SDGs: Ghana Focuses on 5 Goals - President Mahama

Our Common Agenda and the SDGs

President Mahama orders crackdown on buildings without sanitation facilities

President John Dramani Mahama has directed all district assemblies across the country to withhold building permits for any construction that fails to include proper sanitation facilities, as part of intensified efforts to eliminate open defecation in Ghana. The President issued the directive during the launch of Ghana’s Voluntary National Report on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), stressing that enforcement of existing building regulati…

Maternal health must be prioritised – Veep shares Mahama’s SDG vision

Ghana has reaffirmed its commitment to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the official launch of its latest Voluntary National Review (VNR) Report. The event, held on Tuesday, July 8, was graced by President John Dramani Mahama and Vice President Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, alongside civil society organisations (CSOs) and key development stakeholders. Taking to her official Facebook page after the event, the Vice Pr…

SDGs: Ghana focuses on 5 goals - President Mahama

As part of the strategy to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Ghana will focus on five of the goals because of their multi-dimensional linkages to the other 17. “These five are decent work, basic education, sanitation and hygiene, energy efficiency and effective and strengthened institutions,” President John Dramani Mahama said. The President made this known in Accra yesterday when he launched the Voluntary National Review Report …