Millennium DGs- Sustainable Development Goals

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the Global Development Goals will be serialized and discussed in this forum for the consumption of readers. The SDGs cover a wide range of issues that should form the basis of any country's development. The developmental index of any nation is measured on how far they have achieved the above index for their citizens. The following are the indices from which each country can measure their development. 1.Eradication of hunger. Has the country been able to provide enough food for her citizens. 2.Promoting good health. Has the country provided enough and affordable health care for her citizens. Are the citizens healthy in body and soul? 3.Quality Education. Do all her citizens have access to good and qualitative education? The answers to these questions will definitely define the focus of each country's development. Development must be citizen centred. This is why the United Nations graduated from the eight millennium development goals to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The lives of the citizens must reflect what is on ground. In other words the level of development the country has reached must reflect in her citizens. For instance, a country cannot say that they have achieved goal number 2 of providing good health where most of her citizens do not have access to good health care services. And a country could not be said to have achieved goal number 1 of eradicating hunger when up to 70% of its citizens are wallowing in poverty and cannot afford three square meals a day. The index of development is the quality of life of the citizens and this is why the United nations brought out these 17 sustainable goals to gauge how far the eight millennium development goals(already enumerated last time in my blog) has been achieved by each country. i have now started another series of discussion on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and we shall continue serializing the Goals until I have given you all the 17 SDGs. Goal number 4 is Gender equality. Has the country's allowed women the necessary freedom. Have they been given equal opportunity in education? This question may be answered in the positive in the case of Nigeria where many women are in the field of education. But have they been given equal opportunity in political affairs? Each country has to answer the above questions to gauge how far they have achieved goal 4 above. The series continues in my next post