Africa-Press – Angola. The Cabinet Council approved on Friday in Luanda, the Presidential Decree establishing the principles, rules, and procedures for the draft 2026 State Budget and the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework, during the 6th ordinary session led by president João Lourenço.
Under this decree, the implementation of specific activities and projects must comply with budgetary limits, objectively aligned with the priorities defined in the 2023-2027 National Development Plan.
Finance Minister Vera Daves stressed at the end of the meeting that, within the framework of the instructions for the preparation of the next State Budget, the government is reinforcing the principle of citizen participation through participatory budgeting and municipal budgeting, providing for the active involvement of municipal administrations in this process, which is intended to be carried out further in advance to allow for the most assertive incorporation of these contributions.
According to the minister, another objective is to allow projects already included in the State Budget whose source of funding is ordinary treasury reinforcements, some of which with high physical execution to be prioritized in order to honor commitments to contractors engaged in those projects.
The session also approved the Operational Plan for the New Curriculum and Teaching Model for the 5th and 6th grades, which defines a set of activities that will serve as guidelines for the implementation of a new study plan in the 3rd cycle of primary education.
It states that the implementation of this new teaching model and the respective curriculum proposal for the 5th and 6th grades will take place progressively over a period of five years, comprising five phases, namely, (I) experimentation, monitoring, and evaluation; (II) first phase of generalization and monitoring; (III) evaluation, correction, and second phase of generalization; (IV) total generalization; and (V) impact assessment.
The 6th ordinary session also reviewed the Presidential Decrees approving the Regulations for the Certification of Training Entities and Technical-Professional Secondary Education Institutions, the Presidential Decree approving the Regulations for the Course Accreditation Process, and the Presidential Decree approving the Regulations on Dual Certification Training Courses in Technical-Vocational Secondary Education Institutions.
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