Urban & Regional Development Planning is a systematic and creative approach utilized to address and resolve social, physical and economic issues of cities, countries and larger geographical sub regions. Businesses use corporate planning to make profits or to revitalize their organizations when profits decline. Likewise, governments use planning to help make communities function as livable environments and to correct problems of growth, and change.

This unit helps decision-makers to engage effectively in rational definition and effective coordination of sectorial development programs and projects in order to reach specific goals.

Provision of technical assistance in the elaboration and the revision of master plans and sectorial development plans

Master plans are strategic development and operative plans, which defines long-term spatial development projections of cities and regions and determines prevailing land use inside particular sites, and capacities for transportation, power supply, water management, and other infrastructure. Its rationale is to describe government’s recommendations for the desirable development of a town or a region. Additional recommended components are housing, transportation, utilities, community facilities, economic development, natural hazards, recreation, conservation and preservation, regional concerns, and implementation.

Provision of technical assistance in the feasibility and impact study (social, economic and environmental)

Feasibility study is a preliminary study undertaken to determine and document a development project's viability. The term feasibility study is also used to refer to the resulting document. The results of this study are used to make a decision whether to proceed with the project, or terminate it. If it leads to a project being approved, it will be used to confirm the likelihood of the project being success. It is an analysis of possible alternative solutions to a problem and a recommendation on the best alternative.

Provision of technical assistance in the administrative decentralization process

Decentralization is a process whereby government institutions transfer decision-making powers and resources closer both to the target populations of public policy and to all stakeholders in civil society, in the context of the redefinition of the role of the State. Evidently, decentralization is a general process covering all spheres of government action, and its particular conditions for success need to be specified for each branch of the economy.

Provision of technical assistance in the elaboration of national plans for disaster management

Disaster preparedness involves taking precautionary measures prior to an imminent threat. Disaster preparedness planning improves the response to the effects of a disaster by organizing timely service delivery to minimize potential loss of life and physical damage. It also involves the education and training of officials and the population at risk, the training of intervention teams, and the establishment of policies and procedures, organizational arrangements and operational plans to be applied following a disaster. Effective plans also consider securing resources. for the implementation.

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