Kingdom of Eswatini Strategic Roadmap; 2019 -2022

This policy targets to solve the economic challenges facing the Kingdom of Eswatini. It identifies the following problems; a widening fiscal deficit, declining economic growth rate and a decline in the ease of doing business index. The policy further identified key areas of improvement that need to be addressed in the course of repositioning the country towards growth to include improving the culture of implementation, human capital and diversity to tackle issues regarding the inclusion of gender, youths, the disabled, etc, improving the state of ICT in the country, etc. While its mission is establish a policy framework that will ensure sustainable economic development, financial stability & growth, improving the quality of life of the citizenry, the vision of the policy is to get the country to attain first world status by 2022. The policy identified certain strategic goals, including; to create an enabling environment in which Emaswati, investors & strategic partners can thrive; to create an adaptable & progressive legislative environment that promotes peace, stability & prosperity, to create the space & regulation required for the Private Sector to thrive, and to be an efficient, dependable & modern Government service provider. Further identified, are five sectors of the economy, regarded as key growth sectors based on their ability to deliver high impact on GDP growth, job creation and revenue mobilization, these sectors include education/ICT, agriculture, manufacturing/agroprocessing, tourism and mining/energy.