District Level Workshop on ‘Building Capacities for Taking Forward the SDGs’ was held at Wokha today. The programme was chaired by District Planning Officer, P.Nchumbemo Kikon while dignitaries present included Deputy Commissioner, Wokha, Orenthung Lotha, Superintendent of Police Menangmeren and other district-level department officials.

While delivering the keynote address by Deputy Commissioner, he introduced the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and emphasized that there should be concentrated efforts by all stakeholders to bring about sustainable development. Climate Change is a global phenomenon that involves the loss of human lives and property thus we need concerned effort in order to bring sustainable development.

DC also stated that the root cause of climate change is due to human-induced greenhouse emissions, insufficient disaster risk management and undervaluing environmental causes and benefits in decision making.

He also highlighted the effect of climate change across the globe and in the Wokha district as well. For example, the drought-like situation in the district wherein many farmers is suffering due to human-induced activities that have caused climate change.

He mentioned that existing programmes such as Poshan Maa, which is being celebrated this month will help reduce malnutrition and anaemia among children. Even slogans of departments such as Water Resource as – ‘Catch the rains where it falls’ all efforts fall under the SDGs. He concluded by urging all departments to ensure that all policies and actions undertaken are carried out to protect the environment and to achieve the targets of the SDGs for inclusive development.

As part of this workshop, the first technical session was held by SDG Officer, SDG Coordination Centre, Planning & Coordination Department, Abilo Humtsoe on SDG localization and integration with a focus on Wokha District. She shared about the national, state and district level institutional mechanism and strategy for SDG implementation, District Indicator Framework for monitoring the SDGs and way forward. She also highlighted those indicators (as part of the North East Region SDG Index – Baseline Report 2021-22) which require improvement in the Wokha district.

Interactive Session was taken over by SDG Officer, SDG Coordination Centre, Planning & Coordination Department, Phyobemo Lotha. This session consisted of interactive exercises for identifying the priority areas and viable local level solutions for the Wokha district for all relevant departments.

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