Multi-Annual Development Plan 2022-2026 - - Flipthinking, Connecting, Acting.

The Multi-Annual Development Plan 2022-2026 - Flipthinking, Connecting, Acting is a strategic document that looks into the future (2050). The Plan formulates a 2050 vision and sets values and standards, in other words concrete guidelines, to achieve that Vision. The Values identified are: Justice; Inclusiveness; Freedom; Equality; and Sustainability. The Standards are: Good Governance (realizing systems, structures, and processes to ensure transparency, efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, and fairness); Security (the totality of availability, affordability, reliability, social acceptance, and sustainability o Energy, Water, Food supply, Health care, Education, Telecommunication, Social services); Employment (the promotion and provision of geographically dispersed socio -economically acceptable employment); Value addition (stimulating value addition in order to produce high-quality products, both for export and in case of partial import substitution); Increasingly profitable industries (encouraging industries that - based on knowledge, specific action or sustainable competitive advantage - are not subject to increasing costs for key inputs, both in the long run or when scaling up (e.g. tourism, ICT, etc.); Greening and Green Growth (reducing our carbon footprint in our existing processes and deliberately choosing "greener" growth paths for sectors); International and Local Access (tapping into new paths and strengthening strategic ties with other countries and international organizations; Land rights (indigenous and maroon land rights are collective rights that the United Nations has explicitly stated must be recognized, made explicit in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples); Innovation (researching, developing, investing in, demonstrating, and deploying technological innovation; (Sustainable competitive advantage: exploit potential, where there is demand, and which is unique); and Export-orientation (fostering an export-oriented environment, allowing for increased trade with more diverse countries).
For the 2022-2026 Development Plan, goals, outcomes and indicators have been formulated for each policy area and can be found under Appendix A. The SDGs were used in the formulation.
The strategic action items outlined in the Development Plan 2022-2026 include: Production, Entrepreneurship, Employment, Exports (Establish Local Content Development Office in view of the offshore industry; Improve the business climate; Operationalize the residue and veterinary laboratory for food exports; Increase value addition and economic diversification by conducting value chain analyses, lowering import tariffs for green technology and production, and establishing and stimulating Product Boards, such as tourism and fruit and rice farming; Establish a Fund for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and better use of other funds); Land and Housing ( Apartments can be sold separately; More affordable and faster handling of family land transfers; Recognition of land rights); Social Protection and Employment (Determine poverty threshold and minimum hourly wage; Set up a job bank; Offer decentralized training, education and project opportunities); Education and Health Care (Implement educational innovations with cognition as the starting point; Reduce healthcare costs through decentralized supply of specializations); Environment & Nature and Safety (Ban mercury use ; Protect and sustainably utilize freshwater resources, forest and biodiversity; Promote regionally dispersed development and production opportunities; Monitoring of natural areas, with rehabilitation of degraded areas, in community settings); Transport and Infrastructure (New connection across the Suriname River); Efficient and Effective Government (Stepping back from government: privatize state-owned enterprises and act in partnership with the private sector and NGOs; Strengthen institutions; Establish corruption hotline and ban conflict of interest).