Millennium Development Goals in Kenya
Reporting on Millenium Development Goals
Countries are required to monitor and report on the MDGs and produce MDG reports. By the end of 2004, every developing country will be expected to have produced at least one such report in time for the UN Secretary-General's global comprehensive MDGs progress report to the General Assembly in 2005. These reports will support a dynamic campaign to help keep poverty issues front and centre of the national and global development agenda. Such reports are needed to keep the eyes of the world fixed on the MDGs. At the country level, the MDG report will help in engaging political leaders and top decision-makers, as well as mobilizing civil society, communities, the general public and the media. It will help provide a systematic and identifiable follow-up to the global conferences and world summits of the 1990s.
The MDG Report is a basic policy paper, which includes the basic developmental goals that the country is streaming towards achieving up till 2015. The report will be expected to include the kind of "change" needed to be achieved in the country within the overall framework of the MDGs. The various sets of MD Goals are to act as basic guidelines and indicators of "direction" as well as "magnitude" of the desired change. The MDG report will serve as an effective advocacy tool for raising awareness, building alliances as well as ensuring continuous governmental and societal commitment towards achievement of the declared Millennium Development Goals on the national arenas. The MDG report will capitalize on existing reports and will build on their findings and relevant achievements.
MDG report will also serve as the basic "benchmarks" for preparation of national executive developmental plans. In a clearly identified and measurable fashion, the report will provide decision makers and planners with numerically clear "starting points" representing the present socio-economic developmental status and "end points" representing the status desired to be achieved by 2015. Most importantly, the report will provide planners and decision makers with goals that are agreed upon by all stakeholders. Amid the rapidly evolving socio-economic situation in Kenya nothing can be more useful than a well-established and recognized developmental goals to which the country can dedicate itself to ensure commitment and continuity of all developmental efforts.
MDGs Background