Roles and Responsibilities
The Planning Unit is responsible for the following tasks:
- Provide strategic policy guidance related to overall Local Government’s long-term objectives in line with national objectives;
- Coordinate preparation, implementation, review and reporting on Five-Year Plans, Annual Plans and Budgets for respective Local Governments (District & Counties) in line with national objectives;
- Coordinate preparation, implementation, review and report on Annual Performance Agreement and Targets for the Dzongkhag Sectors and Gewog Administrations;
- Monitor, review and provide both physical and financial progress of plans and programs regularly, quarterly, mid-yearly and annually and submit periodic progress reports to Gross National Happiness Commission;
- Coordinate and conduct Mid-year, Annual, Mid-term and Terminal Review of plans and programmes and carry out follow up actions;
- Liaise with Central Agencies, Dzongkhag, Sectors, Local Government Offices and Regional Offices with regards to overall Dzongkhag’s priority objectives to build synergy, collaboration and teamwork in the Dzongkhag;
- Carry out research, studies and rapid assessment on local emerging issues and recommend policy options;
- Facilitate, address and debottleneck issues related to local planning and plan implementation;
- Be the focal point for Resource Allocation Framework, Planning Frameworks, Gross National Happiness, and cross sectoral themes like Sustainable Development Goals, Gender, Poverty, Climate, Environment, Disaster etc.; and
- Perform other works as assigned by Parent Agency (Gross National Happiness Commission and Dzongkhag/Thromde administration.
Additional Responsibilities
- Focal Person, Government Performance Management System (GMPS)
- Focal Person, Global Environment Facility (GEF-LDCF) Projects
- Focal Person, Tourism Council of Bhutan/Tourism Flagship Program
- Focal Person, Ministry of Labour & Human Resources (MoLHR)
- Focal Person, Ministry of Economic Affairs (MoEA)
- Focal Person, Royal Monetary Authority (RMA)
- Focal Person, Global Environment Facility (GEF), UNDP
- Focal Person, Civil Society Organization Grant, HELVETAS
- Registrar, Dzongkhag Cooperatives Registrar
- Member Secretary, Mainstreaming Reference Group (MRG)
- Member Secretary, Internal Review Committee for Annual Performance Agreement (IRC-APA)
- Member, Dzongkhag Finance Committee (DFC)
- Member, Dzongkhag Environment Committee (DEC)
- Member, Town Development Committee (TDC)
- Member, Dzongkhag Disaster Management Committee (DDMC)
- Member, Dzongkhag Human Resource Committee (DHRC)
- Member, JICA- Local Government Support Program
- Member, Beautification Group
- Member, Dzongkhag Multi-Sectoral Task Force