Botswana to link SDG indicators to Vision 2036

Burton Mguni.PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Burton Mguni.PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

Deputy Statistician General, Burton Mguni says the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) indicators for Botswana should be linked to the aspirations and goals of National Development Plan 11 and the proposed Vision 2036.

Mguni was addressing local journalists last week at a press briefing organised by Statistics Botswana on the just-ended 47th United Nations Statistical Commission that was held in New York at the beginning of March.

He said the statistical commission agreed on a set of global indicators that will measure success towards the new sustainable development agenda, which will lead anti-poverty efforts through 2030.

Editor's Comment
BPF should get house in order

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...

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