DOHA: 29 October/QNA/ HE Dr. Saleh bin Mohammed Al-Nabit, Minister of Development Planning and Statistics (MDPS),said the Ministry has contributed to Qatar National Vision 2030 (QNV2030) coordination efforts, which aims to identify the challenges facing the State of Qatar, as the country shall choose the best development path that is compatible with the views of its leadership and the aspirations of its people.QNV2030 defines broad future trends and reflects the objectives and culture of the Qatari people. By highlighting the future, the Vision illuminates the fundamental choices that lead to achievinghuman, social, economic and environmental goals.In his opening address at a workshop titled (Qatar's Vision from Strategy to Implementation), held in Doha recently, the Minister stressed the importance of spreading the culture of shared responsibility amongministries,enhancing existing cooperation between Ministry of Finance and MDPSand exploring inter-ministerial coordination mechanismthat ensures coordinated efforts between all ministries and agencies to achieveQNV2030 goals. "Inter-ministerial coordination is essential to ensure areas for collaboration foreffective implementation of QNV2030", Dr. Saleh said.HE Dr. Saleh said that QNV2030 should be a social responsibility, and cannot achieve its goals in absence of the spirit of cooperation and partnership among all government agencies."It is crucial to start together with collaborativerelationship between entities to work toward shared objectives,based on sense of responsibility and hard work. This will help build a common purpose and shared commitment", he added.HE Dr. Saleh Al-Nabitprovided a detailed presentation – in the workshop - on QNV2030, explaining that despite the fact that QNV2030 is based on four interrelated pillars,namely:Human Development, Social Development, Economic Developmentand Environmental Development, however, the focus on the economic aspect serves all QNV2030 goals, as the primary outcome of economic development is to develop a more productive, diversified and competitive economy capable of meeting the needs of, and securing a high standard of living for all the Qataripeoplefor the present and for the future, which is also linked to institutional development and modernization issues.In his presentation, HE Dr. Saleh noted that the Economic Development encompasses four pillars, the first of which is "Economic Management", which includes stability of the fiscal policy, creating a controlled mechanism for budget preparation to support national development priorities and projects, service delivery, management of public sector investment projects (Public-Private Partnership), as well as the development of capital market and liquidity management. The second sub-pillar – he said - is economic infrastructure, which includes consistent and inter-correlated frameworks for land use planning, transportation, review of mega projects (Doha Metro and Doha Port), to enhance service deliveryefficiency, administrative and regulatory reforms, and adequate infrastructure to support sustainable use of resources.Natural Resources Management includes better use of land and access to industrial landsOne slide of HE Dr. Saleh's presentation focuses on the Third Pillar "Management of Natural Resources", which includes better use of lands and access to industrial land, improving efficiency of energy use, enhancing efficiency in use and conservation of fresh water resources and preservation of fish stocks. Regarding the private sector -Dr. Saleh said –private sector diversification includes institutional frameworks and infrastructure to support Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises(SMEs), increase economic diversification, enhance competitiveness in localthe market, streamline business systems, contract and procurementreform,public-privatepartnership framework and provide support for sectoral strategies and research and development strategy.As for broad development outcome, HE Dr. Saleh noted the that a number of targeted areas have been defined, such as fiscal policy framework, which the government targetsmany results, including provision of funds for future generations, enhancing economic resilience, ability to recover from or adjust to the negative impacts of external economic shocks, mitigating economic volatility, reducing uncertainty, improvinginvestment climate and enhancing credit rating. In the area of budget reform, HE Dr. Saleh noted that many targets can be achieved, such as improving compatibility and interoperability between spending and strategic priorities,achieving desired value of public spending, and improving public serviceperformance.HE Dr. Saleh tackled – in his presentation,   public investment management, saying that the portfolio investment assets can be built in a way that meets the development needs, improves quality, reduces costs, and improvesmanagement of national asset operations, in addition to strengthening private sector (through Public-Private Partnership). As for the development of financial and capital markets, Dr. Saleh said that it is possible to improve brokerage service process in financial surpluses and increase their efficiency, reduce risk in asset markets, increase access to financial markets, and improve liquidity management and price stability.HE Dr. Salehemphasized that the government'sfocus falls currently on empowerment of all sectors in the country throughmodernization, adding that institutional development and modernization includes several areas namely; planning and strategic policy, budget and financial management, organizational alignment across ministries and agencies, human resources development, activation of institutional process and performance management. He stressed that the institutional development and modernization ensures environmental sustainability, sustainable economic prosperity, establishing educated and healthy population with high capacities andeffective Qatari participation in a productive labour force and caring and cohesive society.