WEP represents CSOs in review SDG reporting Nigeria
WEP executive director Priscilla Achakpa
Women for Water Partnership member Women Environmental Programme (WEP) has been appointed to represent Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria in reviewing the roadmap for National Voluntary Reporting on implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030 in the country.
The appointment was announced by Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SSAP-SDGs), during the National Consultation Forum on the National Voluntary Report held in Abuja on April 25th.
WEP executive director Priscilla Achakpa in her Goodwill Message highlighted "the need for a more comprehensive coordination framework that promotes and supports coordinated organizing and includes Local Governments across the country." She also stressed that while "gender issues have been identified as critical to the achievement of national development goals, in Nigeria, at the moment, the legal and policy environment for the protection and empowerment of women is fragile and as a result, women and girls continue to experience to inequality and dis-empowerment."
The three key recommendations of civil society to the Nigerian government include:
Read the full speech of WEP executive director Priscilla Achakpa
Q&A National Voluntary Reporting
The appointment was announced by Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SSAP-SDGs), during the National Consultation Forum on the National Voluntary Report held in Abuja on April 25th.
WEP executive director Priscilla Achakpa in her Goodwill Message highlighted "the need for a more comprehensive coordination framework that promotes and supports coordinated organizing and includes Local Governments across the country." She also stressed that while "gender issues have been identified as critical to the achievement of national development goals, in Nigeria, at the moment, the legal and policy environment for the protection and empowerment of women is fragile and as a result, women and girls continue to experience to inequality and dis-empowerment."
The three key recommendations of civil society to the Nigerian government include:
- Create a platform for broad and regular exchange of information, analysis and experiences on progress towards the attainment of the SDGs amongst CSOs, private sector, government and other stakeholders as appropriate;
- Improve and strengthen engagement with the civil society advisory group on the SDGs including creating space for the advisory group to engage with the private sector forum with a view to evolving models for meaningful partnerships that can drive attainment of the SDGs.
- A coherent national data management system would be effective in mainstreaming the efforts and interventions of our development partners, and also enable the civil society carry out its task unencumbered. Strategically, capacity building on the Open Data concept is needed, especially for civil servants, CSOs, private sector and the media.
Read the full speech of WEP executive director Priscilla Achakpa
Q&A National Voluntary Reporting
