Monitoring sustainable development goals: note on baselines for disaster risk reduction targets and indicators

This note highlights how Sustainable Development Goals monitoring should help national authorities to review disaster risk reduction targets and reform programmes by measuring the impact of disasters within the national development framework. It notes that the approach taken by the Informal Working Group for Target and Indicators (IWG) framework - to use a percentage reduction in disaster related mortality and a baseline to monitor progress - is unquestionably a pragmatic one. According to the author, it provides focus to a process that can otherwise quickly dissolve into vague and imprecise assessment.