National Development Plan Sample Clauses

National Development Plan. The Government’s National Priorities and Action Agenda (“PAA”) serves as the country’s national development strategy and integrates and prioritizes the action plans for economic development. The PAA is intended to more effectively link these plans with the Government’s medium-term investment program and annual budget. Moreover, the PAA has been subject to broad stakeholder consultation through public consultative workshops with the provincial governments, non-governmental organizations (“NGOs”), private sector, and civil society. The top two priorities in the latest PAA include: (i) “improving the lives of people in rural areas by improving service delivery, expanding market access to rural produce, lowering costs of credit and transportation, and ensuring sustainable use of natural resources;” and (ii) “raising private investment by lowering obstacles to growth of private enterprise including lowering costs of doing business, facilitating long-term secure access to land, and providing better support services to businesses.” The Program’s focus on transport infrastructure, with the goals of reducing transport costs of doing business and stimulating agricultural and tourism-based economic activity in the rural areas, is consistent with the key priorities contained in the PAA for reducing poverty and increasing economic growth.