Annex 1: Relationships of the e-commerce strategy with higher level plans 1. RELATED TO THE COVID-19 ECONOMIC RELIEF PLAN The relationship between the e-commerce strategy and the COVID-19 Economic Relief Plan are described below by Economic Relief Plan goals as applicable. Many actions applicable to all businesses are included in the Economic Relief Plan. This paper focuses on those particularly relevant to e-commerce. 1.1 Goal 5: Promoting innovative Products and Platforms; Strategy 5.1: Promote Innovative Products The measures under the Relief Plan are directly relevant to e-commerce development and will ensure an early start to a number of measures in the e-commerce strategy. These include: 1.2  Action 5.1.1 (a) intended to promote the use of mobile financial payments services, with government use of such services wherever feasible;  Action 5.1.1 (b) intended to ensure that e-commerce and social commerce service providers only accept electronic payments;  Action 5.1.2 which promotes usage of e-commerce and social-commerce systems by (a) encouraging retail businesses to make use of existing local and overseas e-commerce or social commerce websites, (b) promoting delivery and logistics firms to provide delivery services for such businesses, (c) developing a central e-commerce website for business use and (d) initiating a “Challenge Grant” competition amongst Myanmar’s ICT / e-commerce community for innovative ideas to combat COVID-19. Goal 6: Healthcare Systems Strengthening E-commerce may support measures in the Economic Relief Plan associated with the strengthening of healthcare systems, particularly those used in procurement. Other developing countries procure goods and services using e-procurement including for example Botswana.7 The Botswana Experience The Botswana Government has its own e-procurement system that enables it to manage public sector tenders. This Integrated Procurement Management System is operated by the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPADB). Prospective government contractors can register online in order to bid for government contracts (online registration system for e-procurement). The system is being extended to enable government contractors to submit tender commitment responses to government through the electronic platform. This is being done with the Ministry of Finance. In July 2019, the system was being tested. In addition, the Central Medical Store in the Botswana Ministry of Health uses an Inventory Management System to schedule purchases within individual framework agreements, and the Ministry is implementing a system to enable online stores requisitioning. Private health care providers including private hospitals will be able to requisition using this system and will pay for the stores requisitioned. Such measures are included in this e-commerce strategy to support the purchase and distribution of medical supplies associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and in support of Action 6.1.2: 7 UNCTAD 55