The preparation of Uganda’s second National Development Plan coincided with the conceptualization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As a result, Uganda was one of the first countries in the world to align its national planning processes to the global Agenda 2030 and the SDGs. The NDPII was launched in mid-2015, only few months before the SDGs were adopted by world leaders at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in New York in September 2015, and the NDPII objectives are therefore to a large extend aligned with the SDGs. With the SDGs integrated into the NDPII, the Government is now working to further localize the goals at sectoral, and sub national levels in order to ensure effective implementation of the plan.
The SDGs build on the experiences with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while including new areas such as climate change, economic inequality, innovation, sustainable consumption, peace and justice, among other priorities. Uganda’s results on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were generally good, although progress was uneven across the goals. Most notably, as one of few South-Saharan African countries Uganda met the MDG target 1a of halving poverty between 1990 and 2015 – and ahead of schedule. Good progress was been made on access to HIV treatment, reducing the incidence of malaria and other major diseases. Meanwhile, progress on universal primary education, gender equality, and maternal health, the spread of HIV/AIDS, all of which are key aspects for human development was generally slow, and in some cases, reversed.
For more information, please read “Uganda – Our Constitution – Our Vision – Our SDGs”