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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Here’s what the AU’s African Capacity Building Foundation had to say on progress made by African countries in achieving SDGs in a recent report. The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) has published a very timely report on the progress \u2013 or lack of it \u2013 on the road to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals adopted in 2015. Baffour Ankomah reviews the report.<\/p>\n

Four years after world leaders adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets in September 2015, and called them \u2018Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development\u2019, the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), the African Union\u2019s specialised agency for capacity building on the continent, has issued a new report tracking Africa\u2019s progress on the road to 2030; as one would expect, the conclusion is a mixed bag.<\/p>\n

\u201cLife has improved for many Africans in the past 20 years,\u201d the report says, \u201cbut there is a growing sense that progress was slower than it could have been and that a business-as-usual approach is not likely to lead to the achievement of the African Union\u2019s Agenda 2063 or the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<\/p>\n

To determine what African countries need to do to promote inclusive, sustainable development within the context of the SDGs, the ACBF led a ground-breaking study that analysed Africa\u2019s capacities and identified areas for strengthening capacity and capacity-enabling approaches for a range of stakeholders, including international partners.<\/p>\n

The study led to the new report, titled Capacity Imperatives for the SDGS: In line with the African Union Agenda 2063. A brainchild of the ACBF Executive Secretary, Prof.<\/p>\n

Emmanuel Nnadozie, and executed by the ACBF\u2019s Knowledge and Learning Department, the report offers policymakers a new approach to development \u2013 one that puts Africans in the driver\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n

It shows how countries can improve people\u2019s lives in ways that are consistent with the ACBF\u2019s vision of an Africa capable of achieving its own development.<\/p>\n

Supported financially by ACBF member countries, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the World Bank, and produced in collaboration with and under guidance from the AU Commission, as well as other organisations including UNECA, NEPAD, AfDB and the UN system in Africa, the report was officially launched in Accra, Ghana, on 26 November at a ceremony presided over by Hon.<\/p>\n

Yaw Osafo-Marfo, Senior Minister of Ghana. Extensive survey
\nIn many ways, the report is a call to action by African countries. The study that informs it was carried out in 11 African countries \u2013 Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, and Zambia.<\/p>\n

They were drawn from Africa\u2019s five regions and represented different economy sizes, languages, and access to the sea. A key message of the report is that limited human and institutional capacity in Africa constitutes a serious obstacle to implementation of national development goals.<\/p>\n

Implementation agencies, sectors, and ministries often lack people with the skills they need to achieve results, and public resource allocation decisions are not always coherently determined.<\/p>\n

Most African countries also lack the political will to see national development strategies through to the end, involve too few non-state actors in decision making, fail to fully engage youth and women in implementing actions related to the SDGs, and rely too much on foreign financial support and technical assistance.<\/p>\n

Also, very little research addresses development challenges, while the alignment of planning and budgeting instruments with the priorities set forth in national development plans is limited.<\/p>\n

The report identifies the capacities that African countries need in order to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the SDGs to build economies that can sustain their development aspirations.<\/p>\n

It offers policymakers a new approach to development which seeks to re-energise Africans with the spirit of working together towards collective prosperity, a common destiny under a united and strong Africa, by building a set of transformative capacities that reinforce a new sense of identity and create a new culture of self-determination and results.<\/p>\n

Other key messages emerging from the report include:
\nDevelopmental goals, like those articulated in the SDGs and Agenda 2063, need to be integrated into both national development plans and shorter-term expenditure frameworks. That is where implementation of development projects actually takes place, as is evident in countries\u2019 budgeting and expenditure patterns.<\/p>\n

Government departments should recognise the need to increase private sector participation in the implementation of the SDGs, because the successful implementation and sustainability of development programmes rest on the full participation of stakeholders, including potential beneficiaries, academia, innovators, local communities, entrepreneurs, the business community, industrialists, financiers, investors, service providers, and women and youth groups.<\/p>\n

The report found that not all African governments see the SDGs as an opportunity to involve the private sector and other relevant stakeholders. It therefore recommends that additional efforts are needed to shift perceptions of the SDGs from solely a socioeconomic and developmental responsibility of governments to citizens to an opportunity to engage private business in achieving the goals.<\/p>\n

The private sector, too, needs to reorient its thinking, the report urges. \u201cBusinesses still see their involvement in development largely in the context of their corporate social responsibility activities,\u201d the report explains.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead, they need to see the SDGs as a business opportunity that reconciles the objectives of their core business activities and the developmental aspirations of the communities in which they live and do business.<\/p>\n

Africa\u2019s development partners have already made this shift in orientation, seeing development cooperation as a way to create business opportunities for the private sector in their own countries. Africa\u2019s private sector needs to do the same,\u201d the report advocates.<\/p>\n

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