By Tharanga Yakupitiyage United Nations — The world will not be on track to eradicate poverty by 2030 if current growth trends continue, a UN task force found. The Inter Agency Task Force, comprising over 50 international institutions, launched a report assessing progress on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, a global framework on development financing to help implement...
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6 June 2017: Twelve countries that will present Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) at the 2017 session of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) are part of the small island developing States (SIDS), least developed countries (LDCs) or landlocked developing countries (LLDCs). Most of these countries have shared the “main messages” of...
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IN a bid to efficiently achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Zimbabwe has engaged child and youth participation in local governance, a move that is in line with the theme: Leave No One Behind. BY JAIROS SAUNYAMA Due to lack of recreational facilities in Hopley farm children have nowhere to spend their time The SDGs, otherwise known as the Global Goals,...
Read More40 countries including Zimbabwe volunteered to be part of national voluntary reviews (VNRs) at the 2017 session of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) . The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developments as part of its follow-up and review mechanisms encourages member states to “conduct regular and inclusive reviews of progress at the...
Read MoreThere are 10 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that the Government through the Ministry of Macroeconomic Planning and Investment Promotion, has prioritized for implementation. The justification for prioritizing being that these were found to have a spiral effect of causing progress in the remaining 7 SDGs. It is critical to further deliberate on the methodology,...
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