The Seventh Five-Year National Socio-Economic Development Plan (2011-2015).

The Seventh Five-year National Socio-Economic Development Plan (2011-2015) is a national multi-sectoral plan that sets out the goals for social and economic development of the country for the period 2011-2015. The Plan aims to reach sufficient food production to meet demands by 2015 and sets a number of indicators to measure the production of rice, meat and fish, corn, vegetables, fruits, grain and livestock through a number of programmes and focused projects by application of modern techniques and technologies to raise productivity, revising sources of funds and tax policy, production, processing and marketing, as well as personnel development and training.
Agricultural production has to be related with irrigated-agriculture; increased productivity of commercial agriculture products, sufficient land for food production, and concentrating on comprehensive and systematic development of seven priority plains and mountainous areas in the north.
To make agriculture and forestry more productive and sustainable, the Plan also envisages to improve organization of production and economic structure from grassroots upwards by strengthening production groups in regions having developed agriculture, and establish newer forms of collective production groups as prototype, integrated with systems of service, sale-purchase, processing systems, communication, treasury and credit.
The plan would mostly rest on the same administrative structure as it did, in the previous plan. The new issues have been defined which are: economic-balancing, developing enterprises, Special Economic Zones, focusing areas, Integrating industrialization and modernization. In the Seventh Five-year NSEDP, effort has been made to reduce programmes that cut across many sectors and projects of each sector, as enshrined in the Investment Law. The procedure of drawing up sectoral and provincial development plans makes sure that along with the plan per se, there are a set of activities, a financial plan, and an accountable personnel plan (approaches, programmes-projects, implementation measures), etc. To achieve the plan targets lessons learnt from the past will be drawn upon in addition to following the directions of the Ninth Party Congress the party leadership, and the government authority at all levels, contributions of the people and support from international development partners. To note, the Plan dedicates a separate section to the development and protection of gender equality, to be included into all programs as a cross-cutting issue.