The National Development Plan 10 (2009-2016)
Botswana’s NDPs are grand scheme policy frameworks, which define the country’s medium-term development goals and strategies. The current plan started in December 2009 and runs until 2016. The 10th NDP was the first of its kind to incorporate a results-based approach; but climate change is not a priority issue under the plan and it does not formulate a coherent policy framework for this area. Still, there are several policy elements of relevance to climate change. For example, in the transport sector, the plan sets an aspirational target of reaching 5% of biodiesel of total diesel consumption by 2016. The plan lists several climate change relevant initiatives and programmes in the forestry and energy sectors, including: the Community-Based Natural Resource Management Programme and the Renewable Energy-Based Rural Electrification Programme.
