Progress report for
World Social Capital Monitor
Achievement at a glance
Cambodia is the first country that passed four semi-annual monitors yet. The reports for Afghanistan and Pakistan have been recognized and published. Since December 2017 the project contributes as well to the UN IATF on Financing Development and published a Policy Paper on the impact of Social Capital on financing development. In September 2017 the project has been presented at the UNOG in Geneva and featured in the World Bank Blog.Challenges faced in implementation
While the World Social Capital Monitor found non-profit partners in most of the countries, nevertheless many governments and IGO - including several UN divisions - are still not willing to collaborate and to give even non-material support to the monitor.<br>Naming them is not possible because it would worsen the opportunity to change their mind.
<br>One major challenge is to getting attention as well to the SDGs 1, 10, 16 and 17 that are left behind by most of the donors. We therefore published an SDG interaction matrix to bring awareness to the interaction between the SDGs: http://commons.ch/wp-content/uploads/UN_Goals_SDG_Interaction_Matrix.pdf
<br>Another challenge is to achieve funding that allows to involving more participants. Unfortunately we are not allowed to apply for funding in most of the programmes because the programmes are either national or focused on special issues such as food, water, nutrition, health, education, gender, children. General issues cutting across the sectors and issues - such as 'social goods' - are excluded in almost all agendas.
Next Steps
- Involving all regions to participating in the World Social Capital Monitor<br>- Launching a SDG Social Capital Fund to investing in the local Social Capital
<br>- Making some of our indicators becoming part of the official development indicators
Beneficiaries
30'000 participants in 141 countries took part in the Monitor yet