Turkmenistan adopted the Program for Socio-Economic Development of Turkmenistan, 2012-2016 in early 2012. The program specifies the country’s medium-term development targets, and aims to further strengthen the base for the formation of a growing, diversified, highly competitive, and technologically strong economy.

ADB's interim operational strategy for the country has focused on securing improved basic services for the population, maintaining and upgrading the human resource base, building capacity to improve public sector management, improving production efficiency and related policies in agriculture, and ensuring better environment management.