2020 is the decade of action, and it has to be a sprintHappy New Year, Kenya. 2020 marks a decade of action towards the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. This puts the conflict-prevention and development work of the UN at the heart of the agenda in East Africa, but in a multi-agency and programme environment, making meaningful progress is challenging. In a country team with over 23 individual agencies, funds and programmes, the reform process can be complicated, even messy. As a UN country team, we got off the blocks in 2019 in pursuit of UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed’s challenge to “flip the orthodoxy” for the repositioning of the UN.

Source: Standard Digital December 31, 2019 14:37 UTC