QUETTA:Pakistan Development Alliance’s National Secretariat/ AwazCDS-Pakistan and PDA Provincial Lead Water Environment and Sanitation Society (WESS) organized a consultation on Citizens and Provincial Government Priority Framework on SDGs here on Thursday.
Apart from Parliamentarians and SDGs Task Force Members, the consultation was attended by representatives from SDGs Support Unit, Health Department, Education Department, Social Welfare, Women development, human rights departments, BCSW, CSOs, Media, academics, young people and marginalized groups, that is, TGs, PWDs and religious minorities.
In this important consultation, AwazCDS-Pakistan launched the SDGs Scorecard results to share the key findings in terms of citizens perception on the progress and priorities of the SDGs goals in Balochistan. As compared to other provinces, regions of Balochistan are much behind in education and health, therefore, the citizens of Balochistan prioritized SDG 4 (quality education), SDG 3 (good health and wellbeing) and SDG1 (no poverty) at the top priority and demanded of the government to invest more on education, better health and poverty alleviation.
Ziaur Rehman-National Convener, Pakistan Development Alliance/ Chief Executive AwazCDS-Pakistan has reinforced for accelerating the process of SDGs Provincial priority framework and aligning governments priority framework with the Citizens Priority Framework to improve the status of the masses.
Earlier, the government of Balochistan had promised to prepare and implement SDGs priority framework, however, even after the passage of five years since the adoption of SDGs, no priority framework has yet been prioritized. The consultation was coordinated by Water Environment and Sanitation Society (WESS).