| 1 | Setting strategic objectives for the entire census document programme - developing the census project | Overall census planning | Census project document | Census office | 17 | 3.9 |
| 1 | Setting strategic objectives for the entire census document programme - developing the census project | Preparation of the Census Strategic Documents | Plan for publicity, data processing, PES, enumeration etc | Census task team | 17 | 3.9 |
| 2 | Statistical capacity assessment | Carry out an assessment of the NSO capabilities | Report on training needs | Census task team | 17 | 3.9 |
| 3 | Develop a census calendar | Map out all census activities | Detailed census calendar | Census task team | 17 | 3.9 |
| 4 | Administrative organisation and management structure | Establishment of an internal census task team | Letter indicating appointment of the National census Coordinator (NCC) | NSO management team | 3 | 3.9 |
| 5 | Convening government stakeholders | Presentation of Census Plan and Budget to the Ministry of Finance | Endorsement of the Census plan and Budget by the Ministry of Finance | Statistical Planning (SP) & Analysis Team | 2 | 3.2 |
| 6 | Organisation of commissions and committees | Establishment of Census Organisational Structures, Steering and Technical committees | Letter indicating appointment of the NCC | Census task team | 8 | 3.2 |
| 7 | Consultation with users | Convening stakeholder meetings | Meeting minutes | Census secretariat | 31 | 3.2 |
| 8 | Financial management | Budgeting, mobilisation of funding for census to kick start mapping and other preliminary activities | Funding status of budget | Steering committee | 2 | 3.2 |
| 9 | Quality assurance | Decision to use a census monitoring dashboards, issues tracker and other digital tools and methods | Consensus on the appropriate digital tools to be used for quality assurance and monitoring | Census task team | 2 | 3.2 |
