The newly formed government of Andhra Pradesh is willing to promote community participation in the planning process at the grassroots level to achieve its ‘Vision 2029’. To fulfil this ‘Vision’ the state government has also launched 7 technical missions with clear-cut objectives. The state government is also collecting large data on development issues through a Janmabhoomi campaign . The state intends to use this data for planning different interventions to achieve its ‘Vision 2029’.
Preparation of decentralized district development plans by amalgamating/consolidating the participatory plans prepared by panchayats and municipalities could be one of the best methods to achieve this ‘Vision’. Participatory district planning is multidimensional, and therefore calls for following a clearly organised sequence of steps to arrive at a meaningful plan. The participatory district planning design process, led by local governments, needs to take numerous factors into account, foremost being the duality that exists between the constitutional and legal aspects of the framework that governs rural and urban local governments.
PRIA on the basis of its experiences will provide technical supports to multi-sectorial and multi-level teams of the Government of Andhra Pradesh for initiation and consolidation of bottom-up planning from gram sabhas to 3 tiers of Ppanchayats and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) in all districts of the state and to prepare participatory district development plans for each district, for the year 2016-17.
PRIA will also use its appropriate technical capacities to support and analyse the data generated by the state government during the Janmabhoomi campaign and will identify current development gaps, future capacity building needs and possible development strategies required from the state government’s side.
Objectives
• To support the state government in rolling out decentralisation planning programme
• To support panchayats and municipalities to develop their plan, using suggested formats
• To support District Planning Committees in standardising procedures and consolidating the plans from different planning units
Geographical Spread
All panchayats in 13 districts of Andhra Pradesh
Key outputs / Deliverables
• Analysis of online available/ generated data for 2014-15 to provide inputs for development planning for 2015-16
• Training of Master Trainers to create a pool of resource persons (3-4) in each district of the state
• Capacity building of district/ mandal/gram panchayat/ULB level office bearers on decentralised planning
• Capacity building of District Planning Committee members on ‘envisioning’ and resource envelop
• Participatory Comprehensive District Plan (2015-16) by District Planning Committees
• Planning formats and standard procedures to bring change in decentralised district planning process
Quantitative Results
• Annual Developments Plans prepared by almost all Panchayats in all 13 districts
• Around 10,000 government officials (state, district, mandal and village/towns) trained on decentralised planning
• 50- 60 government and non-government officials trained as Master Trainers to create a pool of resource persons
Qualitative Results
• Capacity building of District Planning Committee members on ‘envisioning’ and resource envelop,
• Handholding support in planning at the gram panchayat/ULB and mandal levels,
• Handholding support in consolidation of gram panchayat plans at mandal/district levels, thereby integrating local planning with state planning
• Technical support in consolidation of plans (2015-16) by District Planning Committees
• Support in reviewing and finalisation of Comprehensive District Plan (2015-16) by District Planning Committees
Year/Period
December 2014 - November 2015
Client
Department of Panchayati Raj and Rural Development, Government of Andhra Pradesh
