To be Course Description
This course introduces the students to new and better ways of planning and managing local development where the public sector is but one of the important actors in local development. It discusses the failures of the conventional planning approaches and introduces strategic planning and management. The course then introduces the student to the application of strategic planning and management in government agencies and non-profit making organisations. In the latter stage, the course introduces the student to concepts and practices of negotiation for consensus building as one of the models of strategic planning for local economic development. Finally, some case studies are discussed.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this course students will be able:
• To understand the role of strategic planning as a useful alternative approach to comprehensive normative planning, in the present environment for public decision-making, where the state has limited resources and limited powers;
• To understand the logic of strategic planning, the assumptions on which it is based and its limitations;
• To understand the basic principles of negotiation and the logic of negotiation processes;
• To identify the main steps of the strategic planning process, describe its basic components, steps and activities, and explain the importance of negotiation in the whole process;
• To organise and participate actively in strategic planning exercises; and
• To use negotiation in the context of strategic planning as a means to achieve political and operational consensuses among different development actors.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course unit students should:
• Appreciate the role of strategic planning as a useful alternative approach to comprehensive normative planning, in the present environment for public decision-making, where the state has limited resources and limited powers;
• Understand the logic of strategic planning, the assumptions on which it is based and its limitations;
• Appreciate the basic principles of negotiation and the logic of negotiation processes;
• Explain the main steps of the strategic planning process, describe its basic components, steps and activities, and explain the importance of negotiation in the whole process;
• Participate actively in strategic planning exercises; and
• Use negotiation in the context of strategic planning as a means to achieve political and operational consensuses among different development actors.
updated by the Lecturer
This course introduces the students to new and better ways of planning and managing local development where the public sector is but one of the important actors in local development. It discusses the failures of the conventional planning approaches and introduces strategic planning and management. The course then introduces the student to the application of strategic planning and management in government agencies and non-profit making organisations. In the latter stage, the course introduces the student to concepts and practices of negotiation for consensus building as one of the models of strategic planning for local economic development. Finally, some case studies are discussed.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this course students will be able:
• To understand the role of strategic planning as a useful alternative approach to comprehensive normative planning, in the present environment for public decision-making, where the state has limited resources and limited powers;
• To understand the logic of strategic planning, the assumptions on which it is based and its limitations;
• To understand the basic principles of negotiation and the logic of negotiation processes;
• To identify the main steps of the strategic planning process, describe its basic components, steps and activities, and explain the importance of negotiation in the whole process;
• To organise and participate actively in strategic planning exercises; and
• To use negotiation in the context of strategic planning as a means to achieve political and operational consensuses among different development actors.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course unit students should:
• Appreciate the role of strategic planning as a useful alternative approach to comprehensive normative planning, in the present environment for public decision-making, where the state has limited resources and limited powers;
• Understand the logic of strategic planning, the assumptions on which it is based and its limitations;
• Appreciate the basic principles of negotiation and the logic of negotiation processes;
• Explain the main steps of the strategic planning process, describe its basic components, steps and activities, and explain the importance of negotiation in the whole process;
• Participate actively in strategic planning exercises; and
• Use negotiation in the context of strategic planning as a means to achieve political and operational consensuses among different development actors.
updated by the Lecturer
- Teacher: Samuel Nyende
- Student: NAVVUBYA CATHERINE
- Student: NAKAYIWA GORRET
- Student: mutyabule gyaviira
- Student: Kayongo Ian
- Student: KATEREGA JOSEPH
- Student: TUSABE MARY
- Student: Maria Cottiney Namutebi
- Student: Mirembe Patricia
- Student: nakigozi rebecca
- Student: nalwoga susan
- Enrolled students: 10