Strategic Planning

Building Resilience for an Interdependent World

The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has recently consulted widely on a new White Paper setting priorities and ways of working for the government on eliminating world poverty.

IIED has contributed to these consultations with this paper which provides six recommendations for action:

A sustainable future for the polar regions

With climate change the environment in the polar regions is changing significantly – with increasing opportunities and pressures for development in these regions.

User Guide to tools for environmental integration

www.environmental-mainstreaming.org
IIED has launched an initiative toproduce a ‘User Guide’ to approaches (tools, methods and tactics) for mainstreaming (or integrating) environment into development decision-making (environmental mainstreaming).

Rural and land use planning

Promoting more sustainability-orientated approaches to rural and land use planning, integrated planning, and interaction between rural and urban planning processes.

Sustainability appraisal framework for southern Africa

Awareness and commitment to the idea of sustainable development is increasing around the world.

Piloting sustainability appraisal experimentation

As part pf its review of experience and practice in sustainability appraisal, SPA has engaged in consultations with potentially interested partners around the world.

Peer review / shared learning for French NSDS

The project set out to develop and test a methodology for ‘peer review’ of, and shared learning about, national strategies for sustainable development, using the French strategy as an experimental case.

Strategies for sustainable development

www.nssd.net
Strategic Planning and Assessment (SPA) is one of the leading centres in the world working in this field and continues to investigate approaches to NSDS, working with and advising governments, agencies and organisations, and promoting good practice at national, sub-national levels (e.g. district) and local levels (eg through local Agenda 21s).

Sustainability appraisal framework for southern Africa

Awareness and commitment to the idea of sustainable development is increasing around the world. Yet there remain real challenges concerning how it can be achieved and how progress might be measured.

Peer review of The Netherlands National Strategy for Sustainable Development

Various mechanisms are used to monitor progress and implementation of National Strategies for Sustainable Development (NSDS), eg internal reviews, external auditing, parliamentary and budgetary reviews, and indicator-based monitoring.

Technical Secretariat to OECD DAC Task Team on SEA

SPA is providing a Technical Secretariat to the OECD DAC Task Team on SEA

International review of SEA experience and practice

Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of policies, plans and programmes is a rapidly evolving field. New approaches and areas of application are emerging all the time - particularly in the fields of development cooperation and international trade.