Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria will realise the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), tagged United Nations’ Agenda 2030 and African Union’s (AU) Agenda 2063.
Osinbajo spoke in Abuja about the initiatives aimed at achieving the SDGs and ameliorating the impact of coronavirus on the economy.
Represented by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning Zainab Ahmed, Osinbajo spoke at the African Union Continental Capacity-Building Workshop on Africa’s Voluntary National Reviews (VNR) for 2022 High Level Political Forum (HLPF) and Domestication of Agenda 2063.”
The event was hosted by the Office of the Special Assistant to the President on SDGs, led by Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire and the Nigerian office of African Union Development Agency, New Partnership for African Development and African Peer Review Mechanism (AUDA-NEPAD/APRM), led by Princess Gloria Akobundu, in collaboration with other groups.
To achieve the SDGs,Osinbajo noted that “Nigeria has established six SDGs innovation hubs, one in each geo-political zone; this provides an opportunity for states to leverage and dialogue with stakeholders to accelerate innovative solutions, prioritising social protection as a tool to overcome bottlenecks and expanding financing options to accelerate achievement of SDGs in Nigeria’’.
“…since the adoption of AU Agenda 2063 and UN Agenda 2030, Nigeria has embarked on a process of domesticating these agendas at national and sub-national levels.
“Interestingly, the National Development Plan (NDP) 2021-2025 has strategies to achieve targets set under each of the goals in both agendas while capacities of policy makers are being strengthened to ensure their implementation in an integrated manner to facilitate an inclusive implementation processes across sectors.”
