Only 12% of SDGs on track - UN

Only 12% of the SDGs indicators, according to Susan Namondo, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Uganda, are on track throughout the 193 nations where they are being implemented.

According to her, only 30% of these have seen any improvement, and many nations may miss the 2030 target if sufficient advice is not provided.

“The national poverty headcount has remained higher here in Uganda, with 19% recorded in 2012–2013. As food costs stay higher in many nations, the world has returned to the levels of famine last experienced in 2005,” Namondo said.

She delivered the statements while speaking as the 29 United Nations agencies in Uganda at the second annual SDG review conference in Uganda, which was held in Kampala.

Uganda's sustainable development objectives

Since the early 1990s, when it became a popular development model, Uganda has actively pursued the sustainable development goals. The three key transitional phases of this endeavour have been post-war reconstruction (1986–1977), the eradication of poverty (1997–2009), and social economic change (2010–2020).

The National planning Authority identified some of these challenges for implementing the SDGs as “weak multi-sectoral implementation planning, coordination gaps, data and reporting inadequacies, weak public private partnership and limited financial resources” (NPA, 2016).

Some of these challenges, according to experts, will require political will from mostly the executive arm of the Government. With this, they say, implementation can easily be atatained.