Lokossa – The General Directorate for the Coordination and Monitoring of Sustainable Development Goals (DGCS-ODD) proceeded Tuesday, at the town hall of Lokossa, to the dissemination of the national report of monitoring and evaluation of sustainable development of the year 2020 at the local level, a report according to which Benin shows a growth of 3.8% in 2020.
For the first deputy mayor of the city of hope, Norbert Gangbédji, today we cannot speak of development without indicators since, he specifies, “who says indicators speaks of mathematical languages”. According to him, for some time, Benin has been committed to the objectives of sustainable development and these SDGs, he underlines, “are broken down into several programs or sectors in the evolution of the Beninese nation”. For him, to ensure this development, he urgently needs to stop to appreciate the road traveled to see if Benin is moving towards the goal so programmed. It is in this, he says, “that we can measure ourselves against ourselves and against others.”
For his part, the representative of the Director General of the coordination and monitoring of the SDGs, Toussaint Todégnon, suggested that the exercise to which the DGCS-ODD has taken place is in line with one of the cardinal principles of the objectives. sustainable development. This exercise, he specifies, “consists in presenting to the populations of Mono, the main content of the monitoring report of the implementation of the SDGs for the year 2020. According to this report, Benin displays a 3.8% growth in 2020, down from the initial forecast. This decrease, explained the DGCS-ODD, is due to the consequences of the covid-19 pandemic which has had impacts on production, food security, the livelihoods of the population, education and especially health. . Still talking about the socio-economic situation in 2020,
In addition, in the implementation of the SDGs, several progress has been made and it is in this case the continuation of the pilot phase of the health insurance component of the Arch project with the support of 4,757 extreme poor in thirteen health zones, the granting of microcredits for the benefit of the poor and excluded from the financial system through mobile telephone operators to 9,568 beneficiaries through the alafia microcredit.
In terms of prospects, the DGCS-OOD plans, among other things, to continue strengthening the coordination and monitoring of the implementation of the SDGs at the national and local level and accelerate the implementation of the SDGs, in particular through the funding of priority actions. for the achievement of the SDGs.
Source: Agence Bénin Presse