Fully supportive
This column is the last in a series of nine successive columns devoted to addressing the United Nations (UN) Post-2015 Development Agenda and its related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It focuses on operational and implementation concerns that I have hinted at, if the SDGs were to become the framework for promoting Guyana (and Caricom’s) long-term development.
In the previous two columns I had discussed another concern, which was the unenthusiastic manner in which the framing/designing of the SDGs at the global UN level, has entered into local discussions of Guyana’s long-term development, by all the key stakeholders: resident UN offices, lead line-ministries, and civil society organisations. Nonetheless, as previously indicated, despite these concerns I remain fully supportive of the SDGs as an effective framework for promoting Guyana (and Caricom’s) long-term development. I believe there is a clear strategic advantage to Guyana’s enthusiastic embrace of the SDGs at this point in time, particularly given that it is a small state, with a recently elected government that is facing illegal territorial claims.
Caricom (Guyana): specific concerns
While I have several operational and implementation concerns, space only allows for
