This Guide to Participatory Planning and Management for Lower Local Councils (Uganda) has been prepared to provide councils and agencies working in communities with a framework and guidelines that will form the basis for participatory bottom up planning. The guide also serves as a tool to facilitate local councils review their performance against previous plans. It has been divided into five chapters as follows: (1)Chapter one outlines the purpose and content of the guide (2)Chapter Two describes the participatory planning and management process (3).Chapter Three outlines the Legal and Institutional Framework for participatory planning (4). Chapter Four outlines briefly how to implement a plan (5) Chapter Five outlines the key activities, processes and expected outputs of the participatory planning process and (6) Chapter Six outlines the contents of a Lower Local Government Development Plan.