The UNDP is focused on assisting Ghana to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through its development policies. Ms Welch made the pledge when she visited Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, on Monday at her office in Accra.

This was in a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency and issued by the Public Relations Department of the Ministry.  After updating the Minister on ongoing reforms at the United Nations (UN) Ms Welch expressed her Office’s gratitude to the Ministry for its support in the de-linking of the UN Resident Coordinator’s functions from the UNDP Resident Representative, making them two separate functions. 

The reforms, which took effect from January, 2019, had repositioned the UNDP as an integrator to facilitating the implementation of the SDGs, while contributing significantly to the efforts of the UN Development System for sustainable development.

Madam Botchwey commended the UNDP for its development interventions in Ghana and its commitment to reducing inequality across the globe.

She recounted the President’s national and global position in the implementation of the SDG’s and said: “Government, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, is open to any kind of assistance once it will be beneficial to its citizens”.

She called for further strengthening of the already existing relationship between Ghana and the UNDP for mutual benefits.