UNESCO Institute for Statistics - Institutional Support 2013-2018

Results achieved by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) with the support of the Government of Canada and other donors by the end of the project in 2018 include the points that follow. 1) Key indicators for the education sector were developed and the use and analysis of the data were promoted to developing countries. The UIS achieved this result after having done the following: a) developed in collaboration with other experts guidelines for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goal for education (SDG 4); b) helped countries map their educational systems in accordance with the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED); c) helped improve countries’ institutional capacity to collect and use education statistics; d) prepared analytical reports and data products such as the Global Education Monitoring Report. 2) International statistics were developed regarding learning outcomes. The UIS achieved this result by doing the following: a) inventorying the world’s existing large-scale evaluation systems and identifying best practices for measuring scholastic achievement; b) defining and measuring learning in general and in a number of areas such as the command of knowledge of environmental science global citizenship and sustainability and digital literacy skills and doing so across the entire school system from early childhood through higher education; c) advocating for accessible and transparent learning assessment mechanisms. 3) Cross-cutting statistical work was strengthened. The UIS achieved this result after having done the following: a) improved the quality of the data; b) developed the capacities of national statisticians and regional partners; c) updated the UIS’s internal frameworks procedures and instruments that were designed to monitor and improve the quality of its data.