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The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide
stakeholders can be attached. The framework document is a consensus document, developed by stakeholders, which is used to guide
its signatories in developing their own implementation plans. This Action Plan document would therefore contain:
• a community vision, developed by the stakeholders, including a position on current problems and opportunities;
• strategic goals for each problem or opportunity area related to this vision;
• specific targets to be achieved in meeting each goal;
• identified implementation strateqies and programs for achieving these targets and goals;
• a description or key partnerships to be established for implementation, including linkages with existing planning
processes; and
• a framework for periodic evaluation of progress, including “triggers” for future planning and action.
Once this document is prepared and agreed upon by stakeholders, citizens, local institutions, organizations, and agencies can be
invited to submit implementing agreements, to be recognized and included as an annex to the strategic Action Plan document. The
municipality would be the first institution expected to outline its specific implementation plans and programs.
Implementing agreements will include:
• specific program commitments of government departments, service agencies, private corporations, nongovernmental
organizations, etc.;
• agreements among different stakeholders to undertake joint work; and
• commitments by individuals, households, neighborhoods, schools, private businesses, and so forth, to improve
their performance in relation to the community’s sustainability goals.
These different implementing agreements are incorporated into the strategic Action Plan as an annex, and estimates are made of how
each agreement will impact upon the achievement of the Plan’s overall goals and targets. In this way, the strategic Action Plan is
used as a dynamic document to encourage and focus the efforts of individual residents and institutions to achieve the strategic goals
of the community.
4.2 Steps
Within the context of the above framework, the action planning process would include the following steps:
STEP 1.
Define the action planning process.
STEP 2.
Review the Community Vision and the findings from community-based issue analysis.
STEP 3.
Establish strategic action goals.
STEP 4.
Set targets and triggers.
STEP 5.
Select specific implementation strategies and programs.
STEP 6.
Develop the framework Action Plan.
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