https://www.dailynews.co.zw/articles/2016/12/06/zim-unlikely-to-meet-new-un-poverty-goals Zimbabwe is least likely to achieve the set of global goals aimed at ending poverty. World leaders agreed last year that by 2030, nobody on the planet should be living on less than $1,25 per day, the United Nations (UN)’s threshold poverty figure, but chronic underfunding is...
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Leroy Dzenga Correspondent— When the world shifted from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals, there was a voice of approval from developing countries.This was backed by a feeling that previously, the industrialised north had undertaken the role of prescribing targets for African countries and were interfering at every level,...
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World leaders adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, at the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2015, which includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) along with 169 targets to end poverty, reduce inequality and injustice and tackle climate change calamities over the next fifteen years. SDG implementation will require much...
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November 18, 2016 Features, Opinion & Analysis . . . dishing out stands not solution Roselyne Sachiti Features Editor — Government recently announced that it will be allocating housing stands to more than 100 000 civil servants around the country in both urban and rural areas. The move, while noble and welcome, particularly at a time accommodation shortage is...
Read Morehttp://blog.sightsavers.org/localising-leave-no-one-behind-promise-zimbabwe/This post is written by Peter Bare, Sightsavers’ Programme Manager in Zimbabwe. In September 2015 at the 70th General Assembly of the United Nations, the world finally agreed on 17 goals that would propel the world to the next level. But the next 15 years will have to be filled with more...
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