Time For Change

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a UN initiative, are eight (8) international development goals and eighteen (18) targets that were established in September 2000. The MDGs were time-bound and were set to expire in 2015. As a result, seventeen (17) goals and one hundred and sixty-nine (169) targets, known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been designed by the UN to replace the MDGs once they become invalid. 

Ms Christine Evans-Klock, the UN Resident Coordinator, said that "the SDGs were global in nature and universally applicable unlike the MDGs which applied to only developing countries," and she also extolled Ghana for taking the required steps to ensure a smooth migration from the MDGs to the SDGs. Make sure you click here to read the full article.