The Civil society in Malawi says the country might not achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 citing increased corruption and inadequate awareness.
The observation was made during the launch of a report on SDGs at Mid-point-2023 by the Civil society organizations led by Council for Non-Governmental Organizations and World Vision at Lilongwe Hotel on Tuesday.
Speaking after the meeting, Programme Officer for Congoma, Sayimon Sauzande said amongst the 17 goals, Malawi has not achieved anything citing a number of factors such as corruption and inadequate efforts on localization of the goals to ensure everyone knows what is supposed to be done towards the achievement by the year 2030.
“SDGs are global commitments that the government of Malawi made to end poverty in the country by the year 2030. To be honest, Malawi is not doing well. Almost every goal is not at par towards achieving any of them when we look at things on the ground.
“What is delaying the progress is too much corruption as well as less localization of the goals. We need to go deep in the villages so everyone knows what must be done to end poverty by the year 2030. This is why we came to launch the Mind-Point report so that we must emphasize on what we should do as a country so that we achieve by the year 2030,” said Sauzande.
He therefore called for collaborative effort between every Malawian to work together so that the goals are achieved to end poverty in Malawi by 2030.
World Vision Acting Country Director Pennia Mavedzenge said there is need for more collaborative efforts for Malawi, despite several challenges and disasters such as cyclone Freddy among others, that has delayed the country’s efforts to achieve the 2030 goals.
“Malawi is on track to achieve the SDGs but a lot needs to be done such as more collaborative efforts to pull resources that are available to realize the achievement. There are so many challenges which different Nations are facing and Malawi is not spared but through collaborative efforts the goals will be achieved,” said Mavedzenge.
Reported By Leonard Masauli
