Übung Implementation Workshop

The entire planning workshop is designed to cover the three major phases of the ideal planning cycle: Analysis, Planning and Implementation. It is a simulation group exercise where students will be confronted with specific development planning issues in order to prepare an integrated development plan for a simulated region. The essential information of this region is compiled in the ‘SPRING Regional Profile’, which provides a broad perspective of the study area and helps to create an understanding of the issues which have an impact on the development of the area. The planning workshop serves as a platform for the participants to apply various goal-oriented planning techniques and tools which have been introduced to them in the course -Programme Planning and Project Management”. Implementation One of the widely recognised weaknesses of contemporary development planning in growing economies is the failure to implement the policies and required actions contained in plans, programmes and projects. This is partly due to the prevailing tendency to think that the planner’s role ends when a plan has been produced while implementation is seen as a set of activities of a very different nature. Such activities would not happen by themselves unless plans are operationalised. In this context, implementation could be termed as the process of converting resources such as materials, technologies, funds and institutions into goods and services which support behaviour change in beneficiary groups. The role of the planner in the process of plan implementation is thus concerned with mobilising, organising, co-coordinating and managing the resources needed to undertake the actions embodied in the plans. From policy makers’ point of view, implementation is the whole process of translating broad policy goals or objectives into visible results in the form of specific projects or programmes of action. Raumplanung Technische Universität Dortmund SoSe 2013 Master SPRING Dr. Weber Anne sc.agr