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🇲🇿Happening now in beautiful Mozambique! 📍Localizing #SDGs and National Development Strategy Progress Through #VLRs in Mozambique 🪜VLRs have the potential to bolster multilevel governance in monitoring and planning for the #SDGs and ensure strategic and coherent policies Learn more about the workshop👉 https://lnkd.in/eUhCrgrX @ UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme), United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, PNUD Moçambique

My reflection in today’s Panel discussion on “Beyond Barriers” a research project on localization funded by the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA-USAID), As localization remains stagged in the global south and more so #Somalia is far behind seeing significant localization reality. More areas for improvement are but not limited to:- 1.    Push the localization Agenda from a higher level and have a unified position; Despite the desire and ambition of advocating for #Localization majority of the Somalia Donor Group doesn’t have clear and strategic guidance on ICR which is a major factor in the transformation desired for localization to prosper.   2.   The funding structure challenges – Donors' funding brackets are so high that automatically alienate NNGOs to apply due to the high threshold of the RFP, Thus a more realistic funding bracket of 5-10 million is ideal for National NGOs to apply directly.   3. Appetite for risk sharing   4.   Adoption of unified Due Diligence (DD) tools that is commonly accepted by donors and INGOs in Somalia in general, There is a SPAT assessment tool developed by the Somalia NGO Consortium, but that is subject to commitment to materialize its adaptation across the board. 

According to Benjamin Feit, putting the burden of managing USAID funding onto local organizations could distract from the true aim of localization: shifting power and agency to the groups development programs aim to support. #localization #opinion #USAID #development #local

Are SDGs the best development framework for Africa? By Morna Ikosa Several scholars have expressed a need to adapt radical post-development practices, which will serve as an alternative approach to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These approaches should serve the interests of indigenous people and countries in the global south, whose needs are often not considered in the SDG discourse.  https://lnkd.in/dGv92-bC #namibia #SDGs #development #Africa

The UN and its partners in Uganda work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: 17 interconnected and ambitious Goals that address the major development challenges faced by people in Uganda and around the world. The UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) 2021-2025 implemented by the UN in partnership with the Government and other stakeholders supports the Government achieve the objectives of the third National Development Plan (NDP III), Vision 2040 and the Sustainable Development Goals. https://lnkd.in/dadCyzXd