The Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GoIRA) is deeply committed to attaining the SDGs. With the council of minister’s decision of 7th October 2015, the Ministry of Economy (MoEc) has been designated as the lead ministry and focal point for SDGs and assigned to take lead in coordinating, planning, monitoring and reporting on SDGs for the GOIRA. Besides that, Ministry of economy had the lead on the MDGs implementation in Afghanistan as well.
What does an afghan family need? a clean and healthy environment for children to grow up, a chance to work and earn stable income, to start new businesses and take part in economic growth, a home life free of hunger, violence and discrimination.
“My country from my own eyes” photo contest helped the people to discuss on SDGs and record the role of Afghanistan in implementing these goals.
Photo contests are among viral and engaging campaigns that has been very successful in various fields. the Ministry of Economics of Afghanistan have conducted a country wide photo contest
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The SDGs awareness workshop held in the MoEC, the High Impact Community Development Project (HICDP) staff in the MoEC and the representatives from the sectoral ministries participated in the workshop
The two days A-SDGs targets and indicates prioritization workshop opened at the Afghanistan Ministry of Economy (MoEC) on 19th February 2019, The 3rd working group under the SDGs Executive Committee and officials from the MoEC participated at the workshop for the first day.
Despite some improvements, leadership positions across the board are still held by men, and the economic gender gap is widening, thanks to outdated attitudes and entrenched male chauvinism.
6 September 2016 – Haoliang Xu, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director for Asia-Pacific and Chair of the Regional UN Development Group,….
In September 2015 Heads of State and Government agreed to set the world on a path towards sustainable development through the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This agenda includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 169 targets and 217 indicators, which set out quantitative objectives across the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, all to be achieved by 2030.
The SDGs benefited from the valuable lessons learned from the MDGs (2000-2015). These also carry forward the unfinished
