Indicators of Community participation in master plan

Abstract

The community participation process is a key party in the plan development and success process, so the local community should have a say in building the master plans for their cities and they have the authority to make decisions. In this research, we will get acquainted with the city of Diwaniyah, the study area, and to determine its boundaries and the master plan for it., and analyzed its results using statistical methods that relate to planning indicators extracted from the conceptual framework and previous studies. A specialist distributed to the Urban Planning Directorate (11), the Diwaniyah Municipality Directorate (23) and the Governorate Bureau (17). The results of the research and through the statistical analysis of the answers in the questionnaire using the statistical program (SPSS) statistical package for social since and statistical comparisons that showed the existence of high importance and reliability of the axis of community participation in the planning process, The research also concluded that community participation is an influencing process in the master plan of the city, and the study recommended a set of recommendations, including: giving powers to the decision-makers responsible for the master plan, in order to enable them to participate effectively in the master plan, with the need to provide these local institutions with planning cadres with specialists in urban planning and community participation.