Belize's Renewed Commitment to Accelerating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Description of commitment
• Implementing the National Energy Policy, the National Land Use Policy, develop a comprehensive Industrial Strategy that integrates green and blue industrial policies, and increase investments in climate resilient infrastructure by 2026;
• Fostering a low carbon resilient development pathway and strengthen climate change adaptation and mitigation, achieve protection of 30% of marine space by 2026, including protection of 20% of the coral reef, implement our National Blue Economy Policy, we further commit to reducing land degradation through our Land Restoration Strategy, mitigate biodiversity loss via the Revised National Biodiversity Strategy, implement Integrated Water Resource Management approaches and foster agroforestry systems;
• By 2024, implement a National Risk Management Plan supplemented by disaster-specific strategies for hurricanes, floods and droughts.
• By 2025, finalize a Special Education Policy, implement Early Childhood Development Investment, expand adult remedial initiatives, skills training and upskilling;
• Approve, by 2024, a costed Social Protection Strategy, including the Social Protection Floor and accompanying institutional mechanisms;
• Implementing the National Agriculture and Food Policy and our Food System Pathway, including a School Feeding program;
• Implementing by 2025 our National Digital Agenda to modernize governance
• Adopting a revised National Strategy for Advancing Statistical Development by 2024 to enhance evidence -based decision-making.
National benchmark for reducing poverty and inequality by 2027
Belize commits to reducing poverty by 50% by 2030 in alignment with the fundamental principle of Leaving No One Behind.
Strengthening of national planning and institutional frameworks to support commitment
The Government of Belize will continue implementation of its Plan Belize Medium Term Development Strategy and to accelerate achievement of all SDGs will legally establish and resource an empowered Sustainable Development Department to coordinate the implementation of the SDGs across government.
Ares of strengthened institutional frameworks
Making SDG achievement a more central focus in national planning and oversight mechanisms, Strengthening the capacities of local and subnational governments to advance the SDGs , Rejuvenating and strengthening public sector institutions , Boosting transparency and access to information, Strengthening national statistical systems, Securing country-level data for the SDG targets
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