Youth Advocates Ghana (YAG) in organization with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) have coordinated a Consultative Workshop to request the commitment of youngsters towards the Youth SDG's Report on the side of Ghana's Voluntary National Review (VNR).
The consultative studio united youngsters to talk about the systems, valuable open doors, holes and linkages in accomplishing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how youth support and consideration can assist with accomplishing the objectives.
Talking at the occasion, the Executive Director of Youth Advocates Ghana and the Convener of the African Youth SDG's Summit, Emmanuel Ametepey focused on the requirement for Civil Society associations (CSOs), Development accomplices and Government organizations to remember the young for the dynamic cycle since they are the dynamic and energetic populace whose thoughts can speed up reasonable turn of events.
"The VNR is significant as it permits us to keep tabs on our development towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Youth Advocates Ghana has forever been essential for the interaction and is focused on activating the adolescent to make a move in view of the standard of abandoning nobody," he added.
Mr Ametepey further asked the young to use open doors available to them for self-improvement and contribute genuinely to accomplishing advancement in their networks.
In her comments, the Planning Analyst at NDPC, Ms Patience Ampomah, urged youngsters to partake in drives that will prompt the accomplishment of the SDGs. She added that the adolescent report will help recognize and resolve issues influencing the young and illuminate focusing of techniques for execution.
"The adolescent comprise most of our populace and are the most affected by our improvement challenges. Subsequently, we should work with them to advance manageable turn of events.
"The VNR interaction gives a valuable chance to sharing encounters and companion learning among nations and has a remarkable story to tell with the lady Youth SDG Report," she added.
On his section, a Program Analyst at United Nations Population Fund, Ishmael Kwasi Selassie, featured the requirement for youngsters to take part in exercises and drives that are pointed toward tending to improvement challenges.
"The interest of youngsters is basic to accomplishing the SDGs. We should keep on assisting them with taking up positions of authority and have their voices heard in public advancement processes. We at UNFPA will keep on supporting youngsters to improve as a rendition of themselves and to assist their networks with developing," expressed Selassie.
The Voluntary National Review (VNR), is a cycle through which nations evaluate and introduce public headway made in executing the 2030 Agenda, including accomplishing its 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the vow to abandon nobody.
The current year's High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) themed "Working back better from the Covid illness (COVID-19) while propelling the full execution of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" will survey top to bottom the SDGs 4, 5, 14, 15 and 17.
Ghana introduced on the VNR in 2019 and is introducing for the second time in 2022. Key to the current year's VNR on Ghana is the integral expansion of the Youth SDGs Report, which will feature creative SDG-related mediations and survey youth status on the 'abandoning nobody' rule.
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