SDG Month - to increase awareness

Turkmenistan owns all 17 Sustainable Development Goals and nationalized 148 targets and 175 indicators. The country has the national structure to monitor the implementation of SDGs in country. The Ministry of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan is given the leading coordinating role for monitoring and national reporting. The Turkmen partners have gone through the MAPS exercise and identified priority areas for acceleration. The Government is aware that 84% of SDG targets are reflected in the national programs, plans and laws as a result of Rapid Integrated Assessment of national laws, policies and programs. There is an agreement between the UN and Government on the establishment of the SDG Platform that will ensure integration of the work of all UN agencies and national institutions in implementing, monitoring and reporting on the SDGs, including the preparation to the National Voluntary Review. And finally, there is the Training and Methodology Centre for Sustainable Development Goals that is becoming a platform for learning and increasing awareness of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development among public at large throughout the country. <br />
These are significant milestones reached in less than three years. In Turkmenistan, it was “thinking out of the box” approach in every stage of the nationalization of the 2030 Agenda that helped put all the above in place. <br />
First, this was possible because of the 2016 “Super March” national consultations. Civil servants, experts, academia, youth and civil society together with the UN reviewed all the Goals in the course of seventeen days to understand the extent to which they meet the national priorities. These consultations resulted in defining the national list of SDG goals, targets and indicators. <br />
Second, a series of joint UN-Government discussions and assessments around availability of data and existing methodologies to measure nationally adopted SDG indicators. Today, it is clear that Turkmenistan can report on 40-45% of SDG indicators. <br />
And third, developing partnership with the national Training and Methodology Center that conducts training, delivers lectures and is engaged in the development of methodology to teach Sustainable Development Goals among civil servants, students, NGOs and the private sector. Today more than 450 people have been covered with key messages on Agenda 2030.