Major Functions

The Ministry’s major functions include:

• Developing, co-ordinating and reviewing the short, medium and long-term policy framework to guide economic and social development, in collaboration with key stakeholders;
  
  
• Advising on the allocation of financial resources consistent with national priorities for social and economic development;
  
  
• Preparing, monitoring, facilitating implementation and reviewing the Public Sector Investment Programme;
  
  
• Securing for the PSIP adequate resources on the most beneficial terms and conditions, including loan and grant resources from the MFI’s;
  
  
• Acting as a liaison between the MFI’s and the Government on matters relating to loan and grant programmes;
  
  
• Evaluating the developmental impacts of programmes and projects;;
  
  
• Collecting, processing and disseminating a range of primary and secondary data in a timely and cost-efficient manner;
  
  
• Building public awareness of available statistical products;
  
  
• Co-ordinating the national statistical system;
  
  
• Co-ordinating, accessing and allocating technical cooperation in support of national institutions and Civil Society, consistent with national development priorities;
  
  
• Co-ordinating and monitoring the implementation of the National Population Policy;
  
  
• Planning the development of the country’s manpower resources;
  
  
• Formulating and employing a comprehensive and accepted national planning policy framework for decision-making on land use and land development;
  
  
• Assisting in the preparation of up-to-date planning legislation aimed at a streamlined participatory and transparent planning system;
  
  
• Re-engineering the delivery system for land use and land development to ensure greater involvement of the THA, municipal and regional corporations and the public;
  
  
• Facilitating the implementation of urban development projects;
  
  
• Preparing facilitating and reviewing the implementation of a National Indicative Programme for the development of priority focal sectors funded by the European Development Fund resources;