LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR TBILISI ... - LED

7. Strategy implementation
An important rule when implementing the Plan is to follow closely the adopted procedures
and make sure that everyone does their job. The principle idea of this proposal is
permanent analysing and drawing conclusions from completed tasks because they form
the foundation for future projects.
The list of the participants in the Plan development process consisted of the
representatives of:
• the City residents,
• key business groups,
• public institutions in charge of local development,
• self-government officials, local politicians,
• non-governmental organisations – especially the social and economic ones.
Also, specialists, outside consultants took part in the works.
Local administration has to nominate the Plan coordinator. The Mayor of the City himself
and through delegated specialists is responsible for the formal organisation and the Plan
preparation. He is also in charge of logistics and the subject-matter side of the process.
In the process the works of preparatory and conceptual character were separated from
the decision-making at different stages of the Plan development.
The team organisation and the allocation of tasks were based on the rule that the selected
groups of specialists performed all the works that required professional skills according to
the best practice principle. The teams selected in such a way could quickly come to
common conclusions. It should be emphasised how vast the range of problems
addressed in the Plan was. The ability to synthesize problems is very useful in this
process. Decision makers and stakeholders are not involved in document preparatory
works - stakeholders consult The Mayor and City Council before they will take final
decisions.
By the City Mayor directive the following teams should be appointed to develop the Plan:
• The City Development Council – stakeholder group,
• Inter-sector Team of City Development Programme,
• Working Team.
Phase One – team organisation and procedure adopting:
• appointing the Plan Working Team,
• appointing the Inter-sector Plan Team,
• appointing the City Development Council,
• creating the consulting group,
• adopting the Plan development procedure,
• selecting techniques and instruments to carry out the works,
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