PLANAPP

What PLANAPP does

PLANAPP (Centro de Planeamento e de Avaliação de Políticas Públicas) is Portugal's central body for strategic planning and public-policy evaluation. It coordinates national planning instruments such as Grandes Opções (GO) and the medium-term structural-budget framework POENMP, and operates the REPLAN network of 26 public organisms across 15 governmental areas. Its core products are policy dashboards, interactive applications, microlearning modules, podcasts, and methodological toolkits (including the Toolkit das desigualdades, co-developed with CoLABOR).

Underlying technology is a content-and-data platform: data visualization dashboards, lightweight interactive web applications, microlearning/quiz modules, podcast distribution, and publication workflows. The architecture is institutional rather than commercial — built to support cross-ministry coordination, evidence-informed policy making, and international benchmarking.

The business model is publicly funded under the Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência (PRR) / Next Generation EU framework, allocated through the Portuguese State Budget. There is no commercial revenue stream; PLANAPP's "customers" are Portuguese ministries and public agencies, and its international counterparties (OECD, EU JRC, UN DESA, APRM, SIDS, FCT, OM, CoLABOR) function as collaboration partners rather than paying clients. Growth in scope and mandate is financed by EU and national budget cycles.

Name

PLANAPP

Legal name

PLANAPP – Centro de Planeamento e de Avaliação de Políticas Públicas

Website

https://planapp.gov.pt

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

PLANAPP is Portugal's public Center for Planning and Public Policy Evaluation, coordinating national planning instruments and the REPLAN network of 26 public organisms, producing dashboards, microlearning tools, podcasts, and methodological toolkits for the Portuguese government.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Policy Planning and Evaluation Services

NAICS

Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (9251), Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (925)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Central Government Policy, Strategy & Performance (incl. OMB-style functions) (BPAIAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Budgeting & Fiscal Planning (BPAIAEAA), Policy, Regulatory & Public Affairs Research (BPAHALAF)

Keywords

• Public policy planning
• Policy evaluation services
• Government planning instruments
• Policy monitoring dashboards
• Strategic foresight public administration

Headquarters

HQ city

Lisboa

HQ country

Portugal

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Government Budget Funding: PLANAPP operates as a public institution funded through the Portuguese government budget, specifically under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) framework with Next Generation EU support. The agency provides services free of charge to public administration and citizens.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

PLANAPP (Centro de Planeamento e de Avaliação de Políticas Públicas) is Portugal's public policy planning and evaluation center, responsible for coordinating national planning instruments (Grandes Opções, POENMP), producing evidence-based studies, monitoring policy implementation through interactive dashboards, coordinating the REPLAN network of 26 public organisms, and providing methodological guides, policy briefs, and microlearning tools for public administration professionals.

