extensive. For example, OHCHR proposed the inclusion of an
indicator on monitoring target 16.9 to the United Nations Technical Support Team, the head
of chief statisticians of the United Nations system, and the Virtual Network on Indicators
for Sustainable Development Goal 16, and in the global list of indicators compiled by the
Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators.34 This
indicator (16.9.1) on the “proportion of children under 5 years of age whose births have
been registered with a civil authority, by age”, has now been included in the global list of
indicators endorsed by the United Nations Statistical Commission.35 OHCHR subsequently
prepared metadata for this indicator in consultation with national statistics offices, United
Nations agencies, civil society organizations and other relevant stakeholders.
46.
As part of its efforts to integrate human rights considerations into the list of
indicators agreed to monitor progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, OHCHR has
undertaken substantial engagement with the United Nations Statistical Commission and
with the wider statistical community, for example, by participating in the 2016 session of
the Statistical Commission, which involved chief statisticians from member States, and
through its membership on the steering committee of the Praia Group on Governance
Statistics, a key forum through which to advance indicators related to governance and
indicators related to monitoring target 16.9, on birth registration. The substantive input of
OHCHR during the processes to define the 2030 Agenda goals, targets and indicators, as
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www.worldwewant2030.org/inequalities.
See E/CN.3/2016/2/Rev.1, annex IV.
The Statistical Commission, in its decision 47/101, agreed with this list of indicators as a practical
starting point, subject to future technical refinement. See E/2016/24-E/CN.3/2016/34, chap. I.B.
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