SUSTAINABLE WATCH

Sustainability Watch is a network of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Africa, Asia and Latin America, working to promote governmental accountability for sustainable development, through ongoing qualitative monitoring and constructive dialogue at the national and international levels.

Sustainability Watch focuses on the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the context of monitoring the implementation of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation. By doing so, Sustainability Watch seeks to increase Southern civil-society networks’ ability to engage more efficiently in advocacy for pro-poor sustainable development

Sustainability watch Kenya is a network composed of CSO’s engaged in varied thematic issues contributing towards sustainable development; they are spread all over the country with sub-national chapters based in all the eight provinces. Its main goal is to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation on the national level by using indicators of MDG 1, 7 and 8 as analytical tools (including the linkages between environment, poverty and governance/capacity).

Goal
Different sectors are mobilized to improve the quality of life and to eradicate poverty in Kenya

Objectives
The network’s main objective is to widen the national platform through participation of the existing networks and in the establishment of new linkages/partnerships among network/forum members in order to strengthen joint decision making for effective implementation of MDGs, NEPAD, WSSD outcomes, EMCA, PRSP, ERS in Kenya.

1) To create awareness on national, regional and international instruments i.e. EMCA, PRSP’s, NEPAD, WSSD outcomes and MDGs.

2) To strengthen and develop capacity of the network, participating CSO’s and Local communities to advocate for the attainment of MDGs and sustainable development.

3) To Lobby and advocate for inclusion, integration and implementation of Sustainable Development principles in our national policies, legislation and programmes