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Official Development Assistance ODA to Timor-Leste Fiscal Year 2016 8 the implementation of the Strategic Development Plan 2011-2030 to provide better services to the population. The Government Program covers four broad areas aligned with the SDP. Development of Social Capital: The true wealth of the nation is in the strength of its people. Maximizing the overall health, education and quality of life of the Timorese people is central to building a fair and progressive society. Infrastructure Development: Core and productive infrastructure is necessary for building a modern and productive economy. The scale and cost of infrastructure development is significant; so the Government needs to plan and implement the infrastructure program in an effective and targeted manner. Economic Development and Job Creation: The Government aims to develop a flourishing market economy with a strong private sector to provide jobs for people and ensure all parts of the nation benefit from the development of Timor- Leste’s natural resources wealth. The Government will focus on expanding and modernizing the agriculture sector, building a thriving tourism sector, encouraging higher levels of private sector activity and activating industries, including the growth and expansion of small and micro business. Consolidation of the Institutional Framework: The public sector will be the primary driver of economic growth in the medium term and will lay the foundation for the Nation’s progress through the development of human resources and managing infrastructure programs. The Government will structure public service to reflect the realities of the Timorese situation and to best drive the economy and jobs growth. In addition, The Sixth Constitutional Government Program will focus on ensuring better service delivery to the population, including improving the quality of works and the efficient, effective and accountable use of public resources, giving special priority to 1 the reform of public administration, 2 the harmonization and standardization of laws and 3 to tax reform.

2.3 The New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States

The UN member states came together to agree on the Millennium Development Goals MDGs in 2000, pledging to achieve them by 2015. However, many countries facing conflicts or post-conflict situations have not achieved the goals set out in the MDGs. Only a small number of these conflict and post-conflict affected states were able to achieve even one or two goals. In 2008, at the 3rd High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra, Ghana, the country delegations in attendance agreed to establish an International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding IDPS comprising of Development Partners and Fragile States initially a group of seven countries which decided to come together to strength its voice to identify how to make development engagement more effective and relevant to the needs of the fragile and conflict affected countries. Official Development Assistance ODA to Timor-Leste Fiscal Year 2016 9 The first meeting of the IDPS, the Dili International Dialogue, was held in Timor-Leste in April 2010, where the g7+, a platform of now 20 member countries was first established and issued its first statement called the Dili Declaration. The Dili Declaration stated that in order to achieve the MDGs, countries had to first restore peace and stability and build strong institutions to deliver the required services. This led to the agreement on a set of Principles for engagement in fragile situations, the “New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States” The New Deal which was presented at