Strategic Priority Four: Data and Development Management

1. Increased availability, access to and use of reliable disaggregated humanitarian and development data for programming and decision-making.
2. Enhanced DPRK capacity to apply international technical norms and standards.
3. Enhanced compliance of DPRK with international treaties, conventions and other mechanisms and strengthened evidence-based reporting.

Planned activities

• Through targeted support, the United Nations assists the Government to:
• Conduct and disseminate 2018 Census
• Analyse and use spatial, social and gender disaggregated data for planning, programming and monitoring
• Enhance faculty of the Population Center at Kim Il Sung University to teach demography
• Undertake policy, programmatic and research studies and surveys on population and development to generate evidence for policy advocacy

Selected achievements

• The Socio-Economic, Demographic, and Health Survey (SDHS) 2014 provides information on the progress of selective MDGs;
• UNICEF has supported the establishment of the Child Data Unit inside the Central Bureau for Statistics;
• Resident agencies, as well as non-resident specialised agencies support DPRK participating in international conferences, seminars and workshop on the one hand, as well as technical training and consultations in-country.