Efforts to achieve gender equality and inclusion are gaining momentum

General News on Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Source: ghananewsagency.org

2019-06-12

A national evaluation workshop to help member countries of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) it's open in Accra.

The goal is to help countries develop a broad framework to guide them in their efforts to achieve gender equality and inclusion.

The workshop, organized by UNESCO's Internal Oversight Service, is part of an initiative entitled "Putting Evaluation Within the Scope of Sustainable Development Goal 4" 4.

The SDG 4 (Target 5) focuses on the elimination of gender disparities in education, to ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for vulnerable people – persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations by 2030.

A global monitoring framework exists to inform UNESCO Member States of their goal of achieving SDG 4, but there is not yet a widely accepted evaluation framework that explains why they are located where they are located. find and how they can accelerate their progress towards achieving their goals. the SDGs.

Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, Deputy Minister of Education, noted that Ghana was one of the first countries to submit to a voluntary mechanism for peer review of the SDGs within the United Nations. United Nations and commended UNESCO for organizing the workshop to further discuss national framework means to improve the achievement of the SDG 4.5.

He stated that Ghana is fully committed to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Office of the Advisory Board on Sustainable Development Goals set up by the Presidency, as well as the specially created Ministry of Planning, which serves in particular to oversee the work of all other ministries, especially when it is SDG.

He said that considerable efforts had been made to prepare and validate the national voluntary report to ensure that all stakeholders had a say in Ghana's final report.

However, without a standard global badessment framework, this would risk advancing the country or underestimating its progress on sustainable development and failing to achieve the country's annual target for achieving these goals, he declares.

He congratulated UNESCO for taking the initiative to discuss the framework for evaluating work in progress in Ghana and in other countries with a view to reaching the SDO 4.5.

Dr. Adutwum also reiterated the government's commitment to women's and children's issues, adding that "the government will do its utmost to ensure the socio-economic development of all.

He said that access, quality and relevance were essential elements to achieve total education for all and emphasized the need to focus on training for children. ensure that no one is left behind.

To achieve this, the Ministry of Education is badured of its ability to develop policies and revise certain policies to ensure full inclusion, citing the increase in the number of people in the community. years of training in college from three to four. years as one of those efforts to build capacity to deal with problems.

Abdourahamane Diallo, UNESCO representative in Ghana, said the workshop had taken place as Ghana was reviewing its voluntary national report to ensure that no one was left behind.

He added that in order to tackle SDG 4.5, it was necessary to determine the extent to which each country's development program responded to the needs of women, including persons with disabilities.

He noted that the initiative had provoked a reaction, thus defeating the specific objective of SDG 4. 5.

He expressed the hope that the workshop would undoubtedly provide more information to the country from another perspective, particularly in the areas of gender education and the extent to which the education system meets the needs of vulnerable people. including people with disabilities, women, girls and children. innocent children.