The relationship between electoral promises and state planning constitutes one of the central problems of contemporary democratic governance. In Peruvian political systems characterized by party fragmentation, low institutional trust and weak state capacities, the government plan tends to operate as a piece of electoral communication rather than as a technical tool for public leadership. However, when such a plan is formulated with a focus on results, indicators, territorialization, fiscal consistency and coordination with the instruments of the planning system, it can become a bridge between democratic representation, the public agenda and state action.
By: Lucas Z. Granda.
In the Peruvian case, the National Strategic Development Plan (PEDN) to 2050 defines a long-term architecture organized around four national objectives: the full development of people’s capacities; sustainable management of the territory in the context of risks and climate change; increased competitiveness and productivity with decent employment, science, technology and digital transformation; and the guarantee of a just, democratic, peaceful society and an effective State at the service of people (CEPLAN, 2023). From this perspective, the 2026-2031 government plans should be evaluated not only by the breadth of their proposals, but also by their capacity to engage with that strategic architecture.
To what extent are the government plans of the political organizations analyzed linked to the National Strategic Development Plan to 2050 and to the institutional logic of the National Strategic Planning System (SINAPLAN)? This question does not seek to assess ideologies or electoral preferences; it aims to evaluate the documentary coherence between programmatic offers and the state planning framework. The analysis is based on the documents provided: the research document provided from the documentary review by the researcher in charge, the government plans of seven political organizations and the PEDN to 2050.
The linkage of government plans with the Peruvian planning system exists, but it is Uneven. In some cases, there is an explicit formal linkage with the PEDN, including through references to national objectives, CEPLAN or SINAPLAN; in others, the relationship is implicit, since the proposals coincide with the PEDN’s major fields of intervention, an explicit theory of change or a sufficiently traceable operational design. Therefore, the quality of the linkage must be measured at several levels: formal, thematic, operational, territorial and institutional.
This programmatic linkage of the 2026-2031 government plans with the PEDN to 2050 and the Peruvian planning system poses several tasks: First, to reconstruct the conceptual and regulatory framework of strategic planning applicable to the Peruvian case; second, to identify the correspondences between the government plans and the four national objectives of the PEDN; third, to assess the operational density of the plans based on the problem-objective-indicator-target chain; and fourth, to propose technical criteria to improve the articulation of government plans with SINAPLAN.
