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Muscat: Oman’s next five-year-plan will focus its efforts towards achieving the Tanfeedh goals for economic diversification, according to Dr Talal Al Rahbi, the Deputy Secretary-General of Oman’s Supreme Council for Planning (SCP).
The Tanfeedh plan for economic diversification aims to move Oman away from the oil-and-gas-based sources of income, and has earmarked five sectors that have high growth potential and economic returns. These are agriculture and fisheries, manufacturing, logistics and transport, energy and mining, and tourism.
“In the five-year plan, we are focusing on the five promising sectors, namely tourism, manufacturing, mining, fisheries and logistics,” said Al Rahbi, at a workshop organised by the SCP to explain the factors that will influence the drafting of the 10th five-year plan. “The programmes came also to focus on the investment of these sectors and the jobs that will be created in these sectors”.
“Of course, in this context, the Implementation, Support and Follow-up Unit (ISFU) that was established in 2016 has, as one of its mandates, to follow up on the results of the Tanfeedh labs that took place to study these five sectors,” he added. The General Secretariat of the SCP is formulating the 10th five-year plan (2021-2025) as the first implementation plan for Oman’s Vision 2040. The vision sets four main objectives for work, including man and society, economy and development, governance and institutional performance, and the environment of work. There are 12 national priorities which contain 75 strategic aims and 68 indicators to measure this performance.
Intisar Abdullah Al Wahaibi, the General Manager of Development Planning and the Project Manager for the preparation of the 10th five-year plan at the SCP, said, “The secretariat of the SCP held a workshop on the 10th five-year plan, which is the first phase of implementation for Vision 2040. The main goal of the workshop was to explain the methodology of drafting this plan.”
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