The document outlines the steps involved in project planning, including assessing the situation, identifying and prioritizing issues, designing the project, and developing implementation, monitoring and evaluation plans. It provides an example of planning an oral hygiene promotion project in a public primary school, and discusses commonly used tools like Gantt charts, logical framework analysis, and intervention mapping. Project planning is important as it helps select important problems and strategies, determine appropriate scope and quality, and identify resources to help implementation and evaluation.