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DECEMBER, 2018
2. According to the recent Population and Housing Census 2017, Punjab is the most
populous province with 52.62 percent (110 million); yet this translates into an overall
decrease of around 2 percentage points in the national population having implications on
future NFC shares. The province may have to cater to a larger size of absolute population
and may have lesser resources at hand. The overall Population density of Punjab has grown
quite rapidly touching 536 per sq. Km in 2017. Punjab‟s urban population was 17 percent of
total population in 1951, which increased to 28 percent in 1981 and to 36.7 percent in 2017.
The province is expecting a demographic transition as the urban population is expected to
grow at much faster rate than the rural population.
3. CPEC‟s momentum has peaked and is now requiring a proactive response by the
government on an increasing basis. The compliance work on SDGs must be paced up as a
top priority, and given the diversity of its indicators; result oriented investments are required
in social as well as productive sectors. The development programme must also be aligned
with the priority areas set for each sector under Punjab Growth Strategy (PGS) 2023. Finally,
it is crucial that the government begins to intensely monitor and evaluate its interventions
and knit in the learnings to improve future planning.
5. Planning & Development Board, Government of the Punjab, intends to ensure that
the formulation process of ADP 2019-20 is strongly directed towards and informed by the
principles of value for money and focused on meaningful public sector investments. The
decreased size of ADP 2018-19 has necessitated increased focus on judicious distribution of
development funds amongst all sectors and all segments of society. Although, the Planning
& Development Board along-with line departments is spending more time in managing the
ADP formulation, however, the quality of the project documents has shown a consistent
erosion of quality which is compromising the implementation status and outcomes of the
projects. The approval timelines of new schemes has become extremely elastic spanning
over almost the entire year. The portfolios of key departments do not gel well to form a
sector programme; rather a collection of projects is usually being termed as a programme.
This sporadic compilation is a result of missing sectoral policy directions for most sectors.
DATE ACTION
th
30 November ADP Formulation Guidelines to be circulated by 30th November;
16th February to Scrutiny of draft ADP by the respective Members of P&D Board
15th March and process completed with departments on board by 15th March;
Briefing Sessions /
Consultations by P&D Board
Submission of Final Draft to Finance 1st to 15th May
Department 25th May
Center
State
District
City
Field
Nutrition & Population Issues: Rapid growth of population is becoming the key and
biggest challenge for the Punjab. The situation becomes even worse when issues of
stunting are combined with this increasing population growth. The Growth Strategy
2018 specifically mentions population growth in the province and its consequences
on stretching the existing scarce resources. The relevant department projects should
address this issue. The P&D Board to address this issue as a matter of priority has
set up the Punjab Population Innovation Fund (PPIF). The PPIF benefitting from the
experience of the District Delivery Challenge Fund under SNG is replicating the
process to identify key innovative ideas to address issues of unmet need as a key
variable to control growth of population. The next year‟s ADP may more strongly
support the population issues in the Punjab. Similarly, the ADP will also support the
nutrition programme for the Punjab.
Development of Human Capital: The government will continue to invest in
converting its population challenges to dividends. This will be done by a continual
investment in skills development of the youth of Punjab. The support to PSDF,
TEVTA and the World Bank PSDP will continue. This year, the departments should
also try to leverage skills in the light of CPEC requirements.
Health, Education & WASH: There will continue to be a stronger tilt towards
spending in education, health and water & sanitation services. However, the focus of
these departments should be more sharply defined while they carefully assess their
role by providing the most essential public services of good quality and bringing
about regulatory reforms that will encourage more private sector partnerships in
delivery of these services. The departments should also strongly consider the
rationale of building new infrastructure or strengthening delivery of services to
citizens. The departments are required to strongly use research to evaluate
investment trade-offs. For example, in education the department should evaluate the
returns to spending on schemes such as giving away new laptops, building new
schools or improving mobility towards existing schools, enhancing teacher quality
and investing in better content and regulating the quality and learning outcomes.
Similarly, under health should the department invest in building new hospitals or
better staffing the existing ones? Evaluation of such trade-offs may be strongly linked
to overall targets of growth and SDGs. Moreover, a stronger consideration should be
given to the deprived and vulnerable communities of the province, in order to achieve
equity.
