The Government has established a Planning Commission through the Planning Commission Act of 2023 to coordinate national planning. The Commission is under the President’s Office and as a Think Tank, will work as a network of professionals with reputable expertise and competencies in planning, research, innovation, performance monitoring and evaluation.

The Planning Commission will be responsible for long term planning, performance monitoring and evaluation; conducting research, analysing and advising on sectoral policies, socio-economic developmental issues and current socio-economic policy issues as well as future policy direction.  Consequently, the Planning Commission will conduct creative, insightful and counter intuitive policy analyses on problems of great public importance to provide solutions to be implemented by the Government.