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Mainstreaming MDGs into Local Level Policy Planning

Mainstreaming MDGs into Local Level Policy Planning. By Jaroslav Kling, UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre. Why MDGs in local development planning?. The ultimate goal of local development planning is improving the QUALITY OF LIFE through: Complex and sustainable development of territory

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Mainstreaming MDGs into Local Level Policy Planning

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  1. Mainstreaming MDGs into Local Level Policy Planning By Jaroslav Kling, UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre

  2. Why MDGs in local development planning? • The ultimate goal of local development planning is improving the QUALITY OF LIFE through: • Complex and sustainable development of territory • Addressing of current and anticipated future problems • Competitiveness • In the 1990s emphasis solely on economic development • MDGs emphasize human development

  3. What do we address by local development strategy*? Image Environment MDG7 Cohesion of community Local economy MDG1,8 Local government Millennium Declaration Quality of life Partnership and cooperation Financial management Infrastructure MDG 2-8 * Example of local development strategies in Slovakia

  4. Development strategy – the output • Situation analysis • SWOT • Vision • Strategy • Priority areas • Goals • Sequenced activities (projects) • What to achieve (monitoring indicators) • Who will do it • Who will cooperate • How much will it cost • What sources to use • Time frame/deadline • Implementation structure and mechanism • Monitoring and evaluation mechanism

  5. Strategy- entire chain Strategic plan “increasing the quality of public policies” Critical area: A.2 Housing policy Global goal: To create conditions for housing construction reflecting the needs and requests from the citizens Measure: A.2.1 City housing policy continuation Example from the Local Development Strategy for the City of Levoca, Slovakia

  6. Bottlenecks of the planning phase • POLITICAL SUPPORT • in the initial phase; • during entire planning process; • Existence of internal (local) team • Information preparatory work and inclusion of stakeholders; representativeness of committee to select priority areas • Selection of appropriate measures • Communication with external actors • Linking the measures to municipal budget • Selection of external consultants

  7. Key principles of preparation and implementation of local strategy • Cooperation between public and private sectors • Main objective of planning is its implementation • Long-term perspective (15-20y), short- and mid-term gradual implementation • Complex (but not “complete”) focus • Strictly selective solutions – defining of priorities • Focus on indigenous resources and their activation • Monitoring and evaluation are integral part of entire policy process

  8. Ways of the development programs implementation Local development plan is a tool for interventions of the public sector in the territory through: • Grant schemes – defining the priority areas and the outcomes to be achieved through them • By consensus selected projects that fulfill the expected objectives of the development plan • Combination of the two

  9. Funding of the implementation • Directly linked to the preparation of the local budget – annual programming of the implementation with the prospects for the coming years • Constant, new item of the local budget: “Preparation of projects and studies from the local development plan, budgetary reserve for the co-funding or start of approved projects (if funded from the EU, pre-funding by municipality is required)“ • Continuous review of the external funding sources, preparation and submission of applications for funding (sequencing of the proposals preparation including the estimate of the budgetary needs for the coming years in case the application is approved) including the credit resources

  10. Monitoring • Regular monitoring of progress in fulfillment of the strategy Strategic objective A.1.3: Internal image: city welcoming the tourists To carry out information campaign on tourism; to introduce a permanent public discussion on tourism, its benefits for and activities in Bardejov; to assure responses to feedbacks from citizens; to carry out permanent program on awareness raising and education for positive approach towards visitors of the city. Example from the Local Development Strategy for the City of Bardejov, Slovakia

  11. Evaluation • Evaluation of impact – set of indicators/proxy indicators regularly analyzed (once a year) – indicators of “good quality of life” Example from the Local Development Strategy for the City of Levoca, Slovakia

  12. Credits The lecture was prepared based on the several years of work in the area of local development planning within the Slovak NGO M.E.S.A. 10 (www.mesa10.sk) and based on Buček, 2007* * Buček, J., 2007. Current strategic economic development planning in cities and its application in Slovakia. Quaestiones Geographicae, 26B, pp. 15-25.

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