This Guidance Note aims to provide direction to CARE Country Offices (COs) on how to analyse the governance elements of a given context when a) developing a Long Range Strategic Plan (LRSP) or other country level strategic/planning processes and b) designing a programme. The Note also points to the basic steps for incorporating governance into the programme design phase. It is one of the documents accompanying the Governance Programming Framework (GPF). The “GPF Resource Pack” also includes a Guidance Note on how to monitor and evaluate the governance component of a programme . This way the GPF Resource Pack aims to support CARE staff throughout the different stages of the programming cycle.