SDG National Commitments Form: Submission #30

Title of commitment: South Sudan SDG Rescue Plan
Name of submitting Member State or Government: South Sudan
Please indicate whether your commitment is intended to address SDG Progress at a national, regional or global level: National
Please outline briefly the commitment(s) made in the areas outlined above :
Building from national priorities, South Sudan commits to pursue the below SDG targets to provide the optimum acceleration impact on other critical key national priority areas (including Food systems, Education, Health, Climate action). 

-	Target 16.6: Develop effective, accountable, and transparent institutions. The full articulation of 16.6 is “Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels”. 
-	Target 8.5: Full employment and decent work with equal pay. The full articulation of 8.5 is “by 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value”.
-	Target 9.2: Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization.  The full articulation of 9.2 is “by 2030, significantly raise industry’s share of employment and gross domestic product, in line with national circumstances, and double its share in least developed countries”.

In addition to the identified accelerators above, South Sudan will leverage existing national commitments from the Food Systems Summit (2021, 2023), the Transforming Education Summit (2022), Health Services and Climate and Security Action and flooding. South Sudan will focus on the below four priority areas in tandem with the above identified acceleration pathways to unlock the rapid and deep transitions needed to deliver the SDGs by 2030. 
-	Target 2.4: Sustainable food production and resilient agricultural practices. The full articulation of 2.4 is “ by 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality”.
-	Target 4.7 Learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development. The full articulation of 4.7 is “by 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development”.
-	Target 13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters.  The full articulation of 13.1 is “strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climaterelated hazards and natural disasters in all countries”.
-	Target 3.3: Fight communicable diseases. The full articulation of 3.3 is “ by 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases”. 


Does the commitment include a new national benchmark for reducing poverty and inequality by 2027? If yes, please indicate the benchmark below: :
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Please explain how national planning and institutional frameworks will be strengthened to support progress of the commitment: :
•	South Sudan will develop and establish a Dashboard for SDG Acceleration indicators that will tell whether the country is making progress and to inform any corrective action. The custodian of the Dashboard for SDG Acceleration will be the Ministry of Finance and Planning. See annex 1 for identified accelerator SDG targets and indicators.
•	South Sudan will undertake survey and analysis to inform monitoring and tracking progress on the SDG accelerators, including Economic Census, Educational Census, Health Statistics, Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, Labour Force Survey, Population Census, Household Income and Expenditure Survey). 
•	Additionally, Government will establish accountability framework including appointing a high-level political champion for SDGs acceleration in the country. 
•	South Sudan will undertake the country’s first VNR in 2024
•	South Sudan will ensure a well-functioning Sector working groups to coordinate the implementation of the selected SDG accelerators.


Which of the following, if any do your strengthened institutional frameworks seek to address?: 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 , Strengthening national statistical systems, Securing country-level data for the SDG targets
If you have any further information to share please upload the information here, or provide a link to applicable site or document below: https://sdgs.un.org/system/files/webform/sdg_national_commitments_form/21920/south-sudan-sdg-rescue-plan.pdf
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Please provide the full name, title and email address of contact person::
1. Maxwell Melingasuk Loboka, Director Macroeconomics and Aid Coordination,  Ministry of Finance and Planning, maxwell.loboka@mofp.gov.ss; melingasukloboka@gmail.com
2. George Kwamina Otoo, Head of RCO/Strategic Planner, UN Development System in South Sudan,  george.otoo@un.org
3. Godfrey Alumai, Development Coordination Specialist,  UN Development System in South Sudan, godfrey.alumai@un.org
4. Amb. Natalina Edward Mou, Director International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, +211924133709

Please provide the official email address of your country’s Permanent Mission in New York, for verification purposes.: akueibmalwal@gmail.com
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