7.13 Needs of other international policy frameworks

Other international policy frameworks include human rights reporting under international human rights treaties, the Paris Climate Change Agreement, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and many others.

They are all reaching out to NSOs to provide the basis for the reporting and monitoring, impelled by the strong international comparability offered by official statistics.

The international statistical system works in collaboration across countries, thereby bringing the best experts together to develop new statistics and statistical methods. The pressure to increase coordination within the NSS is coming from users, including the government and international organizations, who are looking for compatibility, high quality and easier access to the required information.