Introduction
From Guyana’s perspective, today’s column continues to focus on an evaluation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2015-2030, their 169 targets and 304 indicators of compliance, which are scheduled to be agreed upon by all 193 member states of the United Nations (UN) at their upcoming summit on September 25-27 this year. As previously indicated the Outcome Document for that summit has emerged from two separate, but related UN processes, in which Caricom (including Guyana) has played a significant part; namely, 1) the follow-up to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) process, which began in 2000 and will terminate at the end of this year; and 2) the follow-up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) held at Rio, Brazil in 2012. The inter-governmental open working group (OWG) established to prepare the Outcome Document for the upcoming summit finalized its work on August 2, which is entitled: ‘Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Global Action’.
Priorities
At its very inception, the OWG had set certain clear priorities for its work.
