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The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide Instructions on back WORKSHEET 5 THE INTERDEPARTMENTAL COORDINATION FOR ACTION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION This Worksheet can be used to help municipal officials and stakeholders identify which responsibilities each municipal department must take to implement each Action Plan Goal. It can also be used to identify which municipal department will take the “lead,” or coordinating role, for each Goal. To use the Worksheet, write the Action Plan Goals on the left, vertical axis of the Worksheet under the heading “Action Plan Goals.” Write the names of the different municipal departments on the top, horizontal axis of the Worksheet. In each box of the matrix, write the responsibility that each department will need to take to achieve each Goal. On the basis of this division of responsibilities, indicate in the lower right hand corner of each box which department will take on the coordinating role for achieving each Goal. In addition to their implementation responsibilities, these lead departments would also be given primary responsibility for documenting and reporting on the activities undertaken to achieve each Goal, and for monitoring indicators and evaluating trends related to each Goal. In recognition of this common shortcoming in municipal government, inter-departmental committees have become a standard element of municipal sustainable development planning. In Lancashire County, UK, (Case #1) an inter-departmental committee was established to review proposals submitted by the Environmental Forum (via the Environment Unit) before their submission to Council committees. The Region of Hamilton-Wentworth, Canada, (Case #17) has maintained a Staff Working Group on Sustainable Development, which meets regularly to monitor departmental efforts to integrate the Region’s Vision 2020 goals and objectives into departmental programs. http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/448-2/ (110 of 180)18/10/2010 12:47:23 AM
The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide 5.1.4 QUASI-GOVERNMENTAL AND COMMUNITY AGENCIES In most communities, many of the actions required to address a systemic problem are outside the purview or the control of the local government. Housing, air pollution, health, or other problems may result as much from private practices, market imperfections, product designs, or the actions of private corporations as from problems with municipal infrastructure or policy. The case of Stockholm, Sweden, (Case #14) demonstrates how a progressive municipality can use its regulatory powers and its controls over infrastructure to support and induce households and private companies to change their practices and redesign their products. However, in other countries, where municipal capacities and powers are not as strong, local governments can create external structures, generally known as “intermediary institutions,” to facilitate and coordinate the necessary involvement of households and private corporations in the implementation of an Action Plan. Numerous examples of such institutions exist. A classic example is the Curitiba Research and Urban Planning Institute (IPPUC) of Curitiba, Brazil. IPPUC was established by the city of Curitiba in 1965 as a quasi-independent planning agency to oversee the longterm implementation of the city’s Master Plan. Since that time, IPPUC has served as a stable agent guiding Curitiba’s rapid development according to an urban structure plan that maximizes the cost-effective delivery of public transportation services and the preservation of the city’s central business district. The establishment of an independent implementation agency was required to implement this long-term strategy, due to the fact that Brazil’s local government system places a mandatory one-term limit on mayoral administrations. Case #15 describes how the City of Graz, Austria, has used the mechanism of a stakeholder-based partnership between the city, the local universities, and local businesses to encourage businesses to review and redesign their industrial processes to make them more environmentally friendly. Examples of other municipally supported intermediary institutions abound. In the United Kingdom, municipalities are actively establishing WORKSHEET 6 COORDINATION OF ACTION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION WITH STATUTORY PLANNING PROCESS http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/448-2/ (111 of 180)18/10/2010 12:47:23 AM
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