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 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