Communicating the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana: An Examination of how the UNDP Communicate Implementation of the SDGs

Abstract

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also referred to as Agenda 2030 are were adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2015 with 193 countries as signatories which includes all the African countries. The goals also called the Global Goals came into effect in January 2016 and they seek to end poverty, protect our planet and ensure peace and prosperity for all nations by 2030. The goals were built upon the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which elapsed in 2015. The MDGs were an outcome of the UN Millennium Declaration in September 2000, which aimed at eradicating extreme poverty. The MDGs aimed to solve some of the most pressing development needs at the beginning of the millennium. They sought to bring to the forefront of the global agenda the urgency of the problems of poverty and other development challenges in a manner that is easy to understand and to track (Ghana Millennium Development Report, 2015, p. 16). The MDGs were endorsed by 189 UN member states in September, 2001. The MDGs cover the areas of the economy, health education, gender equality, environmental sustainability and partnership among countries.