vocational training, on-the-job training etc. that will then be implemented
concurrently with the land use planning process.
The following questions need to be addressed in the institutional analysis:
z ÄWhich institution will take the lead?
z ÄWhich other institutions need to get involved?
z ÄWhat are their capacities?
z ÄWhat is their staff’s experience and qualifications in the different fields
required – from facilitation at local level up to mapping with GIS?
z ÄWhat kind of preparation would these people need to fulfil their new
tasks and where can they get appropriate training?
z ÄWhere can they get additional information, appropriate services and
technical support?
z ÄWhat materials and basic equipment are needed?
Determining the planning area: an adequate unit in which land use planning is carried out can be a watershed area, a community territory, an
administrative unit or some other geographical unit. The decision must
be made together with the population, local institutions and government
if necessary. Various criteria will play a role: solidarity and dissociation
of the local population, their action space, the administrative territorial
boundaries and the focus of the government’s strategy. Sometimes the
boundaries of a planning area will change during the course of implementation. Once the planning area is agreed upon, the next step often covers
the identification of pilot zones or “pilot villages”. Nevertheless, land use
planning must recognize all problems, potentials and alternatives for land
use in the entire planning unit. It cannot be concerned selectively with
partial areas, which are particularly intact or degraded. The whole area
used by the stakeholders has to be planned for. However, implementation
activities will not have to cover the areas to the same extent, at least for
the beginning.