Members of Parliament are asked to be involved in the negotiation process in new designed Sustainable Development Goals. MPs under the Uganda parliamentary forum on Millennium Development Goals said that these goals failed to be achieved 100% because they were not included from the start of this project.

The MPs, including Theodore Sekikubo, Grace Namara, Jacob Wangolo and Rosemary Nyakikongolo said that their involvement will help in having a local content in the goals and this will simplify the implementation process. They said that the problems faced by the developed countries are not similar to those faced by developing countries therefore targets must not be the same.

MPs said that Uganda failed to achieve millennium development goals simply because they lacked local content. They however called upon government to first evaluate the MDGS in order to see what went wrong during the implementation process and avoid committing the same mistakes.

The  vice chairperson of the parliamentary forum on MDG’s, Paula Turyahikayo, while commenting on the post 2015 agenda said that Corruption and failure by government to implement policies have been key in  the country’s failure to achieve MDGS. She said that government has put in place institutions and policies to fight corruption but implementation of these policies and making institutions function has been a challenge.

She also noted that parliament has come up with different resolutions and if those resolutions were to be implemented Uganda would have achieved most of the millennium development goals.

The world set 2015 to have achieved 8 MDGS and now they are planning to have 17 sustainable development goals.