Tanzania's 2023 Voluntary National Review (VNR) Report on the Implementation of the 2023 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The United Republic of Tanzania (URT) presents its second Voluntary National Review (VNR) as part of the formal inter-governmental follow-up and review process of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. The Tanzania VNR report of 2023; underscores the successes, challenges and lessons learned for the period covering July 2019 to June 2023.
The Government subscribes to the full implementation of Agenda 2030 and has integrated all 17 SDGs into the national policy planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation cycles.
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SDGs Indicators in Brief June 2023
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were endorsed by the world leaders in September 2015 and officially launched since January 2016. Tanzania as one of the members of UN committed to implement SDGs by mainstreaming in its National Development Frameworks such as National Five-Year Development Plans II and III plus Sectoral Strategic Plan.
The SDGs commit countries to mobilize efforts to: end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change by 2030, while ensuring that no one is left behind.
The assessment of data availability for monitoring SDGs as of June 2023 indicated that about 55.2 percent of SDG indicators have data for reporting the progress. The data reported from different sources such as censuses, surveys and administrative or routine sources.
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Implementation Status of SDGs Indicators in Tanzania Framework
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Booklet 2019 provides important SDGs updates in regards to Agenda 2030 implementation in Tanzania. It contains brief statistical information for monitoring the progress of the SDGs which is in line with the implementation of the Tanzania National Five Year Development Plan (FYDP II) 2016/17-2020/21.
2020 Comprehensive Review for SDGs - by Dr Albina Chuwa
The 2020 Comprehensive Review for SDGs presentation was presented by NBS Tanzania Statistician General, Dr. Albina Chuwa during the Thirteen Annual Session of the African Union Committee of Directors General of the National Statistics Offices (CoDGs) in Tunisia November 2019.
Voluntary National Review (VNR) 2019 - Main Messages
UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA | |||
VOLUNTARY NATIONAL REVIEW 2019 | |||
MAIN MESSAGES | |||
The United Republic of Tanzania (Tanzania), comprising the Mainland and Zanzibar, embraces the achievement of high quality and sustainable human development for her citizens. This is engraved in the country’s Constitution and in her long-term development visions. There is a strong nation-wide partnership SDGs have been integrated into and are implemented |
Assessment of thematic goals shows that in delivering quality education, strong partnerships among the Government, non-state actors, and development partners exist. Primary level schooling is universal. Budgetary allocation for quality education delivery, especially training of teachers, has been increased. Regarding decent work and economic growth, sustained real high GDP growth at 6.7% is facilitating decent jobs and sustainable income creation, with average labour force participation rate at 83%. Innovative employment creation initiatives targeting entrepreneurship skills development, apprenticeship and technology and business incubator programmes, have been established. Efforts aimed at reducing inequalities include implementation of a strong productive social safety net programme. Increased access to mobile phones and rural electrification has promoted financial and economic inclusion |
Climate action interventions include setting up national carbon monitoring centres, and monitoring In terms of partnerships for the goals, reforms on the business environment and investment climate have expanded the scope for improving financing mechanisms, and opened innovative means of resource mobilisation. The main challenges in implementing SDGs revolve around data constrains for some indicators and insufficient technical and |
financial resources to tackle all hurdles that inhibit the implementation of SDGs. Solving these challenges entails: forging new partnerships for mobilising innovative sources of financing; capacity building in resource mobilisation and data management; strengthening national statistical capacity; and support for building appropriate technological capability (diffusion of new technologies, linking generators of innovations and users and providing technology based equipment for reporting on the environment). Preparation of this Voluntary National Review Report was inclusive and participatory, involving LGAs, members of Parliament and House of Representatives, Judiciary, CSOs, non-government organisations (NGOs), the private sector, development partners, academia, professional groups, labour associations, women and youth networks and the media. This reflects the participatory nature, strong partnerships and stakeholder commitments that underpin the implementation of national and global development goals. |