Seguimiento y monitoreo de los ODS, una contribución a la Estrategia Nacional mediante el pilotaje de la meta 12.3

After the enactment of the Millennium Development Goals in 2000, the United Nations Member
States established the 2030 Agenda, which includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), as
a global call to eradicate poverty, assure prosperity and protect the planet. The first reports about
SDGs suggest the absence of data and inequities in the report of the advancements of the SDGc,
a situation that was aggravated due to the Covid19 Pandemic. In response, the United Nations urge
the different countries to invest in data and statistics to include all the sectors of the population and
enable a coherent implementation of the SDGs. Sustainable Production and Consumption,
contained in SDG12 is one of the goals with the deepest data quality and quantity challenges,
together with deficient calculations of specific indicators. For instance, the Food Loss Index (FLI)
and the Food Waste Index (FWI) as part of SDG Target 12.3 is absent in most Latin American
reports. Costa Rica, as the first SDG subscriber, signed a National SDG Pact; however, the
structural and statistical challenges have restrained the country of a proper monitoring and adoption
of the Goals. This later constitutes the problem to address through this proposal, in order to
contribute to the national SDG monitoring strategy in an articulated manner among TEC, the
National SDG Secretariat and the agri-food sector. The project proposes to diagnose the existing
data and information, to design a tool to collect and visualize data, and the final feedback to the
national strategy. It I based on previous experiences from TEC´s Planning Office, the Institutional
Website and the Environmental Management Unit, together with the studies in food losses and
waste, let by the Agribusiness School. Altogether, the participation of Information Technologies
specialists will also allow the application of the tool in a pilot plan of SDG Target 12.3 and the
calculation of the FLI and FWI. Such objectives will allow to evaluate the target, as well as to provide
an input for the route for the national strategy. Developing such project will support (besides SDG
12), the achievement of targets from SDG 16 and 17, and will jointly support Costa Rica´s efforts to
achieve the 2030 Agenda commitments.

Contribuir con la implementación de la estrategia nacional
de seguimiento de los ODS a través de una herramienta accesible para la
recopilación y visualización de datos, en el marco del monitoreo de las
metas de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, a partir del pilotaje de la
meta 12.3

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