Benin/The national monitoring and evaluation report on sustainable development for 2020 disseminated in Lokossa

The Directorate General for Coordination and Monitoring of Sustainable Development Goals (DGCS-ODD) proceeded on Tuesday, at the town hall of Lokossa, to the dissemination of the national report of monitoring and evaluation of sustainable development of the year 2020 at the local level, a report according to which Benin displays a growth of 3.8% in 2020.

For the first deputy mayor of the city of hope, Norbert Gangbédji, we cannot talk about development without indicators since he says, "who says indicators speaks of mathematical languages". According to him, for some time, Benin has been committed to the objectives of sustainable development and these SDGs, he said, "are declined in several programs or sectors in the evolution of the Beninese nation. For him, to ensure this evolution, it is urgent to stop and assess the path taken to see if Benin is moving towards the goal so programmed. It is in this, he said, "that we can measure ourselves against ourselves and against others.

For his part, the representative of the Director General of Coordination and Monitoring of the SDGs, Toussaint Todégnon, said that theFor his part, Toussaint Todégnon, representative of the Director General of Coordination and Monitoring of the SDGs, said that the exercise in which the DGCS-ODD took part was in line with one of the cardinal principles of the sustainable development goals. This exercise, he said, "consists in presenting to the people of Mono, the main content of the report on the implementation of the SDGs for the year 2020. According to this report, Benin has a growth of 3.8% in 2020, a growth that is lower than the initial forecast. This drop, explained the DGCS-ODD, is due to the consequences of the covid-19 pandemic which has had impacts on production, food security, the population's livelihood, education and especially health. Still speaking about the socio-economic situation in 2020, the report disseminated indicates that Benin is the 2nd best economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, a performance that was possible thanks to, on the one hand, the development of the economy and, on the other hand, the development of the economy of the country.This performance was possible thanks to the innovative strategy of managing the covid-19 pandemic on the one hand, and the recovery of economic activity in the second half of 2020 on the other.

In addition, several advances have been made in the implementation of the MDGs, including the continuation of the pilot phase of the health insurance component of the Arch project, with the care of 4 757 extremely poor people in 13 health zones, the granting of microcredits for the benefit of the poor, and the development of a national health system.In terms of prospects, the DGCS is planning to continue the pilot phase of the health insurance component of the Arch project with the care of 4,757 extremely poor people in thirteen health zones, and the granting of microcredits to 9,568 beneficiaries through the Alafia microcredit scheme.

In terms of prospects, the DGCS-OOD plans, among other things, to continue strengthening the coordination and monitoring of the implementation of the SDGs at the national and local levels and to accelerate the implementation of the SDGs, in particular through the financing of priority actions for the achievement of the SDGs.

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