Strategic Plan 2012/13 to 2016/17 of the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry.

The MAWF Strategic Plan for the period 2012/13 to 2016/17 is a framework that outlines the approaches and activities that MAWF intends to take in order to achieve a steady and sustained growth in the medium term. This plan provides an integrated picture of where MAWF is going to be over the next five years and to serve as a communication vehicle for conveying its direction. This document is aligned to both the Fourth National Development Plan (NDP4) and the Sectoral Execution Plans (SEPs). The reason for developing a new Strategic Plan is to develop a Vision and Mission Statements, core values and objectives that coincide and link the operational planning with NDP4 and MTEF. The new plan will outline responsibilities to determine how the strategic objectives and programmes will be achieved and who will be responsible for carrying them out (pag. 1).
The Strategic Plan stands out as the roadmap to success if fully implemented and achieved. A Strategic Plan is the foundation of Performance Management System (PMS). It sets clear strategic objectives and allows the organization to manage performance in order to achieve them. It forms a basis for Performance Agreements at individual/staff level thereby translating a strategy into desired action by the entire organization. Its mandate aims to promote, manage and utilize the agriculture, water and forestry resources sustainably (pag. 1).
The Mission defines the Ministry’s purpose and primary objective to promoting and managing the sustainable utilisation and development of agricultural, water and forestry resources for a prosperous Namibia through stakeholder partnerships (pag. 2). The Vision of the Ministry aims to be recognised as the leading contributor to food security, agro-product competitiveness, increased and equitable access to our natural resources for improved livelihood, wellbeing and wealth for all. The Crop and Horticulture Production Strategic programme is aimed at enhancing food security. There are four projects within this programmes namely: Support to Dry land Crop Production, Promote of irrigated Crop production, Support to small scale horticulture farmers; Integrated support of urban and peri-urban horticulture (pag. 4).
Strategic Objective 2.1 aims at promoting and developing the agricultural sector in order to ensure increased productivity and output for economic growth and food security (pag. 5).
Strategic Objective 3.2 ensures adequate readiness, warning, response, mitigation and prevention measures for impacts of natural disasters related to water (pag. 5).