African Union This first objective deals with the way member countries formulate and appropriate policies and strategies for the promotion and acceleration of their socio-economic development process. It is also intended to assess mechanisms and measures put in place for capacity building and financial resources mobilization, allocation and management. QUESTION 1: Describe the policies and strategies formulated by your country to promote and accelerate broad-based sustainable socio-economic development. Indicators a. Describe the legal, political and institutional measures taken to: - b. accelerate Broad-based Sustainable Socio-economic Development (BSSED) in accordance with the declared objectives of NEPAD, formulate growth-oriented sectoral policies (strengthening the capacities of the poor to undertake income-generating activities, improving their access to credit …), promote self-reliant and self-sufficient development through greater integration with other countries in the region and through diversification of production and exports, Indicate results obtained in terms of: - - c. satisfaction, simplification of administrative formalities on request, cost reduction and access to resources and services, in particular with regards to access to potable water, sanitation, social protection, education, health (including the fight against HIV/AIDS and other transmissible diseases), information and communication technologies; Management of formal and informal employment. Specify measures taken to accelerate agricultural production and promote rural development, such as: - equitable distribution and efficient use of land, water and other productive resources; - rural environmental planning based on the creation of rural open-up units, better equipped terms of physical social infrastructure, and open to the national economic environment; - development of farmers‟ associations, cooperatives and other forms of self-reliant, democratic, voluntary organizations of primary producers and rural workers; - incentives measures put in place with a view to increasing investment and production in rural areas; a broad-based rural development through the diversification of rural economic activities (integrated development of agriculture and stock-breeding, fisheries and fish farming, integrated development of forestry and establishment of industrial farms, particularly agro-industries); - mobilization of human resources and increase in production, 75