THE United Nations (UN) yesterday says Zimbabwe has been lagging in meeting sustainable development goals (SDGs) since 2019 because of lack of financing frameworks necessary to meet set targets.
UN head of resident co-ordination office Ernest Mutanga said although there was progress in some areas, there was a recession and stagnation.
“A key issue, I think, that Zimbabwe needs to address is the question of financing for SDGs and one of the tools that we are meant to use is called the Integrated National Financing Programme, a combination of how both public and private resources that are domestic and international are combined to be able to deliver SDGs,” Mutanga said at a Press conference about the UN Summit for the future and its implications on Africa.
The upcoming summit is set for September 22 and 23 in New York, the United States.
“Zimbabwe has not developed that framework just yet. The second bit that we are still grappling with is the proper mainstreaming of SDGs in all the frameworks that Zimbabwe uses,” Mutanga said.
UN resident co-ordinator for Zimbabwe, Edward Kallon, said there was a need for more interventions to meet the SDG goals.
“For Africa, to put it in a broader perspective, as a whole, most targets are off-track and Africa remains home to 55% of the world’s population living below the poverty line,” Kallon said.
“Progress among the 50% of the targets of the sustainable development goals is weak and insufficient.”
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The SDGs are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and improve the lives and prospects of everyone, everywhere.
