Bala Yusuf Yunusa

Bala Yusuf Yunusa

Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs
Nigeria

My contributions

  • As the first country in the global South to have embarked on this process, we had the opportunity to present our experience at the July 2019 United Nations High Level Political Forum (HLPF) held in New York. The HLPF is a yearly meeting of UN member countries designed to support implementation and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

    To start with, I highlighted how the whole process of adopting the SDGs and launching an evaluation to improve our understanding of the “whys” and “hows” of meeting these goals is more a political, rather than a technocratic, endeavor. Any