Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony and the UNDP Resident Representative r. Samuel G. Doe at the launch of 3-year development plan. June 2, 2023 | Photo: Courtesy

Central Equatoria government has launched a three-year development plan with a budget allocation of nearly 23 billion South Sudanese pounds for the implementation.

The 2022-2024 state development plan was drafted by the state with technical and financial support from the United Nations Development Program, UNDP.

It is anchored on several pillars including security stabilization and peace-building, access to social services and justice systems as well as economic recovery through agriculture and investment.

Other pillars include the return, resettlement, and reintegration of refugees and internally displaced persons, among others.

Speaking during the official lunch in Juba on Friday, Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony of Central Equatoria said the document will serve as a tool for measuring the development processes and service delivery in the state in the coming years.

“After this process, all the state institutions will be duty-bound to use the parameters of these documents as a basis of their planning and budgeting in the three years of implementation,” Adil said.

“It is worth mentioning that the state development plan is aligned with the number of clusters of the revised national development strategy.”

Acording to the plan, Social Protection and Safety Nets take the biggest chunk of the allocation at three-point-eight million pounds followed by health services with a budget estimate of two-point-seven million pounds.

Peace and security are thirds with a budget allocation of two-point-two million pounds.

The budget has also given more priority to infrastructure development in the state.

In the plan, the state will generate the budget through taxes, government projects, the five-percent allocation from oil and mineral revenues, levies on tourism, and borrowing, among others.