From UNESCO's 8th Policy Dialogue Forum Forum of the Teacher Task Force for Education 2030

1. Measuring and monitoring the
Sustainable Development Goals,
education and teachers
Albert Motivans
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Teachers Task Force Forum, Mexico City
15 March 2016

2. The Sustainable Development Goals
and the new education agenda
Goal 4. By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free,
equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to
relevant and effective learning.
• 7 targets - life-long learning approach from young child to adult
• Quality - especially outputs and outcomes
• Equity - disaggregation across all possible indicators
• 3 means of implementation - how to achieve outcomes
• Teachers
• Schools and classrooms
• Financing /scholarships

3. Proposed levels of monitoring
*UN Secretary General’s Synthesis Report, December 2014
National Link to national plan; consult national
stakeholders; recognize context to address
inclusion and broader learning goals
Global Focused set of globally comparable indicators
based on clear criteria (11 indicators)
Thematic Broader set of indicators covers the range of
sectoral priorities (43+ indicators)
Regional Indicators to monitor frameworks
validated by regional groupings (AU
2063, EU2020)

4. Indicator proposals were generated in two parallel
but strongly linked processes:
• Global indicators
• 28 Member States led the Inter-Agency and Expert Group (IAEG-
SDGs); intl. organizations participated as observers.
• Two meetings and implementation of broad global consultations
• Thematic indicators
• Policy issues framed by education community (EFA Steering
Committee), indicators proposed by TAG with Member States and
CSOs; pending global definition
Global and thematic indicators
How were the indicators chosen?

5. Global and thematic indicators
How many indicators?
• Global indicators
• Currently, 229 indicators for the entire global
development framework of 169 targets
• 11 indicators – 1 for each education target
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/47th-
session/documents/2016-2-IAEG-SDGs-E-Revised.pdf
• Thematic indicators
• Technical Advisory Group proposal has 43+
indicators that include the 11 global indicators
• Seven indicators related to teachers

6. Global and thematic indicators
Finalising the frameworks
• Global indicators
• 47th Session of UNSC consider IAEG report (8 March)
• 3rd meeting of the IAEG-SDGs (March) that will continue at least
one year more for implementation (until 2017)
• Adoption of set of Global Indicator framework by ECOSOC (July)
• Thematic indicators
• Technical Advisory Group chaired by UIS
• Finalization of thematic indicators (April)
• Endorsement by Education 2030 Steering Committee (May)
• New Technical Coordination Group to monitor implementation
(from May)

7. Teachers in the global SDG indicator framework
Target/means of implementation Global indicators

8. Teachers in the thematic framework:
qualified teachers
Equity
Sex U/R SES Available Coverage Notes
Source: Education 2030 Framework for Action

9. Teachers in the thematic framework:
trained teachers
Global
indicator
Equity
Sex U/R SES Available Coverage Notes
Source: Education 2030 Framework for Action

10. Proportion of
‘trained’ primary
teachers, 2013
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics database

11. Annual
percentage
growth of
primary
teaching force
by minimum
standards, 2013
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics database

12. Teachers in the thematic framework:
motivated and supported teachers
Equity
Sex U/R SES Available Coverage Notes
Source: Education 2030 Framework for Action

13. Challenges in production and use of
data on teachers at the national level
• Reliability and accuracy of teacher counts across education
levels, especially disaggregating lower and upper secondary
• Coverage by types of institutions can be problematic – missing
teachers working in private and non-formal providers
• Indicators on training and qualifications often not comparable
across or within countries due to different standards
• Missing data on types of education expenditure related to
teachers
• Teacher-related data remain under-exploited though available
(e.g., individual characteristics, etc.)

14. Two monitoring roles
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UIS
…the UIS will remain the official source
of cross-nationally comparable data on
education. It will continue to produce
international monitoring indicators
based on its annual education survey
and on other data sources that
guarantee international comparability
for more than 200 countries and
territories. In addition to collecting data,
the UIS will work with partners to
develop new indicators, statistical
approaches and monitoring tools to
better assess progress across the
targets related to UNESCO’s mandate
GEM
…the Global Education Monitoring
(GEM) Report…prepared by an
independent team and hosted and
published by UNESCO…the mechanism
for monitoring and reporting on SDG 4
and on education in the other SDGs,
…will also report on the
implementation of national and
Education 2030 international
strategies to help hold all relevant
partners to account for their
commitments…
GEMR
Policy analysis and monitoring
UIS
Data and Indicators
Source: Education 2030 Framework for Action

15. Next steps for UIS with countries,
the Technical Advisory Group and other partners
• Mapping the data landscape
• Map indicators and data sources at the country level
• Understand data quality through assessment
• Speaking the same language
• Document common standards and definitions for indicators (e.g., metadata)
• Developing the right tools for the job
• Construct taxonomies of qualifications and training
• Measurement tools, metric, background data collection instruments
• Assessing national capacity needs
• Map national technical expertise for the collection and use of data
• Mobilising partners and stakeholders
• Advocate for improved data
• Share good practices in measurement
• Ensuring impact on policy – data that make a difference

16. Thank you!
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
@UNESCOstat