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National sustainable development strategy in the offing

By Kofi Ahovi
The government through the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology (MEST) will this year develop a National Sustainable Development Strategy (NSDS) to sustain development in the country.

The objective of NSDS is to achieve economic growth through technological and sustained human development.

The establishment of the strategy will be spearheaded by the Ghana National Committee on Sustainable Development (GNCSD) which is an all-embracing forum with representatives from government, NGOs, the private sector and civil society to address sustainable development.

GNCSD is expected to improve the ground rules governing the strategy process by establishing coordination structures on political and administrative levels; and also by applying leadership and intra-governmental mechanisms of good governance to foster comprehensive results.

It will also identify requirement needed to improve synergies and plug gaps as well as communication and information systems to ensure regular flows of information concerning both the strategy and sustainable development between stakeholders.

The communication information strategy and system will influence the purpose and objectives of the NSDS, which will ensure regular, two-way flows of information concerning both the strategy process itself, and sustainable development, and effective dialogue between stakeholders.

The final version of the strategy will be approved by the Cabinet.

The Ghana’s Vision 2020 gave a strategic direction for national development over 25 years from 1996 to 2020. Its main goal was to transform the country from a poor, low-income country into a prosperous middle income country within a generation. The goals were expected to be accomplished through a series of medium-term development plans.

Chapter eight of Agenda 21of the United Nations calls on countries to adopt national strategies for sustainable development that should build upon and harmonize the various sectoral economic, social and environmental policies and plans that are operating in the country.

Five years later, the 1997 Special Session of the General Assembly again noted the importance of NSDS and set a target of 2002 for their formulation and elaboration.
In 2002, the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) urged States not only to take immediate steps to make progress in the formulation and elaboration of national strategies for sustainable development but also to begin their implementation by 2005.

In addition, integrating the principles of sustainable development into country policies and program is one of the targets contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration to reach the goal of environmental sustainability.

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