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The Government says Uganda’s progress on the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) targets is 26% on track.

"At least 54% of targets are showing limited progress, and progress on 20% of the SDG targets is declining," Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja said Wednesday, March 20, 2024.

She revealed that in a bid to improve progress and to accelerate the implementation of the targets, there is a need for collective actions and co-operation between state and non-state actors to address some of the challenges facing the implementation.

Nabbanja identified some of the challenges as the slow transition from sector-based planning to the programme-based approach and gaps in data, which make it hard to assess performance.

Others include weak planning and budgeting for core projects; and limited financing for development.

Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja poses for a picture with H.E Upender Singh Rawat, High Commissioner of India to Uganda, Makerere University VC Prof Barnabas Nawangwe, Susan Ngongi-Namondo, UN Resident Coordinator and Nwanneakolam Vwede-Obahor, Resident Representative UNDP after the launch of the 2023/24 Human Development Report. (Photo by Mpalanyi Ssentongo)

She was speaking during the national launch of the 2023-2024 Human Development Report under the theme: Breaking the Gridlock: Reimagining Co-operation in a Polarised World.

Organised by the United Nations Development Programme, the event took place at Makerere University and was attended by several stakeholders including government officials, the civil society, academia and the general public.

SDGs aim to transform the world and are a call to action to end poverty and inequality, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy health, justice and prosperity.

They do so under the banner of leaving no one behind.

The targets were adopted in 2015 by all the countries in the United Nations under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the world.

The agenda sets out 17 Goals, which include 169 targets.

These wide-ranging and ambitious Goals interconnect.

For example, goal 3 is to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. But it is also cross-cutting, so that progress in its implementation contributes to progress towards other goals, and action on other goals in turn contributes to attaining goal 3.

 Most of the goals also have some direct health targets. All of them have indicators by which progress can be measured.