Development Planning – Why Plan for Development?

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Development Planning

• Why plan for Development?– The aims of this module are to introduce the

participant to the planning process and to identify different types of plan

• Following principles outlined in Context for Communities

• This section has one PowerPoint presentation:– LEAP

Section Objectives• There are 7 activities in this section:

– Planning: What? Why? How?– How Would You Plan?– Initiating a Community Technology Plan– Setting up a Steering Committee– Gathering Information– Establishing Community Interest– Identifying Local Resources

• Knowledge gained from completing the first activity will inform your decisions in the following activities

Planning: What? Why? How?

• This activity aims to give an understanding of the LEAP planning process– Define the word “plan”– List types of plan– Why must you plan?

Planning: What? Why? How?

• Compare responses with:– Planning ensures that people within an organisation have

thought through about what needs to be done to help the organisation operate and grow.

– When done well, everyone within the organisation knows where they are heading and stops things being done in a haphazard way.

– Planning does not exist in a vacuum. It is no use having plans if they are not following and are not regularly reviewed and revised to take account of new circumstances.

How Would You Plan?

• Break down the planning process into the following categories:– Inputs

• The resources used to build or complete a programme, policy or project. Includes staff, time, budgets, equipment etc

– Process• What you do to the resources

– Outputs• The specific products of the process activities

– Outcomes• The effects of the outputs

Initiating a Community Technology Plan

• Make sure that all participants are aware of the LEAP process

• Have the LEAP PowerPoint showing whilst completing this activity

• Read and discuss the two scenarios• There are no correct answers here

Other Members…

Setting up a Steering Committee

Educational Representative

Accountant, Solicitor, Marketing Professionals

Prime Mover Organizer, Community and Business Representatives

Gathering Information

• Discuss sources of information– Local authority– Housing authorities– Neighbourhood programmes

Establishing Community Interest

• Discuss sources and levels of community interest:– Community residents on the steering committee– Meetings– Participation of key community leaders– Shared interests with groups of community

residents– Surveys

Identifying Local Resources

• Local resources include:– Schools– Colleges– Libraries– Local businesses– Local government agencies– Community-based organisations

Workshop

• We will aim to complete:– Planning: What? Why? How?– How Would You Plan?– Initiating a Community Technology Plan– Setting up a Steering Committee

• Pages 2 to 7 of the Development Planning booklet

• Pages 41 to 44 of the Tutors Notes