🎯 Vision
“A productive and competitive nation by 2030.”
📌 Purpose
The policy aims to:
- Increase productivity across all sectors.
- Enhance national competitiveness.
- Improve living standards.
- Serve as a coordinating framework for all productivity-related efforts.
📊 Key Challenges Identified
- Declining Labour Productivity: Negative average growth from 2012 to 2018 despite a brief increase in 2018.
- Weak Institutional Frameworks: Overlapping roles, low recognition, and poor coordination among key bodies like NPDD and KiZ.
- Low Social Security Coverage: Especially in informal and rural sectors, with high gender disparity.
- Limited Technology Adoption: Especially in agriculture and manufacturing.
- Environmental Pressures: Climate change and over-reliance on hydroelectric power.
- Inadequate Skills Development: Mismatch between training and industry needs.
- Lack of Productivity Data: Incomplete measurement systems not covering total factor productivity.
- Youth Unemployment: Skills gaps and limited entrepreneurial opportunities.
- Barriers for Women & Persons with Disabilities: Persistent inequalities and insufficient support systems.
✅ Core Objectives & Measures
- Improve Productivity Across Sectors
- Promote awareness, training, and productivity tools in all industries.
- Promote Decent Work
- Enhance social dialogue, social protection, and inclusion of youth, women, and PWDs.
- Strengthen Institutional Coordination
- Clearly define roles of institutions and enhance stakeholder collaboration.
- Enhance Human Capital
- Emphasize skills training, psychometric testing, and career guidance.
- Foster Green & Innovative Production
- Promote sustainable practices and research on climate-friendly solutions.
- Improve Measurement Systems
- Develop mechanisms for comprehensive, data-driven productivity monitoring.
🧩 Implementation Framework
- Lead Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Social Security.
- Collaborators: Various government ministries, private sector, academia, civil society, and cooperating partners.
- Legal Support: Enactment of a National Productivity Act and alignment with over 15 existing related laws.
💰 Financing
- Government budgets, contributions from partners, private sector, and donors.
📈 Monitoring & Evaluation
- A dedicated framework will be developed to assess implementation progress and outcomes.
