From the above-mentioned document you will learn that governments have an important coordinating function. Coordination of Interventions discusses the issues arround coordination. It provides arguments favouring and against coordination. And hopefully it helps governments that would like to revise their planning procedures.

Besides documents discussing the role and functions of the government this page contain four links to documents that describe best planning practices of service providers and governments in low and middle-income countries.

Basics in Planning describes general elements of planning. These elements always come back some way or another. The document discusses the identification, ranking, screening, and programming processes.

Multi-sector Planning presents planning approaches that allow for creating synergies through early stage coordination mechanisms.

Chapter 2 of the document "Financing Infrastructure" provides important information about financial sustainable development of service providers. An important issue to service providers operating in low and middle-income countries.

The aspects of environmental planning are discussed in Public Health & Environment.