Draft of Long-term Sustainable Development Concept submitted

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Parliamentary draft resolution on adopting the “Long-term Concept of Sustainable development of Mongolia” was submitted to parliament January 4 by A.Bakei, S.Odontuya, N.Battsereg and S.Demberel MPs. The document sets a goal before Mongolia to become a leading middle-income country with stable multi-sector economy, dominating middle and upper middle classes, preserved ecological balance, and with sustainable democracy by 2030. The concept with stages 2016-2020, 2021-2025 and 2026-2030 has been developed on a clause of the Constitution “aspiring toward a supreme objective of developing a human, civil and democratic society in the country” and the United Nations ideology of sustainable development, and takes into consideraton the pressing issues of Mongolia. The sustainable development concept has four key objectives. The first one is to intensify agriculture, to create and export Mongolian organic brands, to promote value-added final productions, to improve a competitiveness of mining sphere, to attract more tourists through advertizing untouched beauty of Mongolian landscape, to cover the domestic energy consumption, and to export energy by building more sources. The second key matter is to improve a quality of and access to healthcare, the public education on health, to form a national system of lifetime education, to eradicate all forms of poverty, to reduce unemployment rate, to enlarge a portion of the middle class. Next one is to protect water reserves and prevent its shortage, to enhance an access to hygiene facilities, to build national capacity of climate change adaptation, to reduce carbondioxide emission, to strengthen a system of preventing natural calamities, to make sophisticate the green urban planning, and to improve waste management. The fourth goal is to determine the sustainable development policies in local levels, to establish an accountable monitoring system over the policy implementation, to enhance administrative leadership within the public services, and to consolidate good and transparent governance that ensures close public-private partnership.