SDGs Today: The Global Hub for Real-time SDG Data

Access and engage with real-time and timely data on sustainable development, obtain GIS training and resources, and learn how to use the data effectively to drive action on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its set of 17 SDGs. 

How does it work?

SDGs Today provides a snapshot of the state of sustainable development around the world. The platform aims to revolutionize how we understand and communicate the urgency of the SDGs, how we develop solutions and the speed and quality with which we do both.

This one-of-a-kind open access data platform has the potential to revolutionize how we understand and communicate the urgency of the SDGs and how we develop solutions, by providing a much-needed virtual space where key stakeholders from around the world can access and engage with timely data (updated regularly, at least once each year) on the SDGs and learn how to use the data effectively to push Agenda 2030 forward. The platform also houses GIS training and education resources and supports countries and other institutions to produce, share, and engage with the data to help ensure that we meet the global goals by 2030.

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Using Open-Source Data to Track School Access in Africa

SDGs Today wants your help to map school locations in Africa In 2017, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reported that six out of ten students did not reach minimum proficiency levels (MPLs) in writing and mathematics by the time they finished primary school.  In Sub-Saharan Africa, this rate was as high as 88 percent. In 2015, 193 member states of the United Nations (UN) unanimously adopted a new global framework of

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