The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and its 169 targets were announced at the Summit. Since the adoption of the goals, Tanzania has been in the process of mainstreaming the SDGs into its national policy frameworks, which include the national development plan and monitoring and evaluation systems.
On 25 May 2016, the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF), in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance, Poverty Eradication Division, and with support from UNDP, coordinated a brainstorming workshop to discuss the implementation of SDGs in Tanzania. The workshop was a continuation of ESRF’s previous involvement in the formulation and implementation of the post-2015 agenda since 2012 – the ESRF is a member of the network viz. Southern Voice on Post-MDG International Development Goals, which addresses the existing ’knowledge asymmetry‘ in the global debates and ’participation deficit’ of the developing countries by generating evidence-based knowledge, sharing policy experiences originating in the Global South, and disseminating this knowledge and experience among key stakeholders.
The SDGs must be translated into Swahili, which is crucial to ensure equal access of people in Tanzania to the content of the new agenda. Also, incorporating the SDGs into the national primary school curriculum using students to communicate aspects of SDGs with the communities, will make children agents of change and form an important component of the communication of the SDGs.
A successful communication strategy is one that brings about behavioural change in individuals, households, and communities.
It is important for Tanzania to understand the existing national data collection system and the gaps that exist in terms the capacity to capture SDG implementation in terms of knowledge, tools, and instruments which include financing. Also, since the SDGs emphasise the quality of service delivery, it is imperative to identify ways in which monitoring and evaluation of the quality of indicators will take place, alongside identifying the responsible institutions which are to take part in this process.
In the same vein, the United Nations has asserted that Tanzania is on the right course towards realising the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The UN Systems resident coordinator and UNDP resident representative to Tanzania, Alvaro Rodrigues,said this is thanks to laid-out policies.
Tanzania has made a tremendous start in implementing the goals and has been a key actor in implementing them…the country is still on the right track
Tanzania should therefore implement the SDGs through existing polices.
Which include the importance of democracy, quality health and education – along with a conducive environment for investment - as amongprerequisites for attaining the goals. Indeed there’s quite a journey left for the country. Set by the UN, the SDGs are a collection of 17 global interrelated goals with each having its own targets to achieve.
The total number of targets is 169 covering a broad range of social and economic development issues. These include poverty, hunger, health, education, climate change, gender equality, water, sanitation, energy, environment and social justice.
The SDGs were developed to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which ended in 2015.
Unlike the MDGs, the SDG framework does not distinguish between developed and developing nations. Rather, its goals apply to all countries.
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