Papua New Guinea

Medium Term Development Plan 2

2016-2017

Department of National Planning and Monitoring

Executive Summary

MTDP2 will be for two years only but is effectivly describing the priorities and actions of the O'Neill/Dion Government with a five-year outlook from 2013. This will allow the development planning process to begin to allign with the five-year parliamentry cycle. The over arching goals stemming from Vision 2050 and StaRS are:

• Increasing the countries Human Development Index (HDI) rating in 2016-2017 towards PNG becoming one of the top 50 countries in the HDI by 2050; and
• Achieving this by and through becoming a world leader in responsible,sustainable development.