Product overview

PLANAPP (Centro de Planeamento e de Avaliação de Políticas Públicas) is Portugal's public policy planning and evaluation center that operates as a multi-product platform offering dashboards, interactive quiz applications, microlearning tools, publications (studies, analysis notes, methodological guides, policy briefs), podcasts, and strategic planning instruments. The core offerings include interactive digital tools such as quiz applications (Política Pública em Quiz series) and microlearning modules for public policy education, monitoring dashboards covering health workforce (SNS), fertility, gender equality, and socioeconomic indicators, as well as strategic publications including the Roteiro Nacional para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável 2030, Grandes Opções, and POENMP planning instruments. The REPLAN network coordinates multidisciplinary teams producing monitoring, evaluation, and foresight products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Public Policy in Quiz: Main Options (Política Pública em Quiz: Grandes Opções) Interactive quiz application presenting Portugal's national planning instrument Grandes Opções (GO) through six interactive questions, enabling users to explore the planning instrument briefly and interactively. Targeted at public administration professionals, students, and citizens interested in public policy.
• Microlearning: Public Policy Evaluation (Microlearning: avaliação de políticas públicas) Interactive microlearning application exploring public policy evaluation concepts through a practical, fictional case study inspired by real experiences. Designed for capacity building of public administration professionals.
• Public Policy in Quiz: POENMP (Política Pública em Quiz: POENMP) Interactive quiz application presenting Portugal's Medium-Term Structural Budgetary Plan (POENMP) through five questions for users to explore their knowledge about this planning instrument.
• Microlearning: Theory of Change (Microlearning: Teoria da Mudança) Educational microlearning application explaining the purpose of Theory of Change and how it can be used through interactive questions for public policy practitioners.
• Microlearning: Preparing a Policy Evaluation (Microlearning: como preparar uma avaliação de políticas) Microlearning application exploring the concept of evaluability assessment through a practical fictional example to explain how to create conditions for conducting policy evaluations.
• Inequality Toolkit (Toolkit das desigualdades) Qualitative ex-ante evaluation methodology developed with CoLABOR for PLANAPP to assess the potential effect of policies on inequalities. Includes manual and experimental application exercises targeting public administration policy designers.
• Policy Monitoring Dashboards Suite Suite of interactive dashboards providing monitoring indicators for Portugal's socioeconomic development across key policy domains, including SNS healthcare workforce analysis, family and fertility policies, gender equality, and demographic indicators. Targets public administration and policy researchers.
• Family Policies and Fertility Dashboard (Políticas de Família e Fecundidade) Interactive visualization tool comparing family policies and fertility indicators across 27 EU countries, combining sociodemographic indicators with family policy metrics for evidence-based policy design.
• Grandes Opções (GO) Planning Instrument National planning instrument defined in the Portuguese Constitution, presented to the Assembly of the Republic as a Law Proposal, establishing vision, priorities and strategic guidelines for Portuguese public policy over the legislative cycle.
• POENMP - Medium-Term Structural Budgetary Plan (Plano Orçamental-Estrutural Nacional de Médio Prazo) Medium-term structural budget plan replacing the National Reform Program and Stability Program, establishing budgetary commitments and reform priorities for a four-year period aligned with EU country-specific recommendations. PLANAPP coordinates its elaboration.
• RNDS 2030 - National Roadmap for Sustainable Development 2030 (Roteiro Nacional para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável 2030) Guiding instrument to support implementation of Agenda 2030 in Portugal and promote progress of Sustainable Development Goals. Coordinated by PLANAPP as a key national planning reference.
• PLANAPP 360º Podcast Podcast series featuring interviews and discussions on public policy topics, balance of webinars, and analysis of PLANAPP publications. Distributed via Spotify and YouTube targeting policy professionals and the general public.
• Policy Briefs Series Synthesis and analysis documents of public policies developed to support evidence-based policy formulation, covering topics including soil regeneration, water governance, and other sustainability challenges.
• Methodological Guides (Guias Metodológicos) Methodological guides on topics including public policy evaluation, legislative impact assessment, monitoring and participatory evaluation. Developed for use by Portuguese public administration professionals and researchers.
• 2050 Megatrends Report (Relatório das Megatendências 2050) Report analyzing megatrends that will shape Portugal's future until 2050, developed by REPLAN with PLANAPP support, providing long-term strategic foresight for national policy planning.

Quantifiable outcome

• SNS healthcare workforce density comparison: 56.5% of NHS levels, worsening from 60.5% in 2018
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

17 partnerships are on record, tiered core, minor and major.

