Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) will publish a new study every February to measure the government’s progress in implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), president of the agency Abou Bakr El-Gendy announced. He said an integrated approach to sustainable development is how best to reach these goals by 2030. At the “Sustainable Development 2030” conference on Sunday, El-Gendy said there are 17 main SDGs that Egypt has to achieve. At the United Nations general assembly in 2015, Egypt agreed to implement policies to address economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development in an integrated way. Maisa Shawky, an expert in National Population Council, said that previous development plans did not consider the population aspect, explaining that almost 80% of sustainable development depends on the people.

Source: Daily News Egypt December 04, 2016 16:38 UTC