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Country
Samoa
Year
2020
Income Group
Upper middle income
Source
VNR
Facilitating multistakeholder engagement
Report
2
Region
Oceania
Sub-region
Polynesia
Finding
As part of the VNR, the government of Samoa organized a multi-stakeholder “data validation week,” which was considered to be critical to defining the dataset on which reported information was based. Before the meetings, national authorities shared a draft indicator matrix across government, civil society, and private sector stakeholders for input. Consultations led to a participatory discussion and validation of the existing data. This helped to identify better data produced by different actors of the Samoan data community. The data presented in the VNR report is thus the result of a multi-stakeholder validation and enrichment process.
