The MDGs were brief enough to fit on the back of a business card. The 17 goals currently agreed are something different. One difference is how they tackle national obstacles (in developed and developing countries). The UN family and the Brazilian government, one of the leading champions of sustainable development in the world, have opened up a new dialogue mechanism to assess what works best in Brazil.
The data revolution is upon us. So they say and so it happens! Our United Nations office in Malawi has been developing a real-time programme monitoring framework. This is about monthly or quarterly data. So, it is not quite real-time but far more frequent than our traditional pace.