Formulate, under the directions of the Governor and those contained in the development plan, the territorial development policies and designing relevant strategies to ensure that they comply.
Coordinate the work of formulating the Plan of departmental development with the secretariats, decentralized entities of the Department and other departmental agencies.
Coordinate the activities of all entities and public bodies of the Department to ensure proper enforcement and execution of policies, programmes and projects contained in the departmental Development Plan.
Advise agencies and departmental entities in the elaboration of sectoral plans in accordance with the guidelines of the national policy, the departmental plan and municipal plans.
Advise the departments and organizations decentralized in the preparation of annual action plans.
Coordinate national, departmental and municipal public investment in the territory of the Department.
Develop the Financial Plan of the Department in coordination with the Secretariat of finance.
Develop the annual operating Plan investments in the Department.
Organizing and directing the Bank's programs and departmental investment projects and register the respective projects considered viable.
Designing information systems of monitoring and evaluation of investment projects and noted in mandatory charge, terms and conditions.
Organize the statistical information from the Department system and the system of economic and social accounts as tools to assess the impact of government policies.
Coordinate, direct, and implement the system of geographic information in the Department.
Maintain up-to-date departmental planning status.
Identify and promote projects of international technical cooperation, held in support of the management of the Department and its monitoring and evaluation.
Design and organize the departmental Council of statistics, CODE and advise the creation of local councils of statistics, EATS.
Guide and assess national and regional plans of special character who is ahead in the departmental territory, in accordance with current regulations, and consideration of the nation and its decentralized agencies, Government's proposals the branch for the inclusion of the relevant municipalities as benefits of the same.
Develop studies and proposals for the segregation, aggregation of municipal territories, province and regions.
Serve as an advisory body to the State Government for the formulation of municipal Department decentralization policy as well as for the comprehensive support to municipalities in the process of planning and institutional strengthening.
Support to municipalities to advance programs that involve the recruitment of public credit, financing or any system of financing for local projects.
Serve as a liaison with the nation for purposes of administrative assistance and comprehensive institutional development that is bound to the municipalities, in aspects of sectoral and territorial planning should only be undertaken.
Issue the concepts that apply pursuant to powers granted by the law.
Provide technical assistance to municipalities and provinces with the aspects related to planning in accordance with current regulations and in coordination with the relevant entities, where this place.
Provide and promote training, training and technical assistance to municipalities, administrative entities and local authorities, communities and agencies Administrators local Department, on topics relating to the
management of planning rules.
Coordinate the preparation of the annual report of the status of the implementation of development plans that the State Government should submit to the Assembly.
Others who attributed the constitutional, legal and ordenanzales regulations arising from the nature of the dependency.