Development Planning – Why Plan for Development? Wednesday, October 28, 2015

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