Agriculture, Livestock & Rural Development: Agriculture is the backbone of
Punjab and is a sector that is increasingly becoming an area of concern due to the
decline of productivity and increase of population. The Punjab has always been self-
sufficient in basic food; however, the decline in agriculture and livestock sectors
coupled with water availability could soon create food security issues for the
province. Moreover, rural income depends on agriculture and livestock and hence
poverty indicators cannot improve without gains in these sectors. The next year ADP
should seek to enhance focus on areas of productivity and skills in the sector. There
should be a much greater focus on agriculture research to address ailments faced by
the sector. The ADP will continue to support allocations on subsidising fertilisers,
providing interest free credit and smart phones for farmer, providing subsidy on
electric tube wells, spending on cotton seed reforms project, strengthening the
More specifically there should be a priority for the Industries Department to finalize
full-scale industrial policy, which can help inform the decision-making regarding
industrial cooperation not only in the CPEC context but also in perspective of the
global opportunity canvass. Moreover, a stronger emphasis should be placed on
finalizing the spatial policy that will lay the grounds of developing new industrial parks
and special economic zones. Finally, a comprehensive land use policy for industrial
development should be developed over the next year.
15. All the above-mentioned ADP guidelines shall be read with the Budget Call Circular
issued by the Finance Department to ensure greater integration of recurrent and
development budget for a more focused approach towards service delivery.
16. All provincial government departments are requested to indicate their proposed
programs under ADP 2019-20 after thorough deliberations and get these countersigned by
the Administrative Secretary accompanying one-page brief indicating vision of the sector,
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What is Consultation?
Consultation is a process through which the „organizing‟ member collects opinions and views
from relevant stakeholders about a pre-defined problem statement or issue. Stakeholder
consultations can take various forms and can be implemented through different consultation
methods (targeted, inter-departmental, intra departments, field formations, academic and
research institutions or a combination of all) and tools (documents, questionnaires, key
informant interviews, focus groups). However, stakeholder consultations must be
distinguished from data collection and collection of expertise. The collection of expertise is
largely done through expert groups or hiring of technical / professional services to develop a
background paper – stakeholder consultations are conducted to collect expression of views
on a specific issue. Therefore, hiring of consultants etc. must not be included in stakeholder
consultation, it may be done separately and reports from such specialists may then be made
part of these consultations. Moreover, stakeholder consultations may be used to discuss and
reflect of data and facts but should not be an exercise to collect data.
In the context of ADP Formulation the consultations to be done by the departments are
absolutely critical in informing the identification of key issues, possible solutions and inputs
required by the departments. The sessions can also help is designing the overall strategic
goals and objectives. The departments are encouraged to identify their key stakeholders and
develop key questions they want to discuss and need views and inputs on. The areas can
include high level policy and strategy questions, identification of issues and responses to
these. A senior member of the department may conduct the dialogue and it should usually
start with a short presentation on existing scenario, research and evidence available under
the topic under consideration. If the departments have conducted some prior studies the
findings and recommendations may be shared at the session. The department should see
consultation as an enlightening process to add a large number of different experiences and views.
Why Consult?
Consultation with a wider set of internal and external parties increases the legitimacy and
hence quality and credibility of the proposals / initiatives. The government has a duty to act
in public interest and ensure best value for money when making financial decisions. Therefore,
good consultations can provide a comprehensive overview of differing interests, structuring of
the available information and collecting different views to reach practical solutions, provision of
high quality, reliable information is crucial to the process. The Policy and Strategic Plan should
thus be done prior to departments submitting the ADP for the next year.
What principles must be observed?
As per global good practices „five‟ key principles must be adhered to whilst conducting
stakeholder consultations:
i. The farming of issues under discussion, documents, information etc. must be clear
and concise;
ii. All members must be given a fair chance to represent their views;
iii. Identification of stakeholders must be strategic and reflective of the issue being
discussed;
iv. Participants are notified about consultations timely ensuring availability and
preparation;
v. Conclusions and key points for sessions are shared with all participants for
concurrence.
Key
Narrative Means of
performance Costs Timeline Responsibility Assumptions
Summary verification
indicators
Goal: 1. Total GDP growth per 1. Gross Provincial Cost of individual 1. Over 3 year period 1. PSD Core group 1. Provincial
A more competitive quarter for the Product calculated by actions are proposed comprising of governments
Punjab that can province in Pak BOS below in detailed I,C&ID, PBIT, P&D commitment to
Rupees and US$ 2. Number of new jobs Board, TEVTA, private sector led
achieve a 7-7.5% activity list
2. New employment created estimated by PSIC & PIE growth
growth p.a. and generated per quarter BOS 2. Ability of BOS
create a minimum of in numbers 3. Change in enhanced to get
1 million jobs a year 3. Average growth of employment figures accurate estimates of
GDP over the next 5 estimated by BOS GDP and
years 4. Punjab Economic employment
Report 3. Macro-economic
5. Punjab conditions remain
Competitiveness sufficiently stable to
Report allow growth and
development
4. Security conditions
do not worsen further
Purpose: 1. Improved regulations 1. Number of policy Cost of individual 1. On-going 1. P&D Board and 1. PSD policy stays a
To create an enabling and monitoring changes made actions are proposed Bureau of Statistics priority
environment for 2. Adequate quality and having direct impact below in detailed 2. Stakeholder 2. Implementation of
quantity of on private sector departments suggested time
private sector led activity list
infrastructure facilitation including C&I bound activities
growth by improving 3. Availability of trained 2. Number of critical Department, PBIT, 3. Ministries coordinate
governance, workforce to respond infrastructure PIE, TEVTA, PSIC, and are able to
facilitating creation of to market demand projects initiated PCB and PAMCO implement elements
efficient factor 4. Improved investment 3. under leadership of
markets, developing climate Chief Minister‟s
world class business 5. Better access to high Office.
