The First National Forum, which took place in 2003 and provided the Government of Cabo Verde with a platform for economic transformation, engaged all stakeholders, including political parties, the private sector, parliament, professionals in the country and in the diaspora and civil society in general, in a substantive dialogue on the state of the economy and the strategy for economic transformation.
At that time, the Nation was at a crossroads because the Government had just completed the first year of its first term, having arranged a series of strategic exercises, including the Major Planning Options, the Interim Strategic Plan for Poverty Reduction (iPRSP) and retreats of Government officials, all of them in search of options for expanding the productive base to make the country’s economy grow rapidly.
