Planning clinics: A primer

Abstract

This chapter is an attempt to synthesise discussion from previous chapters of this volume in the form of an iterative guide to undertaking broad-based and participatory planning. Planning, by being able to accommodate the spending instincts of line departments, the cost-recovery impulses of finance mandarins and consumer/politicians inclination to exit from commitments to pay for services holds the key to enhanced service delivery. Planning clinics can put the spotlight on a larger set of institutional factors that constrain delivery of basic services like funds, functions and functionaries or transfers, taxes and tariffs. This chapter discusses an example of a WSP supported urban sanitation intervention in Indonesia to highlight the usefulness of a gradual and staggered approach to bottom up planning through which consensus for critical aspects of a reform agenda is crafted. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.