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Participatory Urban Planning (PUP) in Orikum, is designed with the objective to improve local governance and accountability in Orikum municipality by (i) building the capacity of local government officials and civic groups to engage in consultations that are focused and goal-oriented towards solving community problems; and, (ii) on a pilot basis, introducing short and long term mechanisms to institutionalize citizen voice in government decision making. The long-term objective is to create opportunities for social inclusion in public decision-making.
The PUP has been tailored according to the budgeting cycle of Orikum municipality. The participatory urban decision-making process may be seen as comprising four basic phases:
1. Preparatory and Stakeholder Mobilization
2. Issue Prioritizations and Stakeholder Commitment
3. Strategy Formulation and Implementation
4. Follow-up and Consolidation
PHASE I: PREPARATORY AND STAKEHOLDER MOBILIZATION
The Preparatory and Stakeholder Mobilization Phase initiates the participatory decision-making process and comprises the following major stages:
•Mobilizing stakeholders;
•Issue and city profiling; and
•Identifying key issues.
PHASE II: ISSUE PRIORITIZATION AND STAKEHOLDER COMMITMENT
Next in the participatory decision-making process is the Issue Prioritization and Stakeholder Commitment phase. This phase has three main stages, all focused around the City Consultation:
• elaborating issues;
• building collaboration and forging consensus; and
• formalizing commitment on ways forward.
PHASE III: STRATEGY FORMULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION
Strategy Formulation and Implementation will be the most substantive and perhaps the longest phase of the participatory urban development decision-making process, covering four principal stages:
• formulating priority strategies;
• negotiating and agreeing action plans;
• designing and implementing demonstration projects; and
• Integrating projects and plans into strategic approaches.
PHASE IV-FOLLOW-UP AND CONSOLIDATION
Follow-Up and Consolidation will be the fourth and final phase of the process, during which the action plans developed in the previous phase will be implemented and during which the whole process will be set onto a long-term basis. This open-ended phase will have four stages or aspects:
• implementing action plans;
• monitoring and evaluation;
• up-scaling and replication; and
• institutionalisation.
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