National Development Strategy (NDS) 2022
The key objectives of the National Developmetn strategy are:
1. promote equality and empower women
2. To develop global partnership for development
3. To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
4. Achieve universal primary education
5. Reduce child mortility
6. Improve martanl health
7. Combat HIV / AIDS malaria and other diseases
8. Ensure environmental sustainability
Main features of the measure is:
Intergration and interconnection of the various policies and programmes . National Development strategies are comprehensive focusing not only on economic development but also consider economic, social, political and environmental dimensions in combination and ensure a synergy among the various policies and programmes that contributes for the common strategy and goals. National Development Strategy becomes genuinly national when it is the result of as concesors among all of the principal groups in a society. A national strategy can not be the vision of one stratum group or class. National Development strategies are as a rule, the result of an open dialogue and far reaching consultations. This consulting process itself is an important element in forming a concensors in a society regarding the wide range of issues ranging from national strategy as well as tools for mobilising necesary resources (not only financial, but administrative/ organisational, institutional and even spiritual/ cultural)
Expected results of the NDS is to have a met the above objectives by the year 2022. I relation to the 2005 Convention:
1. would have established cultural indistries
2. Would be able to import and export cultural goods
3. Most Swazis will be able to make a living and meet most of the NDS objectives though arts and culture
We did not get the amount allocated for the implementation of this measure by Government of Swaziland. However the UNDP in their 2012 report states that they allocated an amount of USD 342, 413.00 towards the National Development Strategy. Some funds comes from the EU although it was not obtained how much.