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Afghanistan To Follow Its Sustainable Development Goals
Afghan officials promised to follow up the sustainable development goals of Afghanistan across the country by the end of the Brussels conference.
“After Brussels we are going to launch the SDG at the national level,” Afghanistan’s Minister of Economy Abdul Sattar Murad Said,” lack of capacity, poor coordination and financial capabilities are some of the issues which are hindering our progress, but we know how to go around these problems and achieve our goals and our targets.”
At the same time, UNDP official emphasized that implementation of the SDG’s will help to eradicate poverty problem that currently millions of people are suffering across the globe.
“SDGs are very important for poor countries, because this is an international framework and it studies all aspects of sustainable development and aims to reduce poverty and social progress”, Haoliang Xu, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and Pacific at the United Nations Development Programme said.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) refer to an agreement of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012 (Rio+20), to develop a set of future international development goals.
On September 25, world leaders from 193 nations including Afghanistan endorsed an ambitious agenda for global change called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs represent a fifteen-year agenda (2015-2030) to guide the international community in our shared efforts to achieve three objectives: end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and protect our planet. At the UN General Assembly, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, on behalf of the Government of Afghanistan, committed to pursuing these goals together with Afghanistan’s development partners.
Reported by: Abdul Aziz Karimi