Mandipa Ndlovu in webinar about tracking progress toward the SDGs in Southern Africa

In 2015, all United Nations member states adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). How to track progress toward these goals? Afrobarometer contributes to this challenging task by providing a little-heard perspective – that of the ordinary citizen in Africa – on progress toward 12 of the 17 SDGs. Newly developed Afrobarometer 'SDG Scorecards' highlight citizens’ experiences and evaluations of their country’s performance on democracy and governance, poverty, health, education, energy supply, water and sanitation, inequality, gender equity, and other SDG priorities that can be compared to official UN tracking indicators. 

On 31 August Afrobarometer presented the SDG scorecards for Botswana, eSwatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe in a webinar. ASCL PhD candidate Mandipa Ndlovu participated in the discussion, highlighting the huge numbers of unemployment in South Africa, and stressing that solutions for reaching the goals should indeed focus on young people. 

Check the SDG scorecards or watch the video of the webinar: