August 22, 2025
Understanding Eritrea’s Distinctive Development Vision
By: – Bana Negusse
Eritrea’s development story is too often told through the narrow lens of global benchmarks such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), or the African Union’s Agenda 2063. While these frameworks provide valuable points of comparison, they risk overlooking or misrepresenting the country’s own long-standing and distinctive approach to progress. Far from being a late or reluctant adopter of global priorities, Eritrea has, since well before independence in 1991, embedded the core principles of sustainable development – social justice, equality, human dignity, environmental stewardship, and shared prosperity – into its national vision and policy.
