- Implementing the people’s development policy agenda
- Office of the Chief Secretary
- The Chief Secretary is the Chief Custodian of the development agenda for Tobago on behalf of the people of Tobago, having been selected from the elected members of the Tobago House of Assembly.
- The Chief Secretary, at the first reasonable opportunity after an election, will present to the Executive Council an Executive Council Note outlining and justifying a list of Development Agenda Priorities for Tobago, as part of the Strategic Policy Agenda (SPA).
- The Executive Council
- The Executive Council will ratify and confirm the Development Agenda Priorities (DAPs), after which a motion will be tabled in the Tobago House of Assembly for an open debate on the provisions of the Strategic Policy Agenda and the Development Agenda Priorities.
- Once the motion is carried, the Development Agenda Priorities will be adopted as official THA policy.
- Tobago House of Assembly Legislature
- In a new Tobago House of Assembly with a full legislature, the process of adopting the Development Agenda Priorities as THA policy will follow a full legislative process to enact the Tobago Development Agenda Priorities Act (see link for example).
- The Tobago Development Agenda Priorities Act will be subject to legislative review every three years. The first three-year cycle will begin from the date of the first proclamation of the act.
- In the interim, after any DAPs have been adopted by the Tobago House of Assembly legislature, as the official policy of the THA, the Office of the Chief Secretary (OCS) will prepare and issue Mandate Letters to the Secretary of each Division of the Tobago House of Assembly.
- The secretaries will use the mandate letters to prepare a Policy Mandate Memorandum (PMM) to guide the development of policies, plans, and programs in their division.
- Note that the Chief Secretary has already issued mandate letters to all Secretaries of the Tobago House of Assembly for the 2021 to 2025 term.
- The Strategic Advisory Council,
- The Tobago House of Assembly has established a Strategic Advisory Council (SAC) to advise the Executive Council on all matters related to planning and development for Tobago.
- The SAC primarily comprises technical advisors to the secretaries of the THA’s divisions. The SAC also includes a few senior technical professionals within the THA division, such as senior directors and directors.
- Office of the Chief Secretary
