Sustainable Development Goals

2030 Agenda For Sustainable Development

In September 2015, UN Member States inclusive of Botswana adopted a landmark agreement on a universal transformative agenda titled Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an agenda for people, planet and prosperity, which also ‘seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom.’ The new agenda is universal, it will be implemented by “all countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership”. The vision articulated in the 2030 agenda for a better world, free of poverty and what, will be achieved through the attainment of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and associated 169 targets forming an integral part of the agenda. The adoption of Agenda 2030 presents significant opportunities and prospects to the world.

Sustainable Development Goals

• End poverty in all its forms everywhere
• End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
• Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
• Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
• Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
• Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
• Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
• Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
• Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
• Reduce inequality within and among countries
• Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
• Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
• Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
• Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
• Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
• Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
• Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

Global Indicator Framework On The 2030 Agenda For Sustainable Development

The UN Statistical Commission at its forty- sixth session endorsed the formation of the Inter-Agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) to develop the global indicator framework. Over the past year, the IAEG –SDG members have worked very intensively, addressing a large number of thematic areas, consulting with the many parts of their national statistical systems and providing opportunities for all interested stakeholders to share their views and provide inputs. Botswana represented by Statistics Botswana is a member of the 28 member country Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals Indicators.

The global indicator framework on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, developed by the Inter Agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs): was approved by the UN Statistical Commission at its 47th session in March, 2016 in line with the General Assembly, resolution 70/1, Transforming our world. The global indicator framework has 230 indicators. The official document will be adopted thereafter by the Economic and Social Council and the UN General Assembly in September 2016.  The United Nations Statististics Commission agreed to the indicator framework as a practical starting point subject to future refinements made in conformity with the necessary UN mandates

Statistics Botswana planning and roll out of work on the implementation of this framework is going to continue to be discussed and done at virtually all the levels of the organisation and the entire National Statistical system. Mechanisms and strategies have been set in place to domesticate SDGs on Indicator and data alignment between NDP11, Vision 2036, Agenda 2063 and Agenda 2030 and agreement on preferred Botswana data flows and reporting periods

• Consult Stakeholders to adapt and prioritise SDGs indicators for Botswana and agree on data flow
• Continue IAEG membership
• Determine SDG baseline data
• Collaborate with Stakeholders to identify national capacity 
• Provide short, medium and long-term resource plans.
• Collaborate with Development  Partners on data availability and capacity initiatives.

Below Are The 2030 Approved Indicators:

Resolutions Reached At The 3rd Iaeg Meeting And Related Follow Up Actions By Statistics Botswana Are Summarised Below:

(i) Consultation by IAEG –SDGs of NSOs in their respective regions to group indicators in  3 Tiers as follows:

• A first tier for which an established methodology exists and data are already widely available (tier I);
• A second tier for which a methodology has been established but for which data are not easily available (tier II);
• A third tier for which an internationally agreed methodology has not yet been developed (tier III).

(ii) The IAEG created a sub-group on data disaggregation and 3 working groups to work on the 3 areas of SDMX, Geospatial information and Indicator framework inter linkages.

• Statistics Botswana has elected to be considered for membership of the data disaggregation subgroup and the SDMX and Geo-Spatial Information working groups. Statistics Botswana is shortly to request other NSOs in the region for their expression of interest in membership of the 3 working groups and thereafter to communicate accordingly to the UNSD.

(iii) Further  refinement of  the methodologies of each indicator and propose standards to be agreed at the international level with a view to guaranteeing international comparability

• Consultations by Statistics Botswana on the proposed refinements and proposed plan for reviews will be conducted internally and with stakeholders in Botswana as well as the NSOs in the region once the IAEG commences this work.

(iv) Establishment of baselines for tracking global trends in SDG indicators.

• The finalisation of the decision on the baseline year is expected to be made during 2016.

(v)Development of global reporting mechanisms and data flows on SDG indicators from the national to the global level.

• The reporting mechanisms will take on board the role that National Statistical Systems in various NSO. 

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