Vision 2020

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Vision 2020 Achieving Our Vision
October 8 9th, 2008 Conference on the Economy
(COTE) University of the West Indies
Programme Management Office Ministry of Planning,
Housing and the Environment
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• Format of Presentation
• Part I Understanding Vision 2020
• Part II Moving towards our Vision
• Part III Critical Success Factors

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• PART I UNDERSTANDING VISION 2020

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• What is Vision 2020?
• Vision 2020 A Better Quality of Life for All
  Citizens
• A nation in which all prosper - less than 2 of
  the population is below the poverty line
• Improved access to better quality health- Avg.
  wait time for service at major institutions is
  30 mins.
• A safer Trinidad Tobago - 90 reduction in
  murder rate
• A more organised and structured police service

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• What is Vision 2020?
• Diversified economy- Knowledge and service based
  industries contribute 60 of GDP and employment
• Mobile license and passport renewal
• Model communities study, live, work, play,
  access key services

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• Expected Outcomes of Vision 2020
• A high quality of life
• A united, resilient, productive, innovative and
  prosperous nation
• A disciplined, caring, fun loving society
• Happy, healthy, well-educated people
• Respectful, tolerant, self-reliant people
• Sound, relevant education system
• Respect for law and human rights
• Technologically advanced nation

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• Part II MOVING TOWARDS OUR VISION

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Annual Progress Report
15 years to 2020
First 4 years to 2010
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• National Strategic Plan
• Outlines the long-term strategic perspective to
  the year 2020
• Focuses strategy in the five priority areas
  (development pillars)
• Emphasises an integrated policy agenda and
  performance measurement

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• Operational Plan 2007-2010
• Takes V2020 from the strategic to the
  operational/action level
• Links Goals, Objectives, Strategies to Key
  programmes/projects and outcomes
• Gives context to the National Budget and PSIP

GOALS
Objectives
Strategies
Projects/ Programmes
Targeted Outcomes
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• Transformation in Progress 2007 Report
• First annual report on the progress made towards
  achievement of specific targets in the OP
  2007-2010
• An introduction to the concept of managing for
  results and what this means
• A position paper on the importance of values and
  attitudes to achieving Vision 2020 goals
• A preliminary assessment of where we are
  performing well and where we are not

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• HOW DO WE ACCELERATE PROGRESS AND ACHIEVE BETTER
  RESULTS

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• Managing for Development Results (MfDR)
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• Results-Based Management (RBM)
• MfDR or RBM uses information on Government
  performance to improve decision making and
  thereby ensure the achievement of development
  goals.
• It shifts the focus of public management from
  inputs/activities/outputs to outcomes/impact

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• Managing for Results Way Forward
• Develop an overarching policy framework for the
  introduction of an MfDR system
• Build consensus on the challenges and benefits of
  MfDR within the public sector
• Establish an appropriate monitoring and
  evaluation framework, including a comprehensive
  indicator system to support the implementation of
  the Vision 2020 National Strategic Plan and the
  Operational Plan 2007-2010
• Undertake capacity building in monitoring and
  evaluation and project cycle management

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• PART III CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS

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• Enhancing Values and Attitudes
• More than economics, more than politics, a
  nations culture will determine its fate
• (Former Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan
  Yew, 1994)

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• World Values Survey, TT 2007
• Over 66 per cent of the respondents felt that
  there was either no respect or not much respect
  for human life in the country
• 90 per cent felt that more emphasis should be
  placed on family life in order to create a better
  society
• 90 per cent agreed that there should be greater
  respect for authority

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• Strategic Alignment of Corporate Plans, Policies,
  Work Programmes, Projects with specified
  objectives and goals of Vision 2020
• An integrated approach to developing and
  implementing strategies - Building Partnerships
  within the Public Sector and with the Private
  Sector and Civil Society
• Develop performance indicators and the
  measurement systems to track achievement of goals
  and objectives
• Constant review and revision of Development Plans
  these are not perfect or static documents but
  must continuously be informed by new approaches,
  sectoral trends etc.

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• Implementation the next 5 years will determine
  if we are able to achieve our vision
• Effective leadership

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Thank You
For more information We invite you to visit the
vision 2020 website at www.vision2020.info.tt Or
contact us at 868-622-2020