Uganda’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Report 2021 provides a national overview of progress on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, using the latest available data and estimates. It tracks the country’s progress towards the 17 Goals with in-depth analyses of selected indicators for each Goal.
Second in series, the aforementioned report focuses on African Governance Futures 2063 Scenarios through utilising future studies as its scientific platform. This report represents a collective effort that highlights rigorous, evidence-based research spanning a period of one year. Secondly, Africa can harness incoming changes and direct the trajectory of national, regional and global governance, economic development, and environmentally sustainable practices.
The analysis of the long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating actions in Africa indicates that there were more sovereign rating downgrades than upgrades. Five countries were downgraded and these included: Burkina Faso; Ghana; Mali; Namibia; and Tunisia – compared to only two upgrades that included Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Agenda 2063 is Africa’s development blueprint to achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development over a 50-year period. The continent aims to achieve this objective through the realisation of five ten-year implementation plans. The First Ten-Year Implementation Plan of Agenda 2063, spanning 2014 to 2023, outlines a set of goals, priority areas and targets that the continent aims to achieve at national, regional and continental levels.
The Annual Crime Reports does provide accountability to the Ugandan citizenry on how the Uganda Police Force is fulfilling its mandate as stipulated under Article 212 of the Constitution of Uganda. Generally, in the year 2021, there was a 0.1% increase in the volume of crimes reported to Police from 195,931 cases reported in the year 2020 to 196,081 cases in 2021.
The disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic pushed an estimated 55 million Africans into extreme poverty in 2020 and reversed more than two decades of progress in poverty reduction on the continent.
The disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic pushed an estimated 55 million Africans into extreme poverty in 2020 and reversed more than two decades of progress in poverty reduction on the continent.
