Key Points

Micro planning provides an opportunity to every-one in designing the development plan and meeting requirements for community development. The planning includes both economic and human development. This process contributes towards:

• Enhancing orientation about the community problems such as sanitation, drinking water sources, transport etc. for the community development
• Tapping the natural, physical, financial and human sources for the community development
• Designing suitable solutions to the specific problems of the community
• Increasing unity among different types of community people in the village
• Developing the community through people’s participation in establishing action plans on the 4 risk factors eg; smoke free Maneaba etc.
• Developing the community through people’s participation in establishing action plans on the 4 risk factors eg; smoke free Maneaba etc.

Microplanning is a “bottom-up” process of detailed planning carried out to determine the local needs for PHC and to identify what is available and what is missing in order to ensure smooth and satisfactory PHC implementation. Good microplanning practice entails making special efforts to identify underserved and hard-to-reach populations using findings from equity and other programmatic assessments.