SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY AND INCLUSION Partnering for inclusive societies through inclusive data SSI Global Unit October 2023 The Bank is transforming itself to respond to the extraordinary and urgent demands of a changing world A transforming world o COVID-19 pandemic upended decades of poverty reduction o The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 have fallen off track o Geopolitical tensions are on the rise o Climate crisis is an existential threat to people and the planet o Widespread hunger, water and energy scarcity, and fragility, conflict, and violence A transforming Bank o A new vision: to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet o A new mission to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet o A new playbook: Knowledge Compact, Global Challenge Program, Crisis Preparedness and Readiness Toolkit, Mobilization of Private Capital, a One World Bank, new Corporate Scorecard, among others o A new scale of financing capacity: US$50 billion of additional lending capacity over the next ten years from Bank resources and new additional innovative measures to dramatically increase financing capacity People need to be at the center of this changing world to build societies that are more fair, cohesive and resilient Socially sustainable societies and communities are better able to work together to: o tackle persistent challenges, o absorb shocks, o protect their most vulnerable members, and o allocate scarce resources. Our vision: a people-centered inclusive development is not possible without inclusive data Build a broad and inclusive evidence base platform that can help us: o Measure and monitor the risk of exclusion globally and integrate that evidence with other key social development indicators such as poverty, income inequality, hunger, resilience, human capital… o Better understand the key drivers of inclusion at the country level o Better target interventions to the most vulnerable groups to redress exclusion (gender, youth, displacement, disability, ethnicity, …) o Better understand the effects of policies and interventions on those population groups In this vision, the Bank does not work alone nor focuses on a single niche indicator. Seeks national and donor partnership for an evidence base that is comprehensive and sustainable Never have we had so much social data World Bank is known for producing poverty data and being a custodian of some SDG 1 Targets but there is so much more we do in terms of social data Cutting edge data generation methods are pushing the evidence frontier Big data & Machine Learning for real time High frequency phone surveys to monitor impact of monitoring and predicting demand & supply COVID-19 across countries service provision gaps among displaced populations in Ukraine And yet critical gaps remain: “data poverty�, invisibility of most vulnerable populations, and fragmented data Despite progress, severe data poverty Systematic data on vulnerable populations is scarce. Most remain, especially in most vulnerable LNOB groups have serious gaps in data coverage, some contexts are almost invisible. No single data platform integrating (only 1 out 35 FCV countries has a survey to this evidence. estimate poverty less than 3 years old) Number of countries in the WB PIP Platform by date of latest Most Vulnerable Groups/LNOB Source household survey Children (including unaccompanied UNICEF MICS surveys minors and victims of violence) All LMIC LIC FCV Gender-based violence victims USAID DHS surveys (168) (53) (22) (35) People living with disabilities Modules in living condition surveys for about 40 countries Ethnic minorities Typically identified in national household and/or perception surveys in LAC, ECA and EAP and much less in SSA Refugees OIM and UNHCR (11 countries with dedicated modules in hh surveys) Forced labor, forced marriage ILO (about 60-70 countries with specialized surveys) Victims of human trafficking OIM, incomplete registries and no survey based information LGBTI No systematic evidence on wellbeing (ECOSOQ provides legal and norms info) What do we need to do? More granular and specific data More impactful analytics on vulnerable groups More analysis using real time data Project level data (specifically generated by the Better understanding of intersections intervention or project) More use of Impact Evaluations Country level data (household surveys, opinion surveys, admin data, social media) 01 02 Accelerating and scaling innovation Effective partnerships 04 A short- and medium-term plan Strengthen current partnerships with UNICEF, 03 to ‘mainstream’ the use of big data and AI applied to social UNHCR, ESA, Asian Development Bank, Academia issues Build new ones on issues like exclusion, resilience to climate change, forced labor, displacement, etc. Next steps: INCLUSIVE DATA CONFERENCE OBJECTIVE: Set the foundations to forge an inter-agency alliance integrating existing data on LNOB population groups and develop an agenda to prioritize evidence gaps to be addressed. Who: Government of Spain and World Bank (SSI, Poverty, DEC) convene UNHCR, ILO, OIM, UNICEF, USAID, UN Statistical Division, as well as leading academics other data initiatives, and donors. Outcomes: o An exchange and stock taking of most innovative data collection for LNOB. o A multi-agency working group formed to define a vision, priorities, and roadmap. o A sustainable strategy identifying resources and links with ongoing initiatives (i.e., UN Data Charter). When: Final