Transcript COUNTRY UPDATE - The Millennium Project

COUNTRY UPDATE
THE GAMBIA
1. Status of national planning process
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VISION 2020 exists as the long term development
framework for the country to be operationalised through 3
MTP cycles
First Draft of a 5 year second generation PRSP/ (20062010) synchronized with Medium Term Plan (MTP):
• Final scheduled for end of March,
• Approval by cabinet and parliament scheduled for June
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• Donor round table for October but doubtful as there will
be general elections in October
MTEF for the period 2005 – 2008 available, but needs to
be aligned with the PRSP in the next budget cycle starting
January 2007.
Prioritizing PRSP sector investments programmes.
Set up and operationalise a National Planning Commission
(NPC) by January 2007 and nucleus of the NPC secretariat
to become operational by July 2006.
2. Next steps for costing the MDGs
Request for funds to support the MDG Needs
Assessment made through UNDP.
Using the localized MDG report 2005, efforts
underway to carry out diagnostic and identification
of interventions necessary to meet the MDG
targets:
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March 2006: Launch MDG Needs Assessment Exercise.
April 2006 :Training of Trainers
April – June 2006: Diagnosticis and identification of
intervention programmes.
July – August 2006: Costing intervention programmes
September 2006: Consolidate intervention reports
October – December 2006: Final report
3. Major Challenges
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Human & technical capacity constraints in
conducting the exercise.
Limited financial resources to carry out the
exercise
Quality of participation (bringing together
senior policy makers and relevant
stakeholders, including grass roots).
Limited coordination of donor activities.
Synchronizing sectoral and institutional needs
assessment issues
4. Expectations
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Technical and financial support from the
UNCT & Millennium Project (diagnostics,
training, costing and report writing)