National Decade Plans: Eight Questions They Answer [antikvár]

INTRODUCTIONThe International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade has stimulated the development of national plans in many countries. These activities have led to the preparation of much valuable information that is required for making decisions, in order to:ensure that all important aspects of the subject have been identified and related to one another;define a framework, and the objectives, for actions by governments, communities, and organizations;make good use of scarce resources;view development projects in their proper context;clarify the basis for decisions on financing, investment, coverage, and infrastructure development;discuss and justify programmes with national decision-makers and external cooperation agencies.The planning experiences of a number of developing countries have provided a basis for outlining the desirable contents of a national "Decade" plan. ' The outline that follows is presented in the form of eight questions that a plan should answer rather than as a list of specific information to be compiled in order to:focus attention on substance, rather than form;permit national planners and decision-makers to adapt it by emphasis and by elimination to their own national situations;enhance the feasibility of discussion among the many people involved in the planning/decision process, by minimizing the use of technical jargon.Technical guidance for detailed planning work is available in a broad array of specialized documents, a selection of which is listed by source on pages 17-18.