NPC receives 183 million for socio-economic development

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The National Planning Commission (NPC) has been allocated about N.dollars 183 million to implement key activities of the sixth national development plan (NDP6), vision 2030 and economic development.

Presenting the NPC 2022/23 budget of N.dollars 182 781 in Parliament on Monday, Minister in the Presidency, Christine //Hoebes, said the NDP6 was developed in a series of Vision 2030, following the end of NDP5 in March 2022, with interlinked developmental pillars which include economic recovery, transformation and resilience; human development and community resilience; sustainable development and green growth opportunities, as well as effective governance and public service delivery.

“It is worthy to note that NDP6 is the last plan in the journey towards realising Vision 2030 goals. Hence, it is proposed to cover the years 2023/24 to 2030/31,” she noted.

//Hoebes said that about N.dollars 13 million (12 774 000) has been allocated to regional and sectoral planning and policy coordination, aimed at ensuring that the NDPs are implemented and to further strengthen regional planning and coordinate the formular view of socio-economic public policies, to ensure consistency with national objectives and priorities as well as to evaluate policy effectiveness.

She indicated that N.dollars 29 million (N.dollars 29 019 000) is allocated to monitoring, evaluation and development partners coordination, aimed at mobilising, coordinating and managing external development resources, as well as to develop and maintain a national integrated monitoring and evaluation system for the whole of government.

//Hoebes further indicated that the supervision coordination and support services programme received about N.dollars 130 million (N.dollars 129 716 000) aimed at providing supervision, efficient administrative and support services, as well as provision and maintenance of ICT infrastructure and production of reliable statistics.

“It is under this programme that National Planning Commission provides

financial support to the Namibia Statistics Agency, with an amount of N.dollars 94 356 000 to perform its mandate,” she indicated.

Equally, she noted that N.dollars 11 million (N.dollars 11 272 000) has been allocated for the economic planning programme geared towards socio-economic development.

Source: The Namibian Press Agency