The Planning and Development Ministry has partnered with the United Nations (UN) on the multi-country development co-operation framework (MSDCF).
A statement today from Planning Minister Pennelope Beckles explained that stakeholders convened on August 23, for the first 2023 meeting of the joint national steering committee (JNSSC) of the MSDCF.
This co-operation framework has a five year timeline which began in 2022 and is expected to end in 2026.
It seeks to connect the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) with Trinidad and Tobago’s national development strategies, through a country implementation plan (CIP).
Beckles further noted that this has benefitted from a number of initiatives under the MSDF and CIP, citing that this included photovoltaic installations at 12 sites across the country, assessment of supply chain digitisation, farm certification, implementation of a logistics management information system for medicine supply chains and technology upgrade at the Piarco International Airport to detect and intercept drugs.
Under this framework, this country is also expected to modernise its statistical ecosystem through enhanced SDG data development.
Hence, one of the key outputs of this project will be an interactive SDG digital data repository platform that will bring together data from various datasets, portals and sectors to one common place.
“The initiative will aim to create a single, unified, technology-driven tool, to amalgamate sub-national data, in order to act as a guide for all development initiatives in the country,” Beckles added.
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