Development Planning: Concepts and Tools for Planners, Managers and Facilitators - Softcover

Dale, Reidar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842774336 ISBN 13: 9781842774335

Publisher: Zed Books, 2004

Synopsis

This new textbook in development planning aims to provide a comprehensive and practically relevant guide to strategic planning at postgraduate and practitioner level. The book will help bridge the unfortunate gap that now exists between much development planning theory and planning practice. Promoting a more value-based, action-centered and organization-inclusive approach to development planning than is normally presented in textbooks on planning, the book introduces a simple model of strategic planning, and then elaborates more complex arrangements. The author then operationalizes various aspects and processes of planning, and critically analyzes tools involved, always in the context of more fundamental planning concerns. Specific topics include logical framework analysis, the use of indicators, process planning schemas, principles and tools of prioritization, and dimensions of participation and community institution building.

About this title

About the Author:

Reidar Dale is Associate Professor of Development Planning and Management at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok.

Review:

"A seminal contribution to an action-centred paradigm of planning for development."--Hellmutt W. Eggers, former Head of the Director General's Evaluation Division, EU

"A highly important and useful book...One particularly commendable feature is its use of lots of practical examples to explain different concepts and applications of planning."--W.M. Leelasena, Director, Southern Province Rural Economic Advancement Project, Sri Lanka

About this edition

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1842774336
• ISBN 13: 9781842774335
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240