Our Objectives and Strategies

 

Objectives

 

Strategies:

 

Objectives

There are four main objectives that reflect current global initiatives but are streamlined to address the peculiar needs of the State, viz:

  • Poverty reduction.

  • Wealth creation.

  • Employment generation.

  • Social security and stability.

Strategies:

There are four core strategies:-

 

Sustained capacity empowerment strategy:

The economic strength of any society is a direct function of the quality of its human resource. A key strategy for employment generation is thus an aggressive capacity empowerment scheme through a sustained investment in capacity building programmes; viz:

  • Knowledge acquisition seminars and workshops (e.g. in leadership skills, conflict resolution, peace-building and good governance, community electoral processes, nutrition and HIV/AIDS, life skills training, good parenting, gender mainstreaming, etc.)

  • Skills acquisition training and re-training/apprenticeship programmes.

  • Mobilization for national/international networking, confidence building.

Economic empowerment strategy:

Seventy percent of the abject poor are rural and engage in essential economic activities such as petty trading, fishing, farming, tailoring, soap manufacture, etc; all at subsistence level. They do not have the capital for facilitative equipment nor for bulk purchases which would enhance economic productivity and wealth creation, thus the desirability of economic empowerment schemes through:

  • Micro-credit loan schemes for rural women groups/cottage industries.

  • Equipment hire purchase/donation scheme;

  • Entrepreneurial training and support.

Social welfare and legal empowerment strategy:

Social security and stability is reflective of the positive direct impact of Government’s human face through human rights protection and the provision of welfare package schemes for the socially disadvantaged persons (SDPs):

  • Provision of mobility and special education aids, sponsored surgeries, etc to handicapped;

  • Legal aids, rehabilitative access, social integration support, etc. policy formulation, legislation and implementation.

Public/private/civil society partnership network:

Government will provide coordinative, facilitative and oversight functions while partnering with stakeholder civil society organizations for grassroots implementation and private sector/United Nations Agencies and others for donor funding, monitoring etc:

  • Establishment of a State gender economic main streaming critical mass will facilitate this process;

  • Production of partnerships document and website information for networking.

 

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