SECTION 12

(1) Under the authority of a Division Head, the Division for Research and Planning shall be responsible for: - drafting and monitoring the implementation of the Ministry’s sector strategy; - drafting of the Ministry’s Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) in collaboration with the other administrations concerned; - assistance and advice in the planning of activities of the other services of the Ministry; - monitoring and achieving research, as well as following-up programmes and projects’ implementation, in coordination with the partners concerned; - setting-up instruments of analysis, planning, follow-up, risk management control and projects’ modification; - ensuring coherence between the judicial, penitentiary and administrative maps; - planning and follow-up concerning the construction of Court Houses and prisons; - prospective research to enable efficient deployment of Judicial and Legal Officers, non-Judicial and Legal Officers and Penitentiary personnel; - structuring and implementing partnership between the justice sectors and the penitentiary administration - compiling and updating the projects and statistics bank in the judicial and penitentiary areas. (2) The Division for Research and Planning shall comprise: - the Research Unit; - the Planning Unit.