Twenty-Five-Year National Strategy 2007-2031.

This Twenty-Five-Year National Strategy is a nationwide multisectoral document prepared and adopted before the conclusion of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that represents the reference for the successive Five-Year plans. It targets all the Sudanese across the country and seeks for them (i) a decent and free life; (ii) total justice; (iii) national security in terms of territory, people, and resources; and (iv) leading the country to assume a leading position among nations. The document includes strategies at different levels, namely (1) the Sovereign Affairs Strategy with the aim of safeguarding the sovereignty and the national security, protecting the resources together with realization of peace a national unity based on equality and Shura thereby ensuring justice and developing the country’s functioning; (2) the Economic Strategy including several objectives, the main ones of them (i) effective economic performance through mobilization of financial and production resources; (ii) realizing a structural balance diversifying production, increasing productivity, and improving services and quality; (iii) realizing financial and fiscal reform; (iv) increasing the competitive capabilities of the national economy in respect of external economic pressures; (iv) qualitative and quantitative improvement in living conditions, providing a decent quality of life for all and protecting them from poverty; (v) encouraging the private sector to assume an advanced position in the leadership of comprehensive national development; (vi) increasing the economic, institutional and administrative capabilities of the public sector; (vii) fostering human resources by training, rehabilitation and provision of basic social services such as health, education and potable water; (viii) reducing unemployment; (ix) development in energy, communications, transportation, roads, bridges, irrigation canals, services and markets; (3) the Capacity Building and Community Development Strategy aiming at enabling high social values to play a marked role in cultural and scientific endeavours, as well as utilizing technology as a tool in community improvement; (4) the Social Services Strategy to permit to all citizens to enjoy advanced services in the areas of education, health, shelter, water supply, electricity, transportation and communication at the lowest cost. The sum of these strategies contributes to the national Vision to build a unified, secure, civilized, advanced, and progressive Sudanese nation based on the following values: justice, freedom, Shura and democracy, unity, right to decent and honorable life, honor and dignity, and full participation. For each sector of the Strategy, the document indicates the involved sub-sectors and explains in detail the overall goal, the strategic objectives, and the strategies to achieve these objectives.
In particular, the economic strategy focuses on (i) strengthening rural development in terms of investment, production, and access to services; (ii) promoting investments to serve the economic objectives by increasing production and productivity in a manner that fosters food security and human development; (iii) realizing balanced agricultural and rural growth and increased job opportunities in the framework of the federal system. The strategies proposed for the agricultural sector are as follows (i) optimizing land use according to its productivity; (ii) implementing the national plan for land uses and completing the allocation of 25% of the total land for grazing and forests to benefit livestock and wildlife; (iii) developing available water by increasing reservoirs and rivers and ravines storage capacity, exploiting artesian water, expanding water catchments methods and providing drinking water for humans and livestock; (iv) rehabilitating irrigation services to upgrade the efficiency of water uses by introducing appropriate technologies, disseminating water awareness, protecting water resources by controlling dams and irrigation canals silting, combating papyrus in water basins and canals, combating contamination and regulating water use; (v) doubling the cultivated area by artificial, flowing and flooding irrigation, and doubling the cultivated area for rain-fed agriculture; (vi) expanding the cycle of horticultural production in a manner serving crop diversification, increasing job opportunities, rural income and reduction of poverty; (vii) increasing the forestry and modernizing the agricultural map to ensure geographic and environmental balance between the agricultural and nomadic sectors; (viii) establishing an animal production industry capable to meet internal and external market needs by producing and marketing hygienic meat produced from livestock fed by natural fodder, free from contamination and hormone treatment; (ix) using organic technology methods to breed high productivity crops and livestock; (x) allocating a percentage of financial resources to support the agricultural and government banks enabling them to provide integrated finance; (xi) enticing the public to deposit their money with the banks where sufficient resources could be generated to meet the economic sectors needs.