The Department of National Planning and Monitoring is hosting a workshop to update and localise the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The workshop held in Port Moresby started today and will end on Thursday.
The objective of the workshop is to gather feedbacks from different stakeholders on the SDGs indicators and their relevance sector’s planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting components.
Each of the United Nation’s 17 goals has specific targets to be achieved over the next 15 years.
Addressing critical sustainability issues such as poverty, climate change, inequality, economic development, and ecosystem protection, the SDGs will be implemented in all countries, across different territorial scales.
DNPM First Assistant Secretary Christine Aisole said the PNG Planning and Monitoring Responsibility Act 2016 was passed by Parliament to clarify the linkages and protocols in planning process and establish a development framework to complement existing laws.
“This Act does not legislate specific plans. It is intended to provide clarity and definitions to a process for the benefit of all stakeholders, government and non-government.
“Captures high level principles and lower level sectorial plans, international obligations like the new Sustainable Development Goals, together with the priorities of the Government of the day into the five-year MTDP with clear indications linked to annual budgets,” Aisole said.