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- Sierra Leone assumed its seat in the UNSC for the first time ever.
- Sierra Leone’s Statistician General, Osman Sankoh has been unanimously elected as the Rapporteur, responsible for the reports of the United Nations Statistics Commission’s Sessions for a 4-year term (2020-2023).
- Thirty-six major changes to the global indicator framework for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were approved and adopted by the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC), at its 51st session that concluded on March 6, 2020, in New York.
- The revised global framework will have 231 indicators, approximately the same number as in the original framework.
- These changes are based on the ‘2020 comprehensive review’ conducted by the UN Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs).
Key changes
- Eight additional indicators were added across six SDG goals — 2, 3, 4, 10, 13 and 16.
- Six indicators across six SDG goals — 1, 4, 8, 11, 13 and 17 — have been deleted.
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