- What are the potential development planning implications of the SDPP?
- Ultimately, a strategic development planning pathway would:
- Provide “forward guidance” to the Tobago House of Assembly for establishing its capital development program, focusing on growth in key economies involving tourism, agriculture, infrastructure development, and education.
- Provide the basis for the efficient management of the development budgeting and spending in the THA.
- Identify and prioritize the most productive and sustainable development options in key economies.
- Unify the language, understanding, and practice of development planning as a set of clearly defined pillars, strategic policy focus areas, principles, stages, and decision steps.
- Help promote a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach to development planning by mainstreaming the planning process using a common framework and public platform that fosters a more transparent and accessible development planning process for planning practitioners, rights holders, and stakeholders.
- Entrench spatial and attribute data visualization and scenario analysis within the development planning process, based on macroplanning performance measures, using easy-to-use online tools, such as what-if analysis.
- Provide the basis for identifying best practices in development planning.
- Ultimately, a strategic development planning pathway would:
