Lauren Childs |
2019-09-30 14:38:48 UTC
Sept 2019 Update:
The Working Group on Capacity Building & Data Democracy and Ad Hoc Team on Sustainable Development Goals Sustainable Development Goals collaborated to host an awareness webinar December 19th - 19th, 2018, for the CEOS extended community with a focus on:
- Overview of governance structures that are developed or adapted to support countries in implementing the SDGs into their national development plans and priorities, and within their regional and international context;
- Examples of EO community efforts to integrate EO data into national development plans and monitoring frameworks for the SDGs via methodology development; country pilot efforts; capacity building and outreach activities; products, tools, and platforms available or in development;
- Examples of partnerships with organizations and communities to support broad use of Earth observation methods and solutions to enable countries to set targets and inform sustainable development policies; and,
- Key challenges, gaps and lessons learned to date in relation to extending EO uses in support of the SDG global indicator framework and to achieve sustainable development more broadly.
For more information, visit: http://ceos.org/meetings/wgcapd-sdg-aht-sdg-awareness-webinar/