الملخص الإنجليزي
The study attempts to identify the social dimensions in the Ninth Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) as the final plan of the series of plans in the second long-term development strategy. The Sultanate is preparing the third long-term development strategy (2020-2040) which calls for the need to evaluate the second long-term development strategy (1995-2020) and the five-year plans it contains, and to determine the extent of its attention to the social dimensions of development Accordingly, the present study aims to analyze the social dimensions of the ninth five-year development plan. Thus, the study relied on the method of analysis content, which was applied to the document of the ninth five-year plan.
The study reached a number of results, the most important of which were: the objectives of the plan included many developmental dimensions. The analysis of the contents of the plan showed that it is characterized by accuracy, clarity, realism, flexibility and activating popular participation in preparing the plan and using scientific methodology in providing services to citizens. The plan achieved flexibility through the preparation of various scenarios for the Omani economy, in anticipation of the fluctuations in oil prices and their impact on the financial situation in the Sultanate. In many of the provisions of the plan, it is considered to take into account the regional dimension of development, and the need to distribute the fruits of development in a fair manner to all governorates, The results indicated that the percentage of the social dimension represented in the Ninth Five-Year Plan was 28%, which is a good percentage, reflecting the interest in the social dimension of development and taking it into account in the development of development policies and plans. The results of the analysis also showed that the most social groups on which the plan was focused were the youth group.
The results also indicated that the plan did not specify the percentage of expenditure on the social structures separately, but the plan showed in its financial framework the total current expenditure and investment expenses. The investment program or new projects for social objectives were not mentioned separately in the plan, but included the investment program of the plan in the investment program in general.