quarter of 2024 How much: US$ 250,000- 300,000 Next steps: INCLUSIVE/LNOB DATA INNOVATION LAB OBJECTIVE: Build a data platform that integrates existing data on LNOB population groups; pilots data automatization initiatives; and experiments with new data collection tools (involving satellite, social media, perceptions data) on issues most relevant to LNOB groups. Who: Government of Spain and World Bank to found the innovation lab, develop a data platform with core functions and seek additional finance from donors. The Lab includes members of the Data Conference working group. Outcomes: o A branded platform for innovative data collection, management and analytics around LNOB groups o Data on LNOB groups truly integrated and available in user friendly ways o A strategy to explore specific analytics (e.g., discrimination, trust, participation, perceptions, displacement affecting LNOB groups) When: 18-month project, starting 2nd quarter of 2024 How much: US$ 1,000,000 initial investment Next steps: Multidimensional Exclusion/LNOB Flagship OBJECTIVE: Flagship on multidimensional exclusions across LNOB population groups. The flagship will present data and methodological considerations behind the measurement of MDE. Will provide unprecedented data on levels of MDE across and within countries. Will end with discussion on operational and policy implications to address MDE. Who: World Bank team with the strategic, technical and financial support of Government of Spain Outcomes: o A joint WB-GoS flagship o Joint dissemination of flagship results When: 12-month project, starting 1st quarter of 2024 How much: US$ 750,000 ADDITIONAL SLIDES To be deleted from the final and shorter presentation Next steps Scaling Innovative Sustainable Develop exclusion Influence global PARTNERSHIPS with country diagnostics agenda through Data & Analytics through an donors such as Spain (ongoing pilot in FLAGSHIP on Climate (MOU, Contribution to PERU and looking for change, social INCLUSIVE DATA LAB that SSI TF, Sponsoring other contexts: Low cohesion and Data Lab, Co- income & Low community action mainstreams and integrates new data authorship of Middle-Income knowledge products) Countries, West from different Africa, FCV countries) platforms Partnering with Spain on inclusive data lab Strategy Data Technical work Sustainability The Gender Data Portal: narratives and SSI GP is developing a indicators disaggregated by gender in Harmonizing data we Road Map of activities for terms of population, SDG’s, health, already have (e.g., disability, education, employment and time use, An Inclusive Data Lab, improving the availability ethnicity). of disaggregated data on violence entrepreneurship, environment, anchored in the leadership. Undertake new data vulnerable populations in inclusive data roadmap The Social Sustainability Global Data collection on social partnership with the and initiatives, fully Base : 71 social sustainability indicators sustainability issues in Poverty and Research (inclusion, resilience, social cohesion, dedicated to Departments of World surveys process legitimacy) for over 200 generating, curating Bank. This roadmap is countries and territories for the 2016– Innovate in the collection of and integrating new anchored in the Inclusive 2020-period new data (satellite, data on a regular, Data Charter, an external The Global Disability Hub (in progress) sentiment) and integration The Equality of Opportunity for Sexual predictable basis with a partnership of the Bank with traditional data and Gender Minorities (EQOSOGI)— sustainable source of with the Global (surveys) Partnership for examines the laws and regulations that financing. affect the lives of LGBTI people in 16 Using AI to integrate all Sustainable Development countries (being in the process of being data across platforms Data. expanded to over 70) Evolution DC Paper for Marrakech_September 27_final for publication.pdf Data & analytics work across social sustainability DAD GSG links across GLs within the SSI GP and across the Bank supporting country teams and global demands Social Sustainability Global Database Social Sustainability Global Dashboard Making the case for social sustainability Going beyond monetary poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa Flagship Making the case for social sustainability Social sustainability correlated with more equal and more cohesive societies Just in time analytical solutions Allocating FLLoCA resources How to allocate FLLoCA resources across counties based on the social resilience to climate change rather than poverty Global public goods multidimensional measurement A multidimensional Social Sustainability Index consistent with the methodology used to measure MPI Source: Ballon and Cuesta, 2023, Measuring Social Sustainability: A Multidimensional Approach Global public goods multidimensional measurement A multidimensional Social Sustainability Index consistent with the methodology used to measure MPI Source: Ballon and Cuesta, 2023, Measuring Social Sustainability: A Multidimensional Approach Applied analytics: country core diagnostics Bangladesh Social Sustainability and Inclusion Profile 2022 Prevalence of IPV & Child Marriage in Bangladesh Vs. South Asian Countries Applied analytics: CCDRs Climatic risks and social sustainability in Vietnam circa 2020 (included in Vietnam CCDR 2022) Positioning in global issues (ESG) Social sustainability and ESG are strongly correlated Source: Sovereign ESG Database and Social Sustainability Global Database