“Strengthening the Government Capacity of National Development Policy and Planning” Project “Poverty Environment Initiative” Programme Analysis and Recommendations on Development Policy and Planning Documents of Uvurkhangai aimag Consultant: B.Batmunkh, Advising Professor, Economics Department of the Sciences School of the National University of Mongolia Ulaanbaatar 2016 CONTENT 1. PROJECT GOAL AND OBJECTIVES ................................................................................................... 4 2. METHODOLOGY OF THE DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND PLANNING DOCUMENTS IN UVURKHANGAI AIMAG ......................................................................................................................... 5 3. REVIEWED DEVELOPMENT POLICY PLANNING DOCUMENTS ................................................ 6 4. REFLECTION OF POVERTY REDUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLICY PLANNING DOCUMENTS .................................................................... 7 5. HARMONIZATION BETWEEN THE DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND PROGRAMS OF UVURKHANGAI AIMAG ......................................................................................................................... 8 6. RELATIONSHIP OF THE DEVELOPMENT POLICY PLANNING DOCUMENTS OF UVURKHANGAI AIMAG TO THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND STRATEGY ...... 10 7. INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT POLICY PLANNING ........................................................................ 11 8. ALLOCATED BUDGET FOR THE PLANNED OBJECTIVES AND MEASURES ......................... 12 9. RESPONSIBLE BODIES ...................................................................................................................... 13 10. STATISTICS AND INDICATORS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO EVALUATE ................................................................................................................. 13 11. REVIEW TO THE DEVELOPMENT MAIN THREE POLICY DOCUMENTS OF UVURKHANGAI AIMAG ....................................................................................................................... 14 11.1. THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY DOCUMENTS IN 2014-2024 OF UVURKHANGAI AIMAG . 14 11.2. 2012-2016 “PRODUCTIVE- UVURKHANGAI” GOVERNOR'S ACTION PLAN .................................... 15 А.In terms of Poverty Reduction: ....................................................................................................... 15 B. In terms of Environment Conservation: ......................................................................................... 16 11.3 “GREEN DEVELOPMENT 2014-2024” PROGRAM OF UVURKHANGAI .............................................. 17 12. CONCLUSION .................................................................................................................................... 18 13. RECOMMENDATIONS ..................................................................................................................... 20 APPENDIX № 1. ANALYSIS ON REFLECTION OF POVERTY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY DOCUMENT IN 2014-2024 OF UVURKHANGAI AIMAG ...................................................................................................................................................... 23 APPENDIX № 2. ANALYSIS ON REFLECTION OF POVERTY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN THE “PRODUCTIVE-UVURKHANGAI” 2012-2016 GOVERNOR’S ACTION PLAN ................. 31 APPENDIX № 3. ANALYSIS ON REFLECTION OF POVERTY, ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES TO THE “GREEN DEVELOPMENT” PROGRAM OF UVURKHANGAI AIMAG .................................... 36 APPENDIX № 4. THEMATIC ANALYSIS ON EXPECTED RESULTS, BUDGET AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DEVELOPMENT POLICY PLANNING DOCUMENTS OF UVURKHANGAI AIMAG ....................................................................................................................... 45 APPENDIX № 5. ANALYSIS ON HARMONIZATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT POLICY PLANNING OF UVURKHANGAI AIMAG TO THE COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY ................................................................................................................. 48 2 APPENDIX № 6. ANALYSIS ON RELATIONSHIP OF DEVELOPMENT POLICY PLANNING OF UVURKHANGAI AIMAG TO MDG IN MONGOLIA ........................................................................... 55 APPENDIX № 7. ANALYSIS ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY DOCUMENT IN 2014-2024 OF UVURKHANGAI AIMAG AND SUB-PROGRAMS ........ 58 APPENDIX № 8. ANALYSIS ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE “PRODUCTIVE- UVURKHANGAI” 2012-2016 GOVERNOR’S ACTION PLAN AND SUB-PROGRAMS .................. 61 APPENDIX № 9. ANALYSIS ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE “GREEN DEVELOPMENT” PROGRAM AND SUB-PROGRAMS....................................................................................................... 63 3 1. Project Goal and Objectives The Poverty Environmental Initiative (PEI) program is the UN Development Programme and the United Nations Environment Programme joint program has been implemented in more than 20 countries around the world. The purpose of the programme that supports country-led efforts to put pro-poor, pro- environment objectives into the heart of government by mainstreaming poverty- environment objectives into national development and sub-national development planning, from policymaking to budgeting, implementation and monitoring and evaluation. Since 2014, the programme is implemented one component of the project “Strengthening Government Capacity for National Development Policy and Planning in Mongolia” with the United Nations Development Programme and the Ministry of Finance (MOF). There were undertaken various activities such as to ensure policy recommendations in green development policy and its implementation action plan; and reflect the equitable green economy issues in the macro-economic modeling T21 model; and include poverty and environmental problems in the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Guideline; to strengthen the capacity of the planning and M&E officials of the ministries, local governments and the National Statistics Office. In 2015 the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Nature, Green Development and Tourism has jointly started the project to support the long-term development policy and planning with green development and poverty-environment issues in the local areas thus this consultancy is started. The consultancy has three main aims as following: • Assessment of environmental, social and economic vulnerability and determination of the risks and vulnerabilities facing environment and citizens in the local area; • Support the green development and poverty-environment issues in line with the long-term development policy and planning; • Support to strengthen the coordination and consistency of the national and local development policy and planning; Consultancy service is aimed to support the local decision-makers, planners, M&E specialists based on the information, science and evidence in policy planning; in particular, to learn the participatory method of organizing discussions for people and women with incomes below the poverty level; and strengthening and local development policy planning and policy coordination between national and local levels. This report presents the results of the analysis in point of view of poverty reduction and environmental degradation to the development policy documents of Uvurkhangai aimag. However, analysis is explores not only poverty and environmental points but also how do these documents linked each other and consistent to the national policy and strategy and do planning documents applied common requirements met, generally. 4 2. Methodology of the Development policy and planning documents in Uvurkhangai aimag The study initially was to review poverty reduction and environmental degradation issues in the Uvurkhangai development policy documents as mentioned in the project documents. The study was used the “Mainstreaming Environment and Climate for Reduction and Sustainable Development” handbook byUNDP for the analysis. At the same time, there was looked at Internet posted that what planning is and what requirements and principles for planning are which has used. By above mentioned studies, there is generally the same planning principles and requirements for the business plan and national policies, strategies and local development planning in parallel, its own unique differences too. Hereby, I highlighted the principles of local planning by the Michigan Planning Association, US state. These principles are considered good for local planning. The analysis was followed main approaches: 1.The analysis done on how do reflect objectives of poverty reduction and environment degradation in aimag delopment policy documents. It is assessed each measures by using three assessments that directly impacted, indirectly and no effect on poverty reduction. For the environmental issues, each planned activities assessed by four categories such as directly, indirectly affect, not affected and adverse impact. (See Appendix 1, 2, and 3) 2. Assessment was done in consistency of aimag development policy planning to the National development policy, strategy in terms of poverty reduction and environmental degradation. In other words, it was reviewed relationship of the development policy planning to the MDG based Comprehensive National Development Strategy and MDG of Mongolia. The analysis was employed content analysis and thematic analysis. (See Appendix 5 and 6) 3. In terms of concept, analysis was included that planning is