TRANSFORMING GOVERNANCE FOR REALIZING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDG’S)

Ahmed Isa Waziri (Kano State Polytechnic)

This paper studies how the patterns and styles of governance changes from normal practice to a modernized style that will suits the attainment of the SDG’s. The objectives of this paper are to study and analyses the process of change of governance from usual practice to a anew style that will favor the realization of SDG’s and to identify major obstacles that will provide resistance to the new style. The methodology was drowned from primary and secondary data. Constructed questionnaires were distributed and oral interviews were conducted and the data collected were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) AMOS, 21.0. The study found that most of national governments lack policies that are deliberately created to provide support for the realization of SDG’s. The research also discovered that national governments lack implementation agencies that contain experts with the skills and knowledge of developmental projects. Most of government’s policy machineries make mistakes of mixing the SDG’s with the regular national goals which are usually obtained in regular ministries. In the end, the study recommends that for proper realization of SDG’s, national governments should create sub policies that will promote the realization of SDG’s. The research also recommends that the national governments should create new implementation agencies that can train experts on developmental programmes. These agencies will work hand in hand with government in collaboration with private sectors towards the realization of SDG’s.

KeyWords: Governance, Realization, SDG’s, Transforming.