Decision Step 3: Choose Development Agenda Priorities, DAPs
Why is decision step three important?
- Development agenda priorities (DAPs) represent the policy focus areas (PILLAR 3) essential for the sustainable growth and improvement of Tobago’s society and economy. For example, in Tobago, prioritizing investments in infrastructure, education and skills development, tourism, and agriculture, backed by innovation and technology, is essential for job creation and economic growth.
- Achieving sustainable growth would require both cross-cutting development policy focus to drive a whole-of-government and whole-of-society integrated approach to planning and development.
- This integrated approach is an important driver of investment that must be government-driven, government and private sector-funded, or funded using co-investment arrangements that require buy-in from government agencies, civil society, and private businesses.
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Selected tools to implement step 3.
- The strategic development planning pathway/commitment for results framework.
- The Planning Decision Hierarchy/Order
Key Decision Points
- Ensure that the development agenda priority aligns with the overarching policy focus of a division or agency, e.g., a Special Purpose Company.
- Ensure that each focus area program in a division aligns with one or more development agenda priorities.
- Use a development agenda priority as a starting point, i.e., the basis for aligning all public problems and for determining the appropriate policy solutions, legislative frameworks, plans or strategies, programs and projects to address those problems.
Summary of Main Considerations
Using the development agenda priorities
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- The SDPP identifies twenty-one (21) development agenda priorities that align with the core responsibilities of the divisions in the Tobago House of Assembly.
See The Full List and Considerations Related To Each Priority.
