Yap Summit Community Sector - Yap State Government

YAP STATE GOVERNMENT
INFORMAL & TRADITIONAL SECTOR: Topics & Goals -suggested -
Topics: Subsistence Activities & Private Sector; Consumers’ Choices; Welfare & Environment.
Goals: Linking subsistence activities and private sector, and bringing traditional activities into the formal economy;
Strengthening the informal economy addressing people’s consumption habits towards local products; Developing
recommendations for traditional and alternative welfare and environment solutions.
Strategic Development Plan (2004-2023)
The policy document that currently addresses the Yapese social, economic and environmental strategy is the
Strategic Development Plan (SDP) 2004-2023. The plan was drafted at the national level in 2003 and it has not
been tailored so far to the specific Yapese reality. The SDP defines four main development objectives. The first
stresses the importance of achieving “Stability and Security” to maintain macroeconomic stability.
Macroeconomic stability is indispensable given the progressively increasing cuts in the Compact funding towards
the end of the Compact itself. The second objective advocates for the creation of an “Improved Enabling
Environment for Economic Growth” where through institutional capacity an environment able to support “open,
outward-oriented and private sector led development” should be created. The third objective aims at supporting
an “Improved Education and Health Status”, providing basic Health and Education services. Finally, the fourth
objective focuses on creating “Assured Self-Reliance and Sustainability” through the establishment of a trust fund
aiming at replacing in the long term the annually appropriated transfers from the U.S..
These four objectives shape the framework within which the different sectors of the Yapese Social and Economic
system are planned. The sectors as defined in the SDP are framed by sub-Goals inspired by the four main
objectives described.
The SDP does not directly include activities related to the Energy Sector, as well as initiatives undertaken by Public
Works & Transportation (PW&T). However, the Energy Policy to be adopted at the nation level in the upcoming
future and the logic under which PW&T operates explicitly respond to the needs expressed by the four main SDP
objectives. PW&T and YSPSC should be highly involved in relation to the SDP Goals related to Environment and
Public Sector Management.
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