On Thursday (24), the Executive asked Parliament to approve the Government’s Five-Year Programme (PQG) 2025-2029, arguing that it provides ‘foundations for economic and social development’ and also includes strategies to reduce poverty levels.
‘We plan to build 7,440 kilometres of power lines, 3,492 classrooms for primary education, 14 district hospitals, 12,000 social housing units and 1,766 water supply systems in rural areas,’ promised Prime Minister Maria Benvinda Levi during the presentation of the PQG to members of the Assembly of the Republic.
The minister argued that the document is essential to ensure inclusive and sustainable growth, with a focus on economic diversification and job creation. ‘We plan to implement programmes and sub-programmes that will enable us to reduce the pupil-teacher ratio from 68 to 55, raise the net enrolment rate in secondary education from 33% to 58%, the gross enrolment rate in technical and vocational education from 8.2% to 11.2% and increase the coverage of social security programmes from the current 22% to 31%.’
The Prime Minister promised average economic growth of 4% in five years, excluding gas, and 5.5% including gas, as well as per capita income growth from $662 to $736.6, including maintaining the average annual inflation rate at single digits, at 4.5%.
The government has structured the PQG around five pillars: National Unity, Peace, Security and Governance; Structural Transformation of the Economy; Social and Demographic Transformation; Infrastructure, Organisation and Spatial Planning; and Environmental Sustainability, Climate Change and the Circular Economy.
The programme, consulted by Lusa, plans to increase the number of primary school classrooms built to quality and resilience standards to at least 3,492 by 2029 and to hire more than 58,000 primary and secondary school teachers.
In health, the Executive estimates that it will train almost 300 specialist doctors in different areas, develop actions to carry out cervical screening for more than 10 million people and vaccinate more than 7 million children against malaria.
‘It is expected to move forward with the availability of medicines in about 90% of all health facilities by 2029 and to train and raise awareness among more than 5 million young people on sexual and reproductive health, early marriage and HIV.’
With regard to social security, the Government wants to cover at least 5 million beneficiaries of the Basic Social Subsidy (PSSB) by 2029 and ensure that, by the same year, almost 4 million households are using domestic gas.
