Capacity Strengthening for the Parliamentary Group on Sustainable Development
On the 9th November 2018, Hon. Job Ndungai (MP) - Speaker of the Parliament of the United Republic of Tanzania, launched the Parliamentary Group on Sustainable Development, who remarked it as historic achievement for sustainable development advocacy on the parliamentary level, as the first ever organized platform for sustainable development.
The group is a voluntary parliamentary caucus, formed by 30 founding members who champion for Sustainable Development in the parliament. The group will join other similar groups in the parliamentary ranks championing different causes.
The group is an outcome of engagements by the Tanzania Sustainable Development Platform with Sustainable Development Champions. Members of the platform facilitated the launch and initial orientation of the group.
Why is the Parliamentary Group on Sustainable Development necessary?
Below are the key roles the group is set to perform:
- To ensure political commitment in domestication and implementation and implementation of sustainable development in Tanzania
- Facilitate integration, linkages, synergy and uptake of sustainable development and other international commitments by respective parliamentary committees
- Facilitate Multi-stakeholder engagements, partnerships and dialogues on sustainable development with the executive, donors, civil society organization, private sector and academia
- Ensuring cross-party collaboration on Sustainable Development
- Ensure people centered and inclusive sustainable development leaving no one behind
- Steer house debates and discussions in support of Sustainable Development
- Production of an annual report on sustainable development in Tanzania that will take stock of the progress, key achievements and challenges in achieving sustainable development in Tanzania
- Ensure balance and accountability in the three dimensions of sustainable
Development (social, economic, and environment) in government plans
Objectives of the Training
- To strengthen the capacity of the members of the parliamentary group on sustainable to broadly understand the concepts of sustainable development.
- To deepen the understanding of the synergies between national development plans, SDGs and Agenda 2063 among the members of the Parliamentary Sustainable Development group.
- To provide the Parliamentary Group on Sustainable development with tools necessary for follow up and monitoring of sustainable development implementation progress.
- To provide the members of the parliamentary group for sustainable development with analytical tools to conduct budget analysis on how sustainable development goals are reflected in national budgets.
- To create a draft constitution and a code of conduct for smooth operation of the group activities throughout 2021-2025.
- To share the available international and regional learning opportunities in order to strengthen their knowledge on SDGs.
- To share relevant learning materials such as Government & CSOs VNR report 2019, Tanzania SDGs Baseline Report 2017 and SDGs implementation, follow up and review in Tanzania 2017 Booklet for improving members of the group knowledge on SDGs.
Expected Output
- Improved understanding of the concepts of sustainable development (SDGs, Agenda 2063) by the 30 members of the parliamentary group on sustainable development.
- Increased dialogue on sustainable development priorities in the Parliament steered by members of the parliamentary group for sustainable development.
- The parliamentary group on sustainable development conducts its first analysis of the national budget of 2020/2021 on how the implementation of Sustainable Development priorities is mainstreamed in the main budget or sectorial budgets.
- To come up with the draft of the constitution and code of conduct
Mode of Delivery
Participatory facilitation approach will be applied to deliver the following sessions;
Sessions
- Understanding the concept of Sustainable Development Goals
- Linkages between the national development plans, SDGs and Agenda 2063
- The role of MPs in implementation, monitoring and review of SDGs
- Linkages between the national and sectors budget with SDGs implementation, monitoring and review.
- Group members prioritization of Goals, targets and interventions needed to contribute to achieving the SDGs
When and Where?
- The training will be conducted in Dodoma on 23rd to 25th April 2021.
Resources
The following will be required:
- Venue
- Stationery (flip charts, marker pens, sticking notes)
- Transport reimbursement
- Lunch and Refreshment
- Training materials
Monitoring and Evaluation
- There will be on-going monitoring of activities to ensure that the training has an impact to attendees in their day to day activities. PF and the TSDP will closely follow up with SDGs Parliamentary group on how SDGs matters are steered in the house debates.
The following M&E tools will be prepared and used during and after training:
- Attendance sheet
- Pre and Post- knowledge test
- End of the training evaluation