This article is a sequel to the one published in the June 8 edition of The New Times on the transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which focused more on the lessons that have been learnt from the processes leading up to the introduction of the MDGs in September 2000 and their implementation through to today. With the imminent launching of the SDGs at the next UN General Assembly in September 2015, such lesson learning is essential as it could contribute significantly to enhancing the chances of greater ownership by all the stakeholders of the Post-2015 agenda and thus much better implementation of the SDGs and higher chances for the realisation of the underlying objectives for their introduction compared to the MDGs.
We have noted in the article that indeed this time around, there has been demonstrated political will to learn those lessons and put them to good effect in the formulation of the SDGs, starting with mass sensitisation of people across the world over the past two and a half years to the incoming global development agenda and affording them the opportunity to actually contribute to shaping it.
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