Sustainable Development Specialist at the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Elizabeth Emanuel (left), speaks about the Vision 2030 Jamaica National Development Plan at a JIS Think Tank held on September 1 at the agency’s head office in Kingston. PIOJ Economic Specialist, Richard Lumsden (centre), and Social Sector Specialist, Charles Clayton, listen.

Economic Specialist at the PIOJ, Richard Lumsden, speaking at a JIS Think Tank on Tuesday said that the Prime Minister, in his budget presentation in May, tabled the Vision 2030 Jamaica Plan and the medium-term framework, which is one of the mechanisms for operationalising and implementing the plan.

“The plan is now at the stage of implementation. Now what we are looking at is ensuring that we set up an effective framework for implementation, monitoring and evaluation going forward,” he said.

Lumsden informed that there is a technical monitoring committee, made up of senior members of government, which will have the operational responsibility for guiding the implementation of the plan.

In addition, he said, “there is a technical secretariat that provides supporting services to the ministries and their agencies and departments as it is through their corporate plans, budget and operational plans that the implementation will take place”.

“We also have thematic working groups, which we are now establishing, which are multi-stakeholder bodies that will ensure that the wider society has a role in monitoring and making an input into the implementation of the plan,” he noted further. (more…)