The Ministry of Planning Development & Special Initiatives (Urdu: وزارت منصوبہ بندی ترقی و خصوصی امور , abbreviated as MoPD) is headed by the Minister for Planning Development & Special Initiatives, who must be a member of Parliament of Pakistan.

The administrative head of the Ministry is the Planning and Development Secretary of Pakistan.

The main objectives of PPMI are to improve technical and analytical skills and enhance expertise of the federal, provincial and district governments' officers through training in areas of Project Management, Social development and application of information technology in project management.

[7] The National Fertilizer Development Centre (NFDC) was set up by the government in 1977.

With the help of foreign funding NFDC studies all fertilizer-related problems from the supply source to the farmers' fields, with a view to helping in the formulation of Government policies and their implementation and to give support to other institutions.