This distance education course is affiliated with the Commonwealth Executive Master of Business Administration and the Commonwealth Executive master of Public Administration programmes. Development Planning and Administration, SC-2, is one of the two specialist compulsory courses for the Commonwealth Executive Masters in Public Administration Programme. The course has been developed in light of existing situations in South Asia in general, and in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, in particular. The course has been subdivided into 25 units and under four main rubrics, which are: (i) development administration: concept and context; (ii) development planning: strategies and challenges; (iii) participatory approaches for development planning and administration; (iv) techniques for development planning.