The National Development Plan 10 (2010-2016) Since Independence in 1966, Botswana adopted an approach of development planning. Government has since then, produced a series of National Development Plans (NDPs) starting with Botswana’s Transitional Plan for Social and Economic Development prepared in 1965. National Development Plan 10, or NDP 10, is the tenth in the series of NDPs. National Development Plans guide the overall development of the country. NDPs contain Government strategies planned to be undertaken over the Plan period. Programmes and projects to be implemented to achieve such strategies are also included in the Plan. The Plan contains estimates of revenue expected over the entire period as well as expenditure and manpower growth projections. The National Population Policy (2010); The Revised National Population Policy aims at improving the quality of life and standard of living in the country. Its cardinal elements are low morbidity and mortality, managed urbanisation, population distribution and migration, improved housing and sanitation, increased access to services and resources, full employment, reduced poverty, diversified economy, sustained and more equality distributed growth. The Revised Policy proposes a number of strategies, which are divided into demographic and population health, population groups, population distribution and migration, social services and poverty, resources, development and environmental conservation, research, information and communication, gender, culture, law and trade and international relations. The Revised National Youth Policy, (2010), whose overall goal is to ensure a systematic integration of youth mainstreaming as a key component for programme development processes within government, the private sector and civil society. It sets out a number of actions aimed at influencing and accelerating the course of change and combining existing measures and new ideas; The Revised National Policy on Rural Development (2002) The National Policy on Gender and Development (2015) and The National Operational Plan, The Government developed the National Policy on Gender and Development (NPGAD, 2015), to guide and inform the development and implementation of gender sensitive and responsive initiatives by all development sectors with the aim of reducing inequalities in the opportunities and outcomes of social, economic, cultural and legal development for both men and women. The Government has further developed a National Operational Plan (NOP,2015) to operationalize the NPGAD policy. These developments reflect the government’s commitment to promote gender equality and equity as means of achieving the goals of sustainable human development. 14 | P a g e