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By Patience Gbeze / Abena Sika Otchere, RNG
Accra, June 11, GNA – A National Assessment
workshop to help accelerate progress toward achieving sustainable development
Development Goals (SDGs) by UN Member States
An organization for education, science and culture (UNESCO) opened in Accra.
The aim is to help countries to develop
a broad framework to guide them in their efforts to achieve gender equality and
inclusion.
The workshop, organized by the UNESCO Secretariat
Supervision, is part of an initiative called "Making Evaluation Work Effectively for
ODD 4 Target 5 ".
SDG 4 (Target 5) focuses on the elimination of
gender disparities in education to ensure equal access to all levels of education.
education and vocational training of vulnerable people – people
disabled, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations by year
2030.
Although a global monitoring framework exists
to inform UNESCO Member States of their position on the road to achieving the objectives
SDG 4, there is still no widely accepted evaluation framework that indicates
why they stand where they are and how they can accelerate their progress
towards the achievement of the SDGs.
Yaw Osei Adutwum, Deputy Minister of
Education, noted that Ghana was one of the first countries to strive to
Voluntary peer review mechanism of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and congratulated
UNESCO for organizing this workshop to discuss further ways to develop
national framework to improve the achievement of the SDG 4.5.
He said that Ghana is fully committed to
meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and the Advisory Group Office of Sustainable Development Offices set up by the Chair
as well as a specially created Ministry of Planning, which, among other things,
oversees the work of all other departments, especially when it comes to
concerns SDG.
He said that considerable efforts have been made in the
preparation of the national voluntary report and its validation to ensure that all
Stakeholders have a say in everything Ghana finally reports.
However, without a global standard
evaluation framework, it would risk seeing the progress of the country or underestimating its
progress towards the SDGs and perhaps not serving the right annual target in the
towards these goals, he said.
He congratulated UNESCO for the initiative to
discuss the framework for evaluating ongoing work in Ghana and other
country towards the SDGs 4.5.
Dr. Adutwum also reiterated the Government
commitment to women's and children's issues, adding that
will do its utmost to ensure the socio-economic development of all.
He said that access, quality and relevance are
key to total education for all and emphasized the need to focus on
on training to make sure no one is left behind.
He said that to achieve this, the Ministry of
Education ensured that they had the capacity to adopt policies and
examine some to ensure full inclusion, citing the increase in the number of
years of college education training three to four years as a
one of those efforts to build capacity to deal with problems.
Abdourahamane Diallo, representative of UNESCO
in Ghana, said that the workshop took place as Ghana reviews its
voluntary national report to ensure that no one is left behind.
He said that we had to tackle the SDG 4. 5, there was the
need to discuss the quality of each country's development agenda
the needs of women, including people with disabilities.
He noted that the initiative had been a great success
response, so as to outpace the specific target targeted in relation to the SDG 4. 5.
He expressed the hope that the workshop
would undoubtedly provide more returns to another country
perspective, especially in the areas of women's education, how much
education system meets the needs of vulnerable people, including
disabled people, women, girls and innocent children.
GNA
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