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Community-Based Planning and the IDP - Guide 2: Facilitator’s guide for Community-based planning
2005
African Institute for Community-Driven Development (AICDD) and Development Works
The Municipal Systems Act, 2000, introduced the process of municipal planning for district and local municipalities and the Integrated Development Planning Process, through which Integrated Development Plans (IDPs) are developed. South Africa is committed to poverty eradication, and bottom-up, participatory or community-based planning (CBP) is a way of identifying locally appropriate poverty reduction interventions, and to contribute to the IDP.
The planning system is critical in how resources are allocated, especially the budgets of local governments. Unless poor people can influence these budgets, the ability to promote sustainable livelihoods for poor people will be limited, as will be the impact of local democracy. Attempts at participatory planning have often focused on ad-hoc short workshops with wards where problems are listed, but this does not analyse the richness of local contexts, identify local strengths, nor provide a platform for local action. This guide together with the CBP/IDP Management Guide provides a thorough method for undertaking such planning as part of an integrated development plan.
There are commonly four different types of reasons why community-based planning is advocated:
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To improve the quality of plans;
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To improve the quality of services;
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To improve the community’s control over development;
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To increase community action and reduce dependency.
The CBP approach assumes that the objective is all four of these, so that community planning must be empowering for communities, but must also lead to improved local authority and other agency plans and services. This methodology assumes serious political commitment to community empowerment.
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