KEY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PLANNING UNIT (UPPRC)

1. Overall Responsibilities

The main responsibilities of the Planning Unit are to:

• Coordinate the formulation of sector policies, programmes and strategies of the Ministry.
• Coordinate and evaluate the implementation of sector policies and national programmes related to infrastructure construction and maintenance;
• Coordinate the drafting of legal and regulatory texts in matters relating to the construction and maintenance of public infrastructure.

2. Specific responsibilities

Personnel in the UPPRC are responsible for planning, monitoring and evaluation of the infrastructure sector, including but not limited to the following areas of work: statistics; financial planning; recruitment of consultants for developing tasks such as master planning, long term investment plan (LTIF), and updating sub-sector policies and strategies; baseline and database establishment; creating and updating planning and monitoring & evaluation guidelines; mid-term and final evaluation of projects; and public expenditure reviews (PER).

3. Scope of services

• Development of planning tools:

1. Public Investment Plan (PIP)
2. Strategic Issues Paper (SIP)
3. Medium  Term  Expenditure Review (MTEF)
4. Annual Budget

• Preparation quarterly and annual action plans
• Preparation of quarterly and annual reports
• Preparation of Governmental decision implementation reports
• Update planning and monitoring & evaluation guidelines
• Support the EDPRS annual review process
• Support regular Joint Sector Review process
• Support public expenditure review process
• Development of training plans
• Implement and maintain baselines and databases in accordance with the national statistics system (DEVINFO) 
• Coordination of all monitoring and evaluation activities, and monitor the policy matrix
• Support the development of the Pluri-Annual Plan (PPA) and prepare reports on the use of earmarked transfers
• Preparation of long term investment plans (LTIF)
• Update sub-sector policies and strategies 
• Evaluation of mid-term and final EDPRS targets
• Periodic meetings with districts