CHAPTER I $-$ ?AFRICA: GLOBAL

PARTNERSHIPS, LOCAL IMPACT

The selected SDG Good Practices in this

chapter showcase how the integration of the

SDGs is taking place at all levels through

various multi $-$ stakeholder partnerships and

frameworks and with a common priority of

reaching the most vulnerable communities and

groups. In the most remote rural areas of South

Sudan, Community Based Animal Health

Workers $($ CAHWs $)($ p $.13)$ ?were trained to

provide quality and localized animal health

services as well as offered a cost $-$ efficient

solution to those hard to reach communities

that rely on livestock for survival. In Niger,

UNODC and their partners jointly launched a

project $($ p $.16)$ ?to strengthen criminal justice

systems in the country, providing legal aid to

detainees awaiting trials, with a gendersensitive approach, and prioritizing the

assistance to the most vulnerable groups in

prisons. This chapter also includes two

practices which originated in Africa, and then

expanded to other regions as a result of their

universality and replicability. Sightsavers $$

experience $($ p $.19)$ ?in many African countries

have demonstrated that Civil Society

Organizations can contribute to the Voluntary

National Review process and ensure that the

voices of the most vulnerable are included in

SDG implementation and follow $-$ up $.$ ?As a lowcost land restoration technique, Farmer

Managed Natural Regeneration $($ FMNR $)($ p $.22)$

has proved to be effective in reducing poverty,

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improving livelihoods, enhancing food security

and resilience, and has expanded to more than

twenty countries across the globe.