Gabon’s month-long national dialogue intended to lay the groundwork for restoring civilian rule in the Central African nation concludes at the end of April, with delegates proposing a range of options for new governance.

The more than 600 delegates attending the talks in the capital, Libreville, offered scores of recommendations for rebuilding the political, economic, and social organization of the central African nation after more than 60 years of rule by former President Omar Bongo and his family, followed by months of military rule.

Jean Bernard Asseko Mve, a cleric of the Roman Catholic Church and the dialogue’s spokesperson, spoke on Gabon’s state TV on Wednesday. He said the participants were preoccupied with why Gabon has remained poor and underdeveloped despite the central African state’s abundance of natural and mineral wealth, fertile soils, forests and petroleum resources.

Mve added that the first success of the dialogue is that Gabon’s citizens appear to have put their differences behind them and are focused on the well-being of their country and its close to 2.5 million inhabitants.

Emmanuel Mve Mba is chairperson of Gabon’s Inclusive National Dialogue Sub Commission on Employment, which discussed what it calls galloping youth unemployment, one factor government officials believe to be linked to mounting insecurity and highway robbery in the central African state.