- Division of Planning and Development, Office of the Chief Secretary
- The Division of Planning and Development will serve as the coordinating agency to guide the integration of the cross-cutting policy considerations in the Strategic Development Planning Pathway in the following ways:
- Within and across the three (3) Development Planning Regions in Tobago.
- Within and across the divisions of the Tobago House of Assembly.
- Between a division of the Tobago House of Assembly and a ministry of the government of Trinidad and Tobago.
- The work of the Division of Planning and Development will focus more directly on:
- Re-establishing the Tobago Policy, Research and Development Institute, PRDI, under a new name, the Tobago Policy, Research, Development and Training Institute, PRDTI.
- The Institute would provide research, technical support and training to departments responsible for policy, plans, program and project development and implementation in all divisions of the THA.
- Establishing the Tobago House of Assembly Policy, Development Program and Project Registry.
- Establishing an online portal for the module-based training of public officers in the THA on the principles and practices related to development planning.
- Collaborating with the proposed Division of Governmental Affairs on development issues that require concurrence between the Tobago House of Assembly and the government of Trinidad and Tobago.
- Developing the institutional arrangements for establishing Departments of Public Policy, Plans, Program and Project in each division of the Tobago House of Assembly.
- Managing the Development Agenda Priority, DAP implementation schedule for the strategic development planning pathway.
- Developing planning toolkits for all divisions of the Tobago House of Assembly, including but not limited to tools for public engagement, policy and program development and implementation, program reporting and evaluation and project development and implementation.
- Developing a Tobago Regional Spatial Development Atlas, TRSDA, as a Geographic Information Systems spatial and attributed data platform.
- Hosting the atlas digitally on a GIS-based platform will support the seamless linking of spatial, socio-economic and environmental attribute data.
- The platform’s open-source features will allow widespread access to planning data, not only to the government of Tobago, but also to all rights holders and stakeholders, including Tobagonians in the diaspora.
- Establishing the Tobago Strategic Development Planning Pathway Working Group, TSDPPWG
- Re-establishing the Tobago Policy, Research and Development Institute, PRDI, under a new name, the Tobago Policy, Research, Development and Training Institute, PRDTI.
- The Division of Planning and Development will serve as the coordinating agency to guide the integration of the cross-cutting policy considerations in the Strategic Development Planning Pathway in the following ways:
