Abstract

In 2015, UN member countries pledged their commitment to advancing the ambitious 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Although a considerable number of countries have made significant strides in measuring progress towards sustainable development, many specific indicators still require basic inputs.

This article describes and analyzes a case study in the frame of the growingly considered concept of third-party data from civil society for the sustainable development goals (SDG). The paper departs by modelling citizen 2 government data partnerships, then illustrated in a real-life practice. The featured case study, called Map4Census, is an experiment developed by GeoCensos Foundation, a non-governmental organization that essayed a prototype of data partnership supported the IADB to assist the National Statistical Office of El Salvador. Findings conclude evaluating the outcomes of data partnerships from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with governments for the SDGs. When discussing in depth the issue, it asserts positive tradeoffs between data quality validation and bottom-up data disaggregation in participative agendas. The research also warns about conditions to be revised in these kinds of initiatives
for the 2030 Agenda.