Planning is an organized process that involves anticipating future problems and goals, evaluating alternatives to achieve those goals, and determining actions, resources, and timelines. It is important for anticipating and avoiding future issues, developing effective courses of action, understanding risks and options, and revising strategies based on outcomes and impacts. Planning occurs at multiple levels from personal to national and includes different types like purposes, objectives, strategies, policies, procedures, programs, and budgets. The key steps in the planning process are recognizing the need, determining objectives and alternatives, forecasting the future, evaluating options, selecting actions, implementing, and revising plans. In Pakistan, the Ministry of Planning oversees national development planning while Provincial Planning Boards

1. Planning in Public Administration
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2. Planning
• Planning is that activity that concern itself with proposal for
future, evaluation of alternative proposals and with method
by which these proposals may be achieved.”
• Planning is the thinking process that involves activities
required to achieve a desired goal.
• Planning is an organized attempt to anticipate and to make
rational arrangement for dealing with future problems by
projecting trends.
• Planning is act of determining the organizational objectives,
goals and means of achieving them.
• A goal is a desired outcome that an organization attempts to
realize.
• Resources, actions and timelines to achieve set goals.

3. Why Planning is Important ?
• To anticipate and avoid future problems.
• To develop an effective and appropriate course of
action.
• To comprehend risks and uncertainties with the
available options.
• To evaluate outputs, outcome and impact and
readjust future strategy.
• To set standards.

4. Levels of Planning

5. Levels of Planning in PA
1. National level is made at the country level.
2. Provincial level is made at the provincial level.
3. Organization level is made at organization level.
4. Department level is made of department level.
5. Unit level is made at unit level.
6. Personal level plan could be professional plan or
private plan.

6. Types of Plan
1. Purpose or Mission
2. Objectives or Goals
3. Strategies
4. Policies
5. Procedures
6. Rules
7. Programs
8. Budgets

7. Planning Process
1. Recognizing the need for planning;
2. Determining the objectives;
3. Forecasting the future;
4. Determining alternatives
5. Evaluating Alternatives
6. Selecting a course of action
7. Implementing the plan
8. Revising the plan

8. Ministry of Planning
Development & Reform, Pakistan
Functions:
1. To prepare comprehensive national plan for socio-economic
development of the country
2. To formulate within the framework of national plan, of annual
plan and annual development programs projects and programs of
national development.
3. Monitoring the implementation of all major development
projects and programs
4. Continuous evaluation of economic situation and coordination
of economic policies
5. Examination and technical appraisal of development projects
received from Federal Ministries and Provincial Government for
consideration of Central development working Party (CDWP)/
Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC).

9. Provincial Planning & Development Board
Functions:
1. To prepare Annual Development Program in
coordination with other departments
2. To prepare Five Year and other development
plans
3. To clear Schemes to be sent to ECNEC/CDWP 4.
To coordinate External Capital Assistance

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