The National Planning Commission's (NPC) recently launched strategic plan seeks to oversee National Development Performance by ensuring effective implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Sixth National Development Plan.
NPC's Strategic Plan for 2025/6 - 2029/30 was launched in Windhoek on Thursday.
The NPC's task is to oversee the implementation of National Development Plan 6 (NDP6) across government, ensuring coordinated execution, alignment of institutional plans, resource mobilisation and capacity building for monitoring and delivery. 
In its strategic plan, the commission says it will strengthen implementation and address systemic gaps by enabling stronger Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) systems by finalising a national M&E policy, supporting M&E units in offices, ministries and agencies, and developing an automated online reporting platform.
Executive Director for NPC, I-Ben Nashandi, states, "The M&E is not policing our actions; it is really there to bring to light whether our actions are in tandem with our plans. Therefore, monitoring and evaluation which is in NPC is there to test if we are on course, and we are going to do it every second quarter; we skip one quarter, so it's biannual, and we report also to the Cabinet because the action we report to the Cabinet is the collection of all the OMAs."
The launched strategic plan sits on three pillars, which are the National Development Planning that seeks to strengthen and modernise Namibia's national planning system, ensuring it is integrated, evidence-based, and results-orientated to drive sustainable socioeconomic advancement.
The next pillar is to oversee national development performance by driving the execution and oversight of NDP6 and ensuring its goals are translated into tangible national development.
The last pillar is operational excellence, which focuses on building a high-performing, efficient and modern institution capable of effectively delivering on the Commission's mandate by embracing skills development and enhancing digital capabilities.
" this plan will be subject to reviews periodically, to assess its success and therefore our same unit of monitoring and evaluation department they are not going to spare us they are also going to M&E under the same framework to see whether we are making the contribution we are supposed to see," says Nashandi.
The Executive Director noted that the launched five-year strategic plan builds on the achievements and draws valuable lessons from the just-ended plan for the period 2017/18 - 2024/25.