The National Development Plan (NDP) for 2013-2017 is the first medium-term plan prepared under the new Constitution of the country has long-term strategic framework established by the National Strategy called "Angola 2025" laying down the broad guidelines for the development of Angola, such as: guaranteeing the fundamental rights and freedoms and the development of civil society; ensuring the improvement of quality of life, fighting hunger and extreme poverty; promote sustainable, competitive and equitable development ensuring the future to generations to come; promote the development of science, and technology; developing the entrepreneurship and private sector (pag. 39). The objectives described in this Plan aim to: promote integrated and sustainable development of the agricultural sector by the exploitation of the potentiality of productive natural resources and the competitiveness of the sector in order to ensure food security and domestic supplies of regional and international markets in light of a gender sensitive approach (pag. 47). As specific priorities, it prescribes the following objectives: to develop a competitive agriculture based on the orientation of family production for the market and the relaunch of the entrepreneurship sector. To achieve self-sufficiency of basic foodstuffs, promoting a set of logistical infrastructures, trading and distribution network, enabling the realization of surplus production and supply throughout the territory of productive "inputs", actively contributing to the elimination of hunger and poverty and to the harmonious development of the territory (pag. 182). The Plan aims to promote an integrated and balanced strategies across the related sub-sectors for the development of agricultural, forestry and fisheries sectors by: rehabilitating and expanding the support infrastructures for agro-livestock production; encouraging agricultural associative and entrepreneurial practices; relaunching cash crops with potential profitability in the territory in order to improve farmers' income and national exports; reducing imports and contribute to the diversification of economic activity. To promote the practice of irrigation for increasing productivity and competitiveness of agriculture and as a means capable of effectively mitigate the effects of climate change. To strengthen agricultural research system as a tool for the technological and scientific development. To promote job creation, including in the tourism sector and contribute significantly to improve the income of family farms and for the relaunch of the agro-livestock production (pag. 91). It also establishes recovery programme for timber and non-timber products to promote the realization of wood processing and transport; contributing to sustainable development and ensuring the preservation of the environment and quality of life; promoting competitiveness and the development of industrial and artisanal fisheries in a sustainable way, contributing to the promotion of employment, in order to combat hunger and poverty and ensure food and nutrition security (pags. 92 and 93). The Plan also aims to take the following actions: create economic, social, cultural and political so that the family can perform its core function in society, based on social unity, with respect for their identity, unity, independence and traditional values. Promotion of human rights of women and equal opportunities and benefits for men and women in Angola (pag. 110); promote socio-economic development of rural and local communities, increasing significantly their welfare levels and contributing to improve the food security levels and poverty eradication of the Angolan population (pag. 112); actively contribute to poverty reduction through assistance to the most vulnerable groups for their social and productive reintegration (pag. 126); establish a new social risk management, where state intervention is designed to assist individuals, households and communities to better manage the risks they face and to support those who are in extreme poverty (pag. 135). This Plan enables commercial family- small- and medium-scale production and processing enterprises to sustainably participate in markets, through provisions of short and medium term market information and analysis, as well as reporting on impacts of trade policies on global and regional market indicators. This will be done through Priotity Clusters Creation Programme, developing sectors for creating dynamic comparative advantages able to sustain the position of Angola in the fields of production chains of added value, by conducting sectoral studies on value chains, particularly in the identified priority clusters: water, food, agro-industry, housing and transport and logistics; performing other sectoral studies on value chains by selecting sectors based on the criteria of job creation, meeting the basic needs of the population and relative contribution to the diversification of the economy; etc. The Plan aims at contributing to sustainable development ensuring the preservation of the environment and quality of life; implementing national programmes on climate change and environmental sanitation policies ensuring the quality of living; the management strategies of national parks, integrated nature reserves and conservation areas (pag. 102).
Angola · 2012-12-01