Youth Advocates Ghana (YAG) in partnership with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) have organised a Consultative Workshop to solicit the contribution of younger human beings in the direction of the Youth SDG’s Report in aid of Ghana’s Voluntary National Review (VNR).
The consultative workshop delivered younger human beings collectively to speak about the techniques, possibilities, gaps and linkages in accomplishing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the way kids participation and inclusion can assist reap the goals.
Speaking on the event, the Executive Director of Youth Advocates Ghana and the Convener of the African Youth SDG’s Summit, Emmanuel Ametepey burdened the want for Civil Society organizations (CSOs), Development companions and Government companies to consist of the kids withinside the decision-making method because they may be the lively and colourful populace whose thoughts can boost up sustainable improvement.
“The VNR is critical because it permits us to music our development in the direction of the Sustainable Development Goals. Youth Advocates Ghana has constantly been a part of the method and is devoted to mobilizing the kids to do so primarily based totally at the precept of leaving nobody behind,” he delivered.
Mr Ametepey in addition entreated the kids to leverage possibilities at their disposal for non-public increase and make contributions meaningfully to attaining improvement of their groups.
In her remarks, the Planning Analyst at NDPC, Ms Patience Ampomah, advocated younger human beings to take part in tasks to be able to cause the attainment of the SDGs. She delivered that the kids document will assist perceive and deal with troubles affecting the kids and tell focused on of techniques for implementation.
“The kids represent the bulk of our populace and are the maximum impacted through our improvement challenges. Therefore, we ought to paintings with them to sell sustainable improvement.
"The VNR method gives an possibility for sharing reports and peer mastering amongst nations and has a completely unique tale to inform with the maiden Youth SDG Report,” she delivered.
On his part, a Program Analyst at United Nations Population Fund, Ishmael Kwasi Selassie, highlighted the want for younger human beings to take part in sports and tasks which might be geared toward addressing improvement challenges.
“The participation of younger human beings is crucial to attaining the SDGs. We ought to keep to assist them absorb management roles and feature their voices heard in country wide improvement processes. We at UNFPA will keep to aid younger human beings to grow to be a higher model of themselves and to assist their groups grow,” said Selassie.
The Voluntary National Review (VNR), is a method thru which nations investigate and gift country wide development made in imposing the 2030 Agenda, together with attaining its 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the pledge to go away nobody behind.
This year’s High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) themed “Building lower back higher from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) whilst advancing the entire implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” will evaluation in-intensity the SDGs 4, 5, 14, 15 and 17.
Ghana provided at the VNR in 2019 and is providing for the second one time in 2022. Key to this year’s VNR on Ghana is the complementary addition of the Youth SDGs Report, on the way to spotlight revolutionary SDG-associated interventions and evaluation kids repute at the ‘leaving nobody behind' precept.