SDGs series #2: Implementing SGDs in Tanzania: Prospects and Challenges

SGDs agenda is ambitious, with the aim of eliminating rather than reducing poverty – the “leave no one behind” notion. Goal 1 target 1.1 aims at reducing extreme poverty to all people everywhere by 2030. Poverty especially in rural Tanzania has been declining at a very low pace from 40.8% in 1991/92 to 33.3% in 2011/12 (7.5 percentage points decrease for 20 years). Inequalities are also huge. Thus, Tanzania has to make sequential prioritization and serious resource mobilization from domestic and international sources for its implementation.

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