Strategic Development Plan

1 Strategic Development Plan 2007 - 2011 iContents Chapter 1 Vision, Mission and Guiding Principles ..1 Vision: A peaceful, prosperous Fiji ..1 Peace, Unity and multi-racial harmony ..1 Prosperity for all ..2 Mission and Guiding International Commitments ..3 Consistent and Credible Policies ..4 Chapter 2 Review of Social Development ..5 Quality of The Human Development Index and Millennium Development Goals 5 Global Partnership for Development ..5 Poverty Alleviation.

2 6 Social Justice and Affirmative Action ..8 Rural and Outer Island Development ..9 Security ..10 Law and Housing ..15 Urban Development ..16 Health ..19 Education and Gender and Development ..23 Youth and Protection of Children ..24 Culture and Heritage ..25 Sports Disaster Mitigation and Management ..28 Chapter 3 Review of Economic Development ..30 Management of the Economy and Government.

3 30 Recent Developments ..30 Private Sector Public Sector Challenges ..33 Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Conditions in 2006 ..36 Fiscal Position in Sector Performance ..40 Sectoral Challenges and Opportunities ..40 Sugar ..41 Agriculture and Forestry ..44 Marine Mineral and Groundwater Land Resource Development and Management ..49 Tourism ..51 Manufacturing and Commerce ..52 Information and Telecommunications.

4 54 Financial Services ..55 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises ..57 Transport ..58 Energy ..61 Water and Sewerage ..62 Foreign Affairs and External Trade ..63 Employment, Productivity and the Labour Market ..64 Chapter 4 Medium Term Strategy : Maintaining Stability and Sustaining Growth . 66 Strategic Maintaining Stability ..68 Promoting peace and Enhancing security, law and order ..69 Alleviating poverty ..69 Strengthening good Reviewing the Resolving the agricultural land lease issue.

5 70 Implementing affirmative Sustaining Growth ..71 Macro-economic stability ..72 Restructuring to promote competition and efficiency ..72 Raising Export Earnings ..73 Raising investment levels for jobs and growth ..73 Rural and outer island Development ..74 Development Programmes and Donor Chapter 5 Macroeconomic Monetary Fiscal Summary and Key Performance Indicators ..79 Chapter 6 Restructuring the Public Sector.

6 81 The Need for Restructuring ..81 Civil Public Enterprises ..82 Restructuring Public Sector Structures ..84 Reorganisation ..84 Public Private Partnerships ..84 Privatisation ..85 Public Sector Investment Accelerated Restructuring Programme ..86 Public Sector Restructuring Plan ..87 Chapter 7 Social Development ..89 Poverty Alleviation ..89 Social Justice and Affirmative Action.

7 90 Rural and Outer Island Development ..92 Security ..93 Law and Environmental Housing ..97 Urban Development ..98 Health ..99 Education and Gender Equality and Women in Development ..102 Children and Culture and Heritage ..104 Sports Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management ..107 Chapter 8 Economic Sugar ..109 Agriculture and Forestry.

8 111 Marine Mineral and Groundwater Land Resource Development and Management ..114 Tourism ..115 Manufacturing and Commerce ..117 Information and Telecommunications ..118 Financial Services ..120 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises ..121 Transport ..123 Energy ..125 Water and Sewerage ..127 Foreign Affairs and External Trade ..128 Employment and Labour Market ..130 Chapter 9 Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation.

9 132 Vertical Horizontal Coordination ..133 Monitoring and Evaluation System ..134 Monitoring the Key Performance Indicators ..134 Timeline for Coordination ..135 Part 1 National Vision 1 Chapter 1 Vision, Mission and Guiding Principles Introduction The Strategic Development Plan (SDP) 2007-20011 for Fiji is the culmination of consultations with a wide range of stakeholders in the private sector, non-government organisations and Government. The plan draws extensively on the Manifesto of the Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua Party and consensus reached with the Fiji Labour Party on issues of national importance to the achievement of the Vision of a Peaceful and Prosperous Fiji.

10 Lessons learnt from the mid-term Review of the Strategic Development Plan 2003-2005, planning document released in November 2004, has contributed to Government s decision on this Strategic Development Plan for 2007 to 2011. The Vision which drives the Plan is described in this chapter, together with the Mission and Guiding Principles that Government will follow in implementing policies. The Vision is a statement of how Government would like Fiji to be. The Mission and Guiding Principles summarise the approach and philosophy that Government will take in designing and implementing policies to achieve the Vision.