- Enhance organizational and institutional capacities of the Ministry
- Have draft law on NGOs enacted and executed
- Have policies and government framework for annual national development planning and implementation finalized and adopted
- Devise policies and plans to effectively attract and sustain international cooperation and funding for state development plans and programmes
- Devise policies and plans to attract regional and international investment
- Establish basic statistical data collection system
- Establish well-functioning M&E system
- Preparation of SWS Drought Recovery Plan from October 2017 to March 21, 2019 (18 months)