Bangladesh: Voluntary National Reviews (VNR) 2020 – Accelerated action and transformative pathways: realizing the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development
Bangladesh is participating in the Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development in July 2020 for the second time after 2017. Hence, it was decided that both the
contents and process of VNRs 2020 would have more value addition than the earlier one.
In the initial stage of implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), following the Allocation of Business of the Government of Bangladesh, concerned Ministries/Divisions were assigned with the responsibility of implementing the targets of
SDGs tagging them as lead, co-lead or associate obligation. With a view to expediting the coordination mechanism, from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), a letter was issued delegating 17 Ministries/Divisions as the coordinating Ministries for 17 goals of SDGs whose responsibility would be to coordinate goalwise progress reporting.
To spearhead the process of VNRs preparation, a meeting of the ‘SDGs Implementation and Review Committee’ was held on 16th January 2020 headed by the Principal Coordinator (SDGs Affairs), PMO. The meeting was attended by all relevant Secretaries of concerned Ministries/Divisions, representatives of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Development Partners (DPs), Private Sector and Non-government Organizations (NGOs).
It was decided, among others, that all goalwise coordinating Ministries/Divisions would submit goal-wise progress report. It was also instructed that before submitting their goal-wise report, all goal-wise coordinating ministries/divisions would complete goal-wise consultations with relevant leads, co-leads, associates, NGOs, CSOs, private sector, academia, development partners, and relevant stakeholders and submit goal-wise report in prescribed format to the PMO and General Economics Division (GED) of the Bangladesh Planning Commission.
A letter was issued from the Statistics and Informatics Division (SID) to all focal points of SDGs of different Ministries/ Divisions/data producing agencies to provide the latest available data in the SDGs tracker (sdg.gov.bd) so that VNRs report can be prepared based on the
updated information.
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