UN Sets Agenda For President Buhari
The United Nations (UN) on Tuesday set a development
agenda for President Muhammadu Buhari, with the management and
development of human resources as a priority.
The Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on MDGs, Hajiya Amina
Al-Zubair, gave the advice during an interactive session with newsmen
in Abuja.
Al-Zubair explained that the development of human resources, most
especially women and girls, was key to driving national development
goals.
She also recommended the strengthening of “inclusive governance’’ and
better a clarity of the funding and expenditure of the three tiers as
adopted by the president to provide good governance.
Besides, Al-Zubair advised Buhari to provide basic functional social
amenities and infrastructure to enhance the lives of citizens.
The aide also urged the president to curb corruption by blocking all the “leaking pipes’’ and improve security.
According to her, Nigeria has crisis in the education sector in spite
of the huge investments made by the government and development partners
over years.
While attributing the challenge to lack of genuine commitment,
facilities and infrastructure, she called for a new approach to achieve
desirable results.
The UN, Al-Zubair said, would adopt the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) on Sept. 21, as a new approach to tackling global development
issues.
She listed 17 goals that would drive the SDGs, including poverty
eradication, climate change issues and their impact, human resource
development, provision of quality infrastructure and social amenities.
Others are provision of sustainable management of water and
sanitation for all, inclusive education, achieve gender equality and
empower all and women girls as well as ensuring healthy lives for all at
all ages.
Similarly, Al-Zubair disclosed that the SDGs would also seek to
promote save and habitable environments, provision of “affordable,
reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all’’.
The SDGs, she added, would also seek to end hunger, achieve food
security and improved nutrition through agriculture and reduce
inequality within and among countries.
The aide said other goals would promote peaceful and inclusive
societies, access to justice, combat desertification and halt
biodiversity.
“Furthermore, the SDGs will strengthen the means of implementation
and revitalise the lobal partnership for sustainable development,’’ said
Al-Zubair.
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