NEWS– The Prime Minister Rt Hon Robinah Nabbanja has told Global Leaders that Uganda through extensive national and sub- national level consultations has developed six strategic commitments aimed at accelerating Sustainable Development Goals implementation to drive socio-economic transformation.
Rt Hon Nabbanja made the remarks while making a presentation during the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development during the 11th meeting at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Nabbanja said that to achieve these commitments, Government will integrate them into the Fourth National Development Plan (2025 – 2030) which ushers the country into the end of Sustainable Development Goals in 2030, enhance national and local financing mechanisms, strengthen partnerships for localized SDG efforts including citizen participation and strengthening the National Statistical systems.
Hon Nabbanja who was flanked by the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs Hon Nobert Mao responded to several issues raised by different countries and emphasizes Uganda’s commitment to socio-economic transformation.
Rt Hon Nabbanja briefed World Leaders that Uganda has put in place several mechanisms to deal with challenges of adverse weather and climatic changes.
While responding to issues of civic space as raised by civil society organizations, Minister Mao said that Uganda is a country governed under constitutional rule and everything is done according to the existing law in place.
Earlier on in the day Prime Minister Nabbanja made a statement on behalf of the G77 +China where she assured world leaders of the commitment in attaining the Sustainable Development Goals and re-echoed the need for the financial reforms to accelerate SDG implementation among the member states and said that G77+China will support all endeavors aimed at achieving the 2030 Agenda.
The Prime Minister also held bilateral talks with the President of United Nations General Assembly Dennis Francis at his offices in New York and discussed ways of strengthening working relations with Uganda.
Uganda is among the few countries that was selected worldwide to make presentations on the progress of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals to benchmark on the achievements made so far and the country has strengthened its monitoring and reporting mechanism on SDGs leading to an increase in indicators with data points from 41 in 2019 to the current 127.
At the mid-point of implementation of the 2030 Agenda, Uganda has made gains in Sustainable Development Goals implementation and progress has been made in reducing both monetary and multidimensional poverty among the population.
