1. Multi Annual Development Plan 2006-2011
Suriname
Thania Chin A Lin BSc.
Ministry of Planning & Development Cooperation
May 12, 2009 Paramaribo, Suriname

2. Institution with the main responsibility for respectively overall planning and
Monitoring and Evaluation of Multi Annual Development Plan
Ministry of
Planning
&
Development
Cooperation
National National
Planning Bureau
Office for Statistics

3. Mission & Vision & Strategy
Vision: A just society with the guarantee of enjoyment of
human rights and basic social security for every citizen.
Mission: Improvement of the quality of life of all Surinamers.
Strategy: An integrated approach to sustainable
development, whereby human and economic development
are mutually dependent on one another and in which a fair
distribution of wealth is the basis for enjoying common rights
and complying with obligations by Government and citizens.

4. Pillars of Development
 The Multi-Annual Development Plan (MOP) for the period
2006-2011 was approved by Parliament in August 2006. The
MOP distinguishes 4 main ‘pillars of development’, namely:
 Good governance;
 Economic development;
 Social and human development;
 Equal distribution of wealth and equal
opportunities for all

5. Pillars of Development
 In addition the Multi-Annual Development Plan (MOP)
identifies 3 crosscutting issues’, namely:
 Environment;
 Gender;
 Youth

6. Aims and Objectives
 Increasing the executive capacity op public
administration, both at central and district level, and
improving governmet’s services
 Safeguarding compliance with and protection of human
rights by the relevant authorities in the field of legislation,
administration of justice

7. Aims and Objectives
Improvement of the efficiency in the management of
Government finances
 Focus on promoting and protecting the democracy of
Suriname, the region and the rest of the world through the
foreign policy

8. Aims and Objectives
 Realize an economic growth of 6% per year
 Enabling the legal and economic infrastructure for
production
Attract investments through the private sector
Direct involvement of local enterprise in the production
of minerals is stimulated

9. Aims and Objectives
 Through the agricultural sector promote: food security
and food safety for the total population; and increase the
income generation and growth for the entrepreneurs
 Tourism one of the priority sectors for economic
diversification. Sustainable use of culture and
nature, which means respecting and protecting the rights
of, in particular, the indigenous people and the Maroons

10. Aims and Objectives
 Reforming education in order to enable the Surinamese
citizen to obtain knowledge and skills to effectively
participate in socio-economic life
Promote the general health care to guarantee the quality
and content of health care is. Bring preventive and
primary curative health care as well as secondary health
care also within reach of the inhabitants of the districts
and the interior.

11. Aims and Objectives
 Increase the availability of financial resources and the
access to financing and land for housing purposes
Maintain gender equality in all policy programs
Improve youth participation as part of improving
community participation (youth make up 50% of
population)

12. Aims and Objectives
 Guarantee basic social security (safety and legal
certainty; education, health care and housing) for each
citizen;
 creating new and reforming current jobs and working
conditions;
 Systematically and gradually reducing hidden
unemployment;

13. Aims and Objectives
Increasing the number of jobs in the private sector;
 Guaranteeing jobs for the economically active and
growing work force and offering opportunities to micro-
entrepreneurs
 Gearing education towards the current jobs and the
jobs to be created.

14. Evaluation of Multi Annual Development Plan
 Decentralization of the government is ongoing (
improvement of decentralized services and involvement of
communities)
 Improvement of the production infrastructure ( physical
infrastructure – road improvement for access to production
areas, certification of industries and ICT services,
agricultural infrastructure)
 Negotiations for improvement of national involvement in
mining business
 Programme for micro entrepreneurs
 Programmes for access to housing facilities ( finance and
land)

15. Evaluation of Multi Annual Development Plan
 Trade negotiation on international level improved
 Diversification of international relations ( Europe, Asia,
Africa, Caricom
 National legislation is brought in line with international
human rights treaties that have been ratified by Suriname
 Crime prevention and crime control is taken in hand in
cooperation with national and international partners;
 A security policy is maintained that leans on legislation and
rules, adjusted surveillance of our territory and cooperation
treaties with relevant countries

16. Evaluation of Multi Annual Development Plan
 Various authorities are enabled to guarantee security to
boost the feeling of security in citizens to an acceptable
level.
 Within the integral and solution-oriented working
method, the police, fire department and army should work
together more often and more intensively
 Authorities for the maintenance of law and order and
supporting authorities, such as the Suriname Police
Corps, the Suriname Fire Department and the National
Army, are strengthened

17. Evaluation of Multi Annual Development Plan
Development intervention comprises the whole process of
building strategic alliances: buy in of all key stakeholders
and partners in development (government, civil society,
private sector, international donor agencies)

18. Issues of concern
The defense organization is faced with great challenges.
A Growing relation between national and international security is
inherent to the complexity of society’s development when it
comes to security services.
The military must be able to take action in various roles.

19. Issues
Issues arising in the development of economic sectors in
Suriname:
 Tourism : chance of trafficking in Persons, illegal
tourists in border areas
Forestry and mining and fisheries : illegal exploitation
activities in national territories
 Environment: National disasters

20. Issues
One of the spearheads of the current policy is further
intensification, structuring and expansion of possible
forms of military aid and support to civil authorities in
the maintenance of law and order, disaster control and
humanitarian aid, and the intensification of civil and
military relations.

21. Issues
Special duties in the field of border patrol, surveillance of
the Exclusive Economic Zone, the socio-economic
development of our country and aid to international
organizations are amongst duties of the army. This
workload increase involves the necessary rehabilitation of
the military to guarantee security.

23. Thank you !!!
May 12, 2009 Paramaribo, Suriname