Regional Training to measure SDG 16 in Latin America and the Caribbean

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) are organizing a series of training webinars focused on measuring progress on SDG 16 indicators in Latin America and the Caribbean.

These training webinars will familiarize stakeholders with concepts, international standards, and methodological tools, as well as an understanding of the challenges required to measure SDG indicators related to violence prevention, strengthening criminal justice systems, prisons, access to justice, combating organized crime, illicit trafficking, corruption, preventing conflict-related deaths, protecting fundamental freedoms, strengthening national institutions, promoting and enforcing non-discriminatory laws and policies.

Target Audience

All data-producing institutions in the field of crime, justice, and human rights or non-discrimination and equality in Latin American and Caribbean Member States are invited to participate. This includes representatives of National Statistical Offices, Police, Prosecutor's Office, Courts, Prisons, Ministries of Interior and Justice, National Human Rights Institutions, as well as other relevant entities.

Learning Objectives

The main objectives of this training are:

Strengthen the technical capacities of authorities and coordination between data producers and users to generate, analyze and disseminate SDG 16 indicators;
Strengthen the organizational framework and promote a "data community" among data producers and users for the exchange of experiences and challenges.