The Lagos State ministry of Economic Planing and
Budget is collaborating with the United Kingdom department for international
development and the United Nations Information Center (UNIC) to achieve
the vision of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Lagos before 2030.
Against this backdrop, a sensitization seminar has
been organised for local government officials in the three senatorial district
in the State.
The seminar is aimed at orientating local government
officials on how to cascade the vision of sustainable development goals in
their various grassroots catchment.
Speaking at the seminar which held at the United
nations information center for local official at the Lagos central senatorial
district, the director of the ministry of economic planning and budget
development Mr. Bankole Adetola, stated that the Lagos State government have
decided to “take the bull by the Horn”, through mobilization of all key
stakeholders.
He noted that the mobilization is aimed at curbing
the shortfalls of the millennium development goals which ended in 2015.
“We want to avoid the shortfalls of MDGs which is basically lack of awareness.
therefore we have constituted a champions group which have gone through
training, and it is now their duty to create massive awareness in their
constituencies.
The Director, UNIC Lagos, Ronald
Kayanja, Described sustainable development goals as an
offshoot of the millennium development goals. According to him, the latter is
aimed at consolidating on the lapses of the former, which could not achieve its
objective of eradicating poverty in the world.
Kayanja commended Lagos State government for the
partnership and implementation strategy which involves generating data through
indicators that review what each unit is doing, and also the sensitization
seminar for local government officials.
MDGs, have seventeen goals, one hundred and
sixty-nine target and two hundred and three indicators.
By Umoru Covenant
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