This Planning Guide outlines the background to participatory development planning in Lower Local Governments in Uganda, describes the planning steps and processes, and provides a three-year development plan format. It provides the framework and indicative approaches that Lower Local Governments can select from to prepare comprehensive and rolling three-year development plans. Each LLG is therefore expected to customize the proposed approaches to its particular situation. It should be used in consultation with the HPPG for parishes/wards, the standardized training materials related to development planning, the District Planning Guidelines, Capacity Building Guidelines and other planning related guidelines. In this Guide some of the key cross-references have been indicated.