value added
environment,
domestic and export
competitive markets
companies and
productive people
2. Production, Value- 1. Develop a 1. Development of an Costs are listed as per 1. 12 months for first 1. BOS & PERI to work 1. Resource availability
addition and productivity and index inputs/activities stated statistic to be on the development 2. Assumes cluster
adaptability to value addition index 2. Production of below – The United produced of the statistic, C&I initiatives not based
of all key sector in statistics 2. Repeated at the D to coordinate on protectionism and
technological change Kingdom Department
Punjab frequency of CMI 2. The census of subsidies but on
capability of the 2. Value addition as a of Trade & Investment data manufacturing removing public
Private Sector percentage of total has a „value addition‟ industries data can sector bottlenecks,
enhanced output score card. The same be used to create providing public
template can be this index. DFID goods or correcting
replicated by Punjab. TAMA can provide market failures
initial support to
develop basic set of
indicators using the
CMI data
3.Quality of the 1. Increase in 1. Statistics produced Costs are listed as per 1. Statistics 1. BOS & PERI to 1. Ability of BOS and
Human Resource employment 2. Feedback reports inputs/activities stated produced quarterly coordinate with PERI to collect
improved 2. Increase on export of produced below TEVTA and C&I D. reliable data and
skilled labour from statistics.
Punjab 2. Willingness and
3. Number of resource availability
international to TEVTA to upgrade
certifications the training and skills
4. Effective user base of Punjab
feedback
4.Implementation of 1. Number of meetings 1. Meeting minutes Costs are listed as per 1. Every three 1. I,C&ID to coordinate 1. All participants
the strategic and held of the PSD Core and reports inputs/activities stated months meetings of the PSD showing ownership of
policy actions group to review produced by below Core Group strategy
implementation department implementation
strengthened
2. Number of actions actions and willing to
implemented on coordinate with C&I D.
schedule 2. Resources being
made available to
line departments for
implementing
strategic actions
4. New Schemes
Provide a list of new schemes for next year ADP and state which areas mentioned in
part 3 above are complied with.
Each new PC document should contain the following table duly filled:
Goal 3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Goal 4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong
learning for all
Goal 5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Goal 6 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation
for all
Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Goal 8 Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and
productive employment and decent work for all
The Planning & Development Board over the course of the last 2 years has worked towards
streamlining the process of Annual Development Programme (ADP) formulation. The ADP
formulation guidelines and ADP formulation strategy documents prepared by P&D Board
has introduced certain measures that define certain deadlines in the process cycle and also
lists requirements for departments to develop strategic list of priorities, quality of PC-Is / PC-
IIs and other similar requirements. The Department Development Index (DDI) is an attempt
to develop key indicators to track performance of the departments on these new introduced
processes. This is broadly an abstract index and indicators have been defined with
indicators that are easy to track and monitor at the P&D Board level.
The Index includes 7 key indicators with sub-indicators as below:
1.2 State the exact percentage of PC-Is / PC-IIs signed off by the Administrative Secretary
1.3 Quality of PC-Is / PC-IIs submitted / prepared as per 3.1 / 3.2 above
1.5 What is the Ratio of Number of Projects Approved to DDSC Meetings held?
1.9 % of PC-Is / PC-IIs sent back with serious reservations or rejected by PDWP
(Rs. In Million)
Project Code Estimated
(ADP 2019-20 Proposed)
(LO No.) Cost Throw
Exp.
Old GS Approval / Projection Projection Forward
Sr. Name of Constituency Major Major upto Grand
No. District Tehsil Revision for for beyond
No. Scheme No. (NA / PP) Components Targets June, Local Foreign Aid Total Total
2018-19 Date 2020-21 2021-22 June,
2019
Cap. Rev. F.Aid Total 2022
Cap. Rev. Cap. Rev. Cap. Rev.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1. Preliminary Information
Name of Department /
Agency
Details of Focal Person:
Name:
Designation:
Address:
Telephone No.:
E-mail:
Fax No.:
2. Project Description
2.1) Project Title
Name / Title of the proposed project
2.2) Explain the Proposed Project Idea
It should cover the following headings
a. Problem Statement (Maximum 100 words)
Executive Summary
Any engagement of department with press, international media, events at provincial, national
and international level. Also provide what the department intends to do over the next year
against which the next year report will be published.