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Strategy for the development of Samoa 2016/17-2019/20 : Monitoring and Evaluation to Support the SDS - Accelerating sustainable development and broadening opportunities for all.

Strategy for the development of Samoa 2016/17-2019/20 : Monitoring and Evaluation to Support the SDS - Accelerating sustainable development and broadening opportunities for all. Taiala mo le Atina'e o Samoa 2016/17 - 2019/20 - Una'ia Atina'e ma Fa'atupula'ia Avanoa mo Tagata Uma

Since the first Statement of Economic Strategy the government has continued to view the private sector as the engine for development and growth. This SDS again places great emphasis on the importance of developing the private sector. The ultimate goal for stimulating private sector investment is to create employment opportunities in addition to providing goods and services and generating a solid source of government revenue. Promoting private sector investment therefore is a key prerequisite for achieving the national vision of a better quality of life.

Since the first Statement of Economic Strategy the government has continued to view the private sector as the engine for development and growth. This SDS again places great emphasis on the importance of developing the private sector. The ultimate goal for stimulating private sector investment is to create employment opportunities in addition to providing goods and services and generating a solid source of government revenue. Promoting private sector investment therefore is a key prerequisite for achieving the national vision of a better quality of life.

Environmental monitoring and reporting at the national level was highlighted by the Rio Agenda for Sustainable Development (Agenda 21) and has since been supported at the global level through the Global Environmental Outlook (GEO) report series that started in 1997. The GEO project itself was also initiated in response to the environmental reporting requirements of the UN Agenda 21 and to a UNEP Governing Council decision of May 1995 which requested the production of a new comprehensive global state of the environment report. As a global report, GEO combines top-down integrated assessment with bottom-up environmental reporting. This approach, which depends on regional assessments from designated regional centres including SPREP, provides the framework for national level inputs into the rolling up of regional impacts and trends. GEO regional reporting preparation also contributed to strengthening national level capacity for the preparation of national SOE.