On 31 July, the Department for International Development (DFID) asked UKSSD to invite a small group of Measuring up authors to a meeting to explore its proposals for its report on the Sustainable Development Goals in 2019.
The meeting, hosted by the team responsible for the Governments implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), involved UKSSD stakeholders and members of the Bond NGO network.
At the meeting, Neil Briscoe, Deputy Director and Head of Global Partnerships Department at DFID confirmed that there is growing interest across the Government in the SDGs. Increased awareness within other departments is helping support better integration of the SDGs in Single Departmental Plans – the Governments main approach to implementing the SDGs. As we’ve previously highlighted, this is problematic so it’s positive that awareness is increasing, though the latest revision of the plans still fails to address our concerns in full.
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