UN Guyana Annual Results Report 2022

Guyana’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) progress last year was spurred by programs and policies bolstered by an ‘SDG enabling’ budgetary framework.

In 2022, the UN operated in a national policy context that sought to balance the various opportunities and risks presented by natural resource wealth. Guyana’s long-term SDG investments in education, health, and infrastructure, combined with its responses to cost-of living and food security challenges (in coordination with its CARICOM partners) were all sources of great encouragement.

Through 2022, the UN benefited from the leadership of our national coordinating partner, the Ministry of Finance which, together with the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, led a review of the UN’s joint County Implementation Plan (CIP). That included scrutiny of our funding base and ways of working with line ministries and civil society. The exercise was particularly important to fully align the UN’s work with national policy frameworks, in step with the Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review (QCPR) recommendations.

Guyana’s civil society has shouldered much of the workload in achieving the results reported. In addition to the substantial implementation support of a number of civil society organisations, the UN has also benefited from strategic advice from the Civil Society National Reference Group (CSNRG) under the Spotlight Initiative (the largest investment ever in Gender -Based Violence, funded by the European Union) as well as the Guyana Council of Organizations for Persons with Disabilities (GCOPD) and the Guyana National Youth Council (GNYC).

In Guyana’s rapid growth context, our shared pledge to ‘Leave No One Behind’ took on additional significance. Through 2022 great steps were taken to further include and promote the role of young people, persons with disabilities, women, and children.