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Cabo Verde
Lessons Learned & Best Practices
Issue: Leaving no one behind
Finding: The VNR identifies individual and collective barriers based on structural, institutional or cultural bias, and nine groups most at risk of being left behind: extremely poor, Not in Education, Employment, or Training youth, elderly, people with disability, immigrants, prisoners, children and adolescents at risk, sexual minorities, highlighting how those groups and women and girls face intersectional risks.
The VNR identifies those groups' immediate, underlying, and structural causes of vulnerability and presents ongoing and to- be- developed government commitments to address them to guarantee full access to their rights for all the population.
Issue: Institutional Setup
Finding: Cabo Verde defined its SDG implementation national governance on lessons learned during the years of the Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015), underscoring the importance of creating a permanent mechanism to implement and follow up on progress. The report points out that institutionalization should not jeopardize national Public Administration by putting pressure on its resources and capabilities. Consequently, the country opted for a small, inclusive, and high-level led mechanism comprised of representatives from key ministries, parliament, local governments, civil society, the private sector, and academia in one main political orientation body, supported by the National Planning Directorate’s technical capacities.
