Transcript Joint Programmes - Information Management System

The 5th Development Plan
Outline
Ali Farzin
Stated First Principles
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Achieving the 20 Year Perspective goals;
Achievement of the Leaders instructions;
Keeping to the Iranian-Islamic Development Model;
Social Justice, Human Dignity and Justice, Social
Security, Equitable Distribution of Income to Prevent
Poverty, Corruption and Discrimination;
Extensive peoples participation and popularising social
and economic domains;
Establishing an enabling environment for achieving
long-term social and economic goals.
Realisation of Article 44 of Constituion;
Deregulation and participation;
First in economy in the region;
First in science, technology and ICT in region.
Change in Planning Approach
– Main Concept and Indicator: Decade of Progress
and Justice;
– First of two Plans to achieve above;
– Focus of first stage on governance and
management (especially on change management
but keeping to Islamic-Iranian values);
– Ensure mobilisation and participation of all groups
to achieve goals.
Writing Style
• Specificity of goals limited – mostly broad and
subject to interpretation;
• Mostly guidelines and rules;
• Focus on actions and budgets mainly through
financial and legal supports (making it more of
a budgeting type document)
Chapter 1 – Islamic-Iranian Culture
• in 17 clauses;
• Intermediate results;
– DSPAC will produce the Islamic-Iranian development model
by the second year;
– A culture re-engineering road map produced;
– An international cultural relations document produced;
– Tourism Development Fund established
• More mosques and prayers rooms instituted
everywhere;
• Imam Khomeini’s approach/values/thoughts
institutionalised.
Chapter 2 – Science and Technology
• in 11 clauses;
• Review and rewriting of curricula, especially human
sciences;
• Producing a Fundamental Transformation Plan;
• Establish a National Sci-Tech Development Fund;
• Achieve 1st and 2nd place in Sci-Tech in region;
• R&D achieves 3% of GDP by end of Plan;
• Support to technical/vocational/skills training;
• Reduced direct management of schools and more PPP;
• 20% of schools managed through “Board of Trustees”.
Chapter 3 – Social Affairs
• In 21 clauses;
• HDI improvement through coordination between health,
education and employment;
• Government gives itself right to adjust pension and social
funds and to provide more flexibility in utilising private funds;
• Standard Basic Health-Care Package produced;
• Reduce Out-of-Pocket health expenditure to 30% - mainly
through health insurance improvement;
• Social protection restructuring;
• Development of a National Youth Plan;
• Supporting female homemakers (and ensuring that their
homemaking activities are accounted for in National
Accounting systems).
Chapter 4 – Management and Admin.
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SMART ID Card;
National Spatial Data Infrastructure;
Increased deconcentration and outsourcing;
Support to elite and merit-based systems
development;
• A clause on accountability and transparency;
Chapter 5 - Economy
• Improving the business environment: SMART Brand systems; easier
and more coordinated licensing procedures;
• Productivity: National Productivity Plan (based on performancebased programming concepts); establish a National Standards Org.
• Employment: support SME networks and clusters; formalising
activities; fiscal incentives;
• Trade: increased empowerment of business associations and guilds
to regulate; more tariffs reduction; removal of any remaining nontariff barriers; more fiscal incentives for value added/exports;
establish an ODA Fund;
• Establish a National Development Fund (using 20% of oil/gas
revenue); Tax/GDP becomes 10%; raise share of Cooperative sector
to 25% of GDP (and Coop Development Bank has 15% of money
sector)
Chapter 6 – Regional Development
• Provincial and District Programming Committee’s
established;
• 10% to 20% of resources may be reallocated;
• Earmarking of 10% for special development purposes;
• Development of mechanisms and indicators;
• National Spatial Planning Council established (to
develop and m&e an integrated national spatial
development plan);
• Strategic Environmental Assessment System
developed;
• Regional Development Council;
Chapter 9 – Budget and Supervision
• Mainly rules about performance based
planning, budgeting and auditing and result
based management frameworks (in 11
clauses);
• Indicates a significant shift towards RBM type
accountability frameworks;
• Project based mainly, although mentions
orientation towards integration and clusters
(joint programming).
Can the 5th Plan Meet Iran’s
Development Challenges
Iran’s Major Development Challenges
and Requirements
Governance
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Civil rights (improved participatory and decentralized processes)
Institutional / Management modes of functioning inadequate to current complexity and needs (requires
improved and integrated working standards, procedures, practices – as well as performance based planning
and budgeting)
Economic management and welfare outcomes (requiring integrated socio-economic programming)
Social development policy (requiring resource and capacity support)
Environmental and natural resource management
Economic
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Non-sustainable economic growth and inappropriate investment (requiring increased private sector
development and investment in conjunction with CSR)
Unemployment and under-employment (requiring integrated employment generation and decent jobs)
Social
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Inequality (requiring inclusive growth processes that combine social development, economic growth,
productive employment and human development investment)
Women’s participation (requiring gender mainstreaming, especially at national planning/budgeting)
Youth rights, employment and welfare (requiring both mainstreamed and targeted approaches)
Natural Resources
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Environmental degradation (requiring improved standards and integrating project and programme
approaches in environmental assessments)