QUESTION: The Government ofthe Republic of Zambia is about to embark on the development of the National Planning Framework to streamline development planning standards, procedures and accompanying processes in a manner that provides for predictable and measurable development pursuits. In this process, the government is desirous to incorporate or pay attention to global thematic issues, shared regional priorities and local aspirations. In view of the multiplicity of issues to address, the process appears to favour stakeholder collaboration. As a Development Planning expert yourself, provide a stakeholders' analysis as your input in the preparatory stage While justifying the inclusion criteria used for the identified stakeholders in such an important national programme. Examples of relevance to the context will be beneficial