The National Planning Commission (NPC) is among Malawian institutions taking part at the 23rd United Nations (UN) Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA) at the UN headquarters in New York, United States of America. I
n the photos, NPC Director General Dr. Thomas Munthali is seen in one of the sessions where he, among other things, shared information on the strides around the principle of not leaving anybody behind in this last decade of action. He emphasized on four key lessons: Mainstreaming SDGs in national, sectoral and decentralised policies, strategies and programmes with emphasis on inclusivity and meeting SDGs as one of the two key milestones; investing in quality, disaggregated and harmonised data for identifying and defining targeted economic and social protection interventions for various vulnerable groups; investing in effective monitoring and evaluation systems and institutions to track progress; and finally, jointly with the UN family, defining an accelerator programme for each SDG in the UN sustainable development cooperation framework (2024-28), this being the last decade of action.
