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.

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