• UN DESA / United NationscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2026Participation in HLPF 2026 at UN headquarters. PLANAPP Director presented RNDS 2030 and Portuguese SDG implementation experience. Involvement in SIDS partnerships and Lusophone Municipal Cooperation initiatives.
• African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2026Co-organized event with APRM and OECD on coordinated action to accelerate Agenda 2030 and Agenda 2063. Shared Portuguese experience on policy coherence and strategic coordination.
• INESC TECmajorTechnology or Integration · 1 April 2026INESC TEC co-organized open data webinar series exploring research data management, FAIR practices, and data management plans. Also collaborated on Science4Policy workshops and policy brief training.
• Conselho Nacional do Ambiente e do Desenvolvimento Sustentável (CNADS)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2026Collaboration on Portugal 2050: Cenários e Visão project. Joint workshop on national vision, ambitions, and scenarios for 2050, evaluating robustness of strategic ambitions across global scenarios.
• Observatório das Migrações (OM)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 March 2026Partnership with Observatório das Migrações (under AIMA) for workshops bridging science and public policy in migration. PLANAPP facilitates 'How to write a Policy Brief' workshops connecting researchers and policymakers.
• European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 March 2026JRC implements EIPM 2.0 project supporting evidence-informed policymaking for twin transition. PLANAPP coordinates Portuguese participation involving multiple public entities. Project runs until February 2028, aiming to institutionalize evidence use in policy formulation.
• ARTE - Agência para a Reforma Tecnológica do EstadomajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 March 2026Partner in EIPM 2.0 project alongside DGEPA, CLA, and CES. ARTE contributes to open data webinars and national data infrastructure initiatives within REPLAN network.
• Conselho dos Laboratórios Associados (CLA)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 March 2026Partner in EIPM 2.0 project. CLA represents associated laboratories contributing to evidence-informed policymaking ecosystem in Portugal.
• Conselho Económico e Social (CES)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 March 2026Partner in EIPM 2.0 project. CES contributes social and economic perspective to evidence-informed policymaking initiatives.
• OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025OECD implements technical assistance project 'Enhancing Centre of Government Capacities' with PLANAPP as Portuguese partner alongside Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Ireland, and Poland. Includes workshops, reports, and guidance on center of government coordination.
• CoLABORmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025CoLABOR developed Toolkit das desigualdades under commission from PLANAPP - a qualitative ex-ante evaluation methodology for assessing policy impact on inequalities, with experimental applications to government measures.
• Public Policy Portuguese Journal / Universidade de ÉvoramajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025PLANAPP coordinated Special Issue on 'Monitoring Planning Instruments: Systems Under Construction' as guest editors. Published analysis from multiple government agencies on planning instrument monitoring models.
• Agência para a Clima (ApC)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Host venue for REPLAN meetings and Portugal 2050 workshops. ApC collaborates on climate policy monitoring and sustainable development coordination within the network.
• Instituto Nacional de Administração (INA)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Co-organizer of 14th National Congress of Public Administration. Partnership on public administration reform, capacity building, and professional development initiatives.
• CHANGE - Laboratório AssociadomajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024CHANGE developed policy briefs on soil regeneration and water governance under 'Mesas Redondas' initiative funded by PLANAPP. Collaboration on sustainability and environmental policy analysis.
• Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Science4Policy competition developed in partnership between PLANAPP and FCT. Integrates Science para as Políticas Públicas portfolio, funding research teams to produce policy briefs addressing public policy problems identified by government.
• Ministry of Health / SNScoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Ongoing collaboration on health workforce planning under Despacho 7985/2023. PLANAPP conducts studies on SNS professionals, absenteeism, work organization, and strategic planning for healthcare human resources.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Bruegel: European think tank providing independent economic analysis and policy recommendations to European policymakers. Comparable in producing rigorous policy analysis and engaging in cross-EU policy debate, though operating as a think tank rather than a government entity.
• Ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research: German economic research institute providing independent empirical analysis informing public policy. While PLANAPP focuses on broader public policy planning rather than economic research, Ifo is comparable as an evidence-producing institution feeding into national and EU policy decisions.
• Centre for Public Impact: A global nonprofit that partners with governments to reimagine public services and build evidence-based policymaking capacity. It shares PLANAPP's focus on public value, policy evaluation, and government capability building, though operating across many jurisdictions rather than a single national center.
• Institut de France / France Stratégie: French government strategic foresight and evaluation body attached to the Prime Minister's office, producing medium- and long-term analysis for national planning. Highly comparable to PLANAPP as a national planning, evaluation, and foresight entity serving a European government.
• Policy Horizons Canada: Canadian federal foresight and policy research agency under the Privy Council Office that conducts horizon scanning, strategic foresight, and policy advice for the center of government. Highly comparable to PLANAPP as a dedicated center-of-government foresight and planning unit with published methodologies and stakeholder engagement.
• Australian Productivity Commission: Independent Australian federal agency conducting public policy reviews, inquiry-based evaluations, and regulatory analysis. Comparable to PLANAPP in conducting rigorous policy evaluation and producing public-facing analysis on government programs and reforms.
• CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis: Independent Dutch economic policy analysis bureau that produces forecasts, scenarios, and policy evaluations for the Dutch government. Comparable to PLANAPP in producing central-government economic and policy analysis, structural planning inputs (e.g., medium-term outlooks), and serving as a statutory economic analysis body.

Broad incumbents

• European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC): JRC leads the EIPM 2.0 project in which PLANAPP coordinates Portuguese participation. JRC produces the analytical and methodological infrastructure (evidence-informed policymaking toolkits, foresight, impact assessment) that national centers of government like PLANAPP adapt and deploy, making it a close counterpart in center-of-government evidence functions.
• UN DESA – United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs: UN DESA convenes HLPF (where PLANAPP presented RNDS 2030) and supports national SDG implementation and policy coherence. Comparable as the supra-national platform through which PLANAPP channels Portugal's SDG reporting and international policy coherence work.
• OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: PLANAPP is a named partner in the OECD's "Enhancing Centre of Government Capacities" technical assistance project. OECD is the overarching policy advisory body that shapes the frameworks (e.g., policy coherence, SDG monitoring) PLANAPP implements at the national level, making it the most direct peer for evidence-informed policy governance work.

Market position

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles6 records

Funding overview

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