National Planning Commission (NPC) - STRATEGIC PLAN 2021 -2030

This document is the first ever Strategic Plan for the National Planning Commission (NPC). NPC was established through an Act of Parliament in 2017 with the main mandate of coordinating the formulation of the country's medium- and long-term plans as well as overseeing their implementation.

This Strategic Plan provides the pathway for the Commission from 2021 to 2030, building on the achievements and experiences of the Commission in its first three years of existence, since its establishment in 2017.

Within its nascent years, the Commission has facilitated development and launch of the Malawi 2063 (MW2063) Vision, which has replaced the Malawi Vision 2020. The MW2063 aims to transform Malawi into an inclusively wealthy and self-reliant industrialized upper middle-income country by the year 2063. Henceforth, the Commission is mandated to oversee effective, coordinated, and inclusive implementation of the MW2063 by all stakeholders at all levels. The operationalization of MW2063 will be guided by a series of MW2063 10 year Implementation Plans (MIPs). The MIPs will be the main reference frameworks for sectoral annual planning and budgeting.

Through the SWOT analysis, the Strategic Plan has acknowledged the internal strengths and weakness of the Commission as well as existing opportunities and threats, which are external to the Commission. It also provides feasible solutions to guide the Commission implement its legal mandate in the next ten years. The Strategic Plan has, therefore, positioned MW2063 at the centre of the Commission, providing implementation and monitoring oversight and guidance to all the implementation partners by building its institutional capacity, strengthening partnerships, as well as disseminating knowledge generated from research for programming and policy making.