Since 1995, the Ministry of Planning has been responsible for preparation of the annual, rolling, three years Public Investment Programme (PIP) to reflect the priorities of the Royal Government for capital and technical assistance needs to implement its development strategies. In preparing the PIP, 2006-2008, 2007-2009 and 2008-2010 we ensured that to the extent possible and within limitation of inadequate data, the PIP allocations corresponded to the envisaged sectoral allocations in the National Strategic Development Plan, 2006-2010 (NSDP).

We have refined the process further in preparing the attached PIP, 2007-2009 and 2008-2010. We held extensive, one-to-one consultations with many ministries and agencies in order to sensitise them to the need to ensure that all their submissions for the PIP were meant to directly address NSDP priorities. Furthermore, we also shared the first draft with all our External Development Partners (EDPs) and took their valuable inputs, comments and suggestions into account.