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Review of the National Development Plan 9 Is it MDG Based?. Botswana Presentation. Important national planning milestones. Vision 2016 Aspirations of the nation for the year 2016 which are more ambitious than the MDG goals National Development Plan 9 (NDP9) 2003-2008: 6 year plan
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Review of the National Development Plan 9Is it MDG Based? Botswana Presentation
Important national planning milestones • Vision 2016 • Aspirations of the nation for the year 2016 which are more ambitious than the MDG goals • National Development Plan 9 (NDP9) 2003-2008: 6 year plan • Mid term review 2005 • Annual Project Review • October of previous year • Budget Speech • February • National Poverty Reduction Strategy (NSPR) • Strategy itself is not time bound as a Policy document • However projects within the Strategy are to be implemented within the NDP 9 period
Is the NDP 9 MDG based? • Ambition • Its is based on Vision 2016 • Vision 2016 is well aligned with the MDGs and in fact is more ambitious than the MDGs
Scope: is NDP 9 aligned with all the MDGs? • It is aligned with the following goals: • Goal 1: Poverty and hunger (as per the NSPR) • Goal 2: Universal primary education (as per RNPE) • Goal 3: Gender inequality (as per SADC protocol on Gender) • Goal 4: Child mortality (as per NPP and NSF) • Goal 5: Maternal health (as per NPP and NSF) • Goal 6: HIV/AIDs, malaria and other diseases (as per HIV/AIDs policy) • Goal 7: Environment (Yes) • Goal 8: Global partnerships (yes in progress)
Rigor-are the targets substantiated with analysis of needed inputs? • Not done for all sectors • completed-environment, HIV/AIDS, education, Health • Some sector reviews ongoing e.g. gender, etc.
Timeframe-grounded in a long term assessment of needs? • Based on vision 2016 goals, NDP9(2003 – 2008) strategies, programmes and projects were target were formulated • Annual budget supports implementation of the NDP9
What are the major challenges? • Establish issues of: • Information availability • Data requirements to facilitate monitoring and evaluation • Qualitative research in all sectors • Time bound milestones and check points • Financing of the process of MDG based planning
What are the next steps • MDG audits of the NDP 9 • Identification of information requirements for an MDG based national plan • particularly in the area of poverty • Finalisation of Poverty Assessment • Preparation of a poverty map • Socio-economic database • Time series data on basic indicators • Needs assessment to determine the key financial and human resource needs in attainment of goals • Develop a sound monitoring and evaluation system for tracking progress towards attaining the goals