�Political unity must to accelerate growth�

CPD identifies 5 challenges for Bangladesh to attain SDGs

Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a civil society think tank said the development of Bangladesh would expedite rapidly if political unity would prevailed among the political parties. “The success of development started when democratic government came to power after 1990. The credit goes to all political parties those were in power during last 20 years for bringing success in development,” said CPD distinguish fellow Dr Debapriya Battacharjya. However, CPD has found five challenges facing Bangladesh in terms of implementation of its agenda of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “The challenges include integration in the national planning process; participation and accountability; financial and non-financial resources; data for monitoring; and an institutional mechanism for implementation,” said Dr Debapriya.
Dr Debapriya yesterday made a presentation on “agenda of sustainable development goals: implementation challenges for Bangladesh” at the BRAC centre in the city. Executive Director, CPD, Prof Mustafizura Rahman too spoke at the briefing. About SDGs, he said it was an ambitious global development partnership launched in the time of a challenging international environment. “Political will - global, regional and national - will be of critical essence. We need to have a strengthened accountability and legitimacy process,” he added.
Commenting on the SDGs agenda, Debapriya said, “It is not a very perfect agenda but expresses a global consensus in terms of high aspiration, based on fine political balance.” On the comparison between Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and SDGs, he said that SDGs were universal, transformative, inclusive and integrated and their attainment would require a strong and effective institutional mechanism that involved all stakeholders such as public representatives, the government, private sector, civil society, knowledge community, and development partners.
The CPD said an inter-ministerial body may be formed under the leadership of the Prime Minister’s Office. Referring to an ongoing CPD study, Debapriya said it had found that among 300 indicators proposed by UNSTatcom, data for nearly one-third of the indicators was not available for Bangladesh.
“Accessibility, quality and timeliness of data will be critical and fixing a reference year will be a challenge,” he noted.
SDGs were adopted by member states at the 70th session of the UN General Assembly on September 25, 2015 where 17 goals with 169 targets would come into effect on January 1, 2016 and would guide the international development agenda over the next 15 years.

�Political unity must to accelerate growth�

CPD identifies 5 challenges for Bangladesh to attain SDGs

Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a civil society think tank said the development of Bangladesh would expedite rapidly if political unity would prevailed among the political parties. The success of development started when democratic government came to power after 1990. The credit goes to all political parties those were in power during last 20 years for bringing success in development, said CPD distinguish fellow Dr Debapriya Battacharjya. However, CPD has found five challenges facing Bangladesh in terms of implementation of its agenda of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The challenges include integration in the national planning process; participation and accountability; financial and non-financial resources; data for monitoring; and an institutional mechanism for implementation, said Dr Debapriya. Dr Debapriya yesterday made a presentation on agenda of sustainable development goals: implementation challenges for Bangladesh at the BRAC centre in the city. Executive Director, CPD, Prof Mustafizura Rahman too spoke at the briefing. About SDGs, he said it was an ambitious global development partnership launched in the time of a challenging international environment. Political will - global, regional and national - will be of critical essence. We need to have a strengthened accountability and legitimacy process, he added. Commenting on the SDGs agenda, Debapriya said, It is not a very perfect agenda but expresses a global consensus in terms of high aspiration, based on fine political balance. On the comparison between Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and SDGs, he said that SDGs were universal, transformative, inclusive and integrated and their attainment would require a strong and effective institutional mechanism that involved all stakeholders such as public representatives, the government, private sector, civil society, knowledge community, and development partners. The CPD said an inter-ministerial body may be formed under the leadership of the Prime Ministers Office. Referring to an ongoing CPD study, Debapriya said it had found that among 300 indicators proposed by UNSTatcom, data for nearly one-third of the indicators was not available for Bangladesh. Accessibility, quality and timeliness of data will be critical and fixing a reference year will be a challenge, he noted. SDGs were adopted by member states at the 70th session of the UN General Assembly on September 25, 2015 where 17 goals with 169 targets would come into effect on January 1, 2016 and would guide the international development agenda over the next 15 years.