Take the MDGs to OP - consultant

For Botswana, the MDGs would be better placed at the Office of the President..
Addressing a two-day seminar in the outskirts of Gaborone for Botswana's needs assessment and costing exercise for achieving the MDGs, UNDP's Senior Policy Advisor Gana Rofang said "countries do not plan systematically to achieve the MDGs."

Rofang, who is based at the Regional Service Centre in Johannesburg, said African countries face unique structural constraints that hamper the continent from attaining the MDGs.