An education strategy that will prepare our youth for employment and achievement in a world that is increasingly competitive and knowledge-based:
1. Investing in early childhood education.
2. Adopting international best practices in teaching and learning.
3. Having first class secondary and tertiary education including vocational schools, that produce experts, professionals and technicians required in commerce and industry.
4. Strengthening the competency in info-communications technology (ICT) for students, teachers and educational administrators including the integration of ICT in school curriculum.
5. Devising programmes that promote life-long learning and widen access to higher education
6. Promoting research, development and innovation both in government-funded institutions and through public private and international partnerships.
7. Adopting cost-effective methods of educating our people through the use of technology.
8. Improving the management of all our educational institutions.
An economic strategy that will create new employment for our people and expand business opportunities within Brunei Darussalam through the promotion of investment, in downstream industries as well as in economic foreign and domestic, both clusters beyond the oil and gas industry:
9. Ensuring continued macroeconomic stability.
10. Ensuring high rates of economic growth so that work is always available for our young people entering the labour market each year.
11. Developing further a strong capital market including the Islamic bond market (sukuk) to help finance domestic growth.
12. Promoting national economic competitiveness through policies that encourage productivity, economic openness and competition
13. Investing in downstream industries and other economic clusters selected on the basis of Brunei Darussalam’s competitive strengths, export potential and employment opportunities for local people.
14. Investing in the world class infrastructure that is required to attract foreign and domestic investment in new export industries.
15. Developing an energy policy that accords proper priority to our oil and gas industry while giving due consideration to the need to create new industries through downstream diversification.
16. Privatising those services currently provided by the public sector that are best undertaken by the private sector.
17. Developing the expertise and skills required by commerce and industry through investment in our educational institutions; in research and development; and through collaboration with business.
18. Promoting international economic cooperation, bilaterally and multilaterally.
19. Encouraging equal opportunities for women in the work force and in nation building.
A security strategy that will safeguard our political stability and our sovereignty as a nation and that links our defence and diplomatic capabilities and our capacity to respond to threats from disease and natural catastrophe:
20. Promoting close coordination between Brunei Darussalam’s diplomatic, defence and intelligence institutions to ensure an integrated approach to national security.
21. Strengthening the security forces, including the armed forces, police and intelligence agencies, so that they are distinguished by high standards of professionalism, training and technological expertise.
22. Implementing new approaches to the development of military infrastructure and to procurement in order to ensure greater efficiency and cost effectiveness, including, where appropriate, through public-private partnerships.
23. Promoting good governance in both the public and private sectors with particular emphasis on honesty and accountability to ensure public confidence and trust.
24. Developing further appropriate systems and organisations for responding quickly and effectively to threats from natural disasters, infectious diseases, acts of terrorism and other emergencies.
25. Safeguarding cultural and social harmony and good citizenship.
An institutional development strategy that will enhance good governance in both the public and private sectors, high quality public services, modern and pragmatic legal and regulatory frameworks and efficient government procedures that entail a minimum of bureaucratic “red tape”:
26. Ensuring a modern legal system that is clear in its provisions and application, and a judiciary system that ensures independence, fairness and impartiality.
27. Introducing regulatory frameworks in line with international best practice, such as those applicable to special economic zones to facilitate competitiveness in promoting foreign direct investment.
28. Building a modern and effective civil service that facilitates national development.
29. Streamlining government procedures and regulations to enable prompt decision-making, provision of high quality public services and minimisation of ‘red tape’.
30. Creating new institutions such as an independent ombudsman to ensure accountability in the public and private sectors.
31. Ensuring that the economic policy is well planned and implemented among the key government agencies and all others involved.
A local business development strategy that will enhance opportunities for local small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as enable Brunei Malays to achieve leadership in business and industry by developing greater competitive strength:
32. Introducing well-designed and well-funded programmes and more effective ways of financing local enterprises to help local SMEs and entrepreneurs gain business skills and become more competitive.
33. Developing incubation centres to assist and promote local SMEs and entrepreneurs in areas such as ICT.
34. Maximising the indirect benefits of foreign direct investments for local SMEs and entrepreneurs.
35. Encouraging the use of local products, local suppliers and contractors by major businesses and industries.
36. Privatising, commercialising and outsourcing of government services as a way of expanding opportunities for local SMEs and entrepreneurs.
37. Reducing the cost of doing business for local SMEs and entrepreneurs by simplifying government procedures
38. Ensuring prompt government decisions and payment to local contractors and suppliers.
An infrastructure development strategy that will ensure continued investment by government and through public-private sector partnerships in developing and maintaining world-class infrastructure with special emphasis placed on education, health and industry:
39. Providing adequate social infrastructure particularly in public housing, health care and education.
40. Adopting appropriate legal and regulatory frameworks to promote investment in social and industrial infrastructure, including privatisation and public private partnerships (PPP) in line with international best practice.
41. Ensuring that funding is available for all priority government infrastructural projects.
42. Reviewing the way government infrastructure contracts are awarded and managed in order to ensure that these contracts are implemented on time and cost effectively.
A social security strategy that ensures that, as the nation prospers, all citizens are properly cared for:
43. Providing an economically sustainable social security system for those of our people least able to cater for themselves.
44. Strengthening programmes which will foster the spirit of entrepreneurship and self-reliance among our people.
45. Providing opportunities for workers in the private sector to enjoy a similar sense of security as those in the public sector.
An environmental strategy that ensure the proper conservation of our natural environment and cultural habitat. It will provide health and safety in line with the highest international practices:
46. Continuing efforts to conserve Brunei Darussalam’s remarkable biodiversity, rain forests and natural habitat.
47. Implementing the highest environmental standards for existing and new industries in Brunei Darussalam in accordance with established international standards and practices.
48. Establishing clear guidelines for the proper preservation of buildings and landmarks of cultural and historical value.
49. Strictly enforcing appropriate regulations regarding the maintenance of environment that affect public health and safety.
50. Supporting global and regional efforts to address trans-border and regional environmental concerns.
