Main features/components of collaborative planning

2.  The grand aim of collaborative planning is to involve
all the stakeholders in the processes of planning for
achieving consensual policy outcomes after a debate
under the conditions of communicative actions.
 Stakeholders are those individuals, groups and
organizations, which have an interest or concern and
influence in a given planning area or system

3.  It brings all key decision makers together in one place
for a concentrated effort to create a detailed, buildable,
feasible and “wanted” plan
 The right people in
the same place at
the same time

4.  Interactive process
o interaction among stakeholders is essential
o Interactive and interpretative process
o Production and
reproduction of
knowledge
o A way to
coordinate good
development

5.  Interaction a communicative action
o Interaction must follow conditions of communicative
rationality
o Communicative rationality means the stakeholders in
a particular discussion must be able to fulfill the ideal
speech conditions of
1. Comprehensibility
2. Truthfulness
3. Sincerity
4. legitimacy

7.  Mutual construction of interests-knowledge
forms
o All knowledge are valid
o No perspective is superior to others
o Knowing through experiments, local knowledge,
reading symbolic and non-verbal evidence,
contemplative and appreciative knowledge

8.  Respect for all members
o Stakeholders value others perspectives
“every stakeholder has a voice and ear”(Ledwith, 1997)
 Reflexive capacity
o Stakeholders can reflect on their own as well as others
beliefs and views
o Capacity to evaluate their own and others discourses

9.  A plan of discourses
 Helps implementing master plan
o By including community-enhancing features in each
proposed project
o By including the collaborative planning process in
o the Master Plan as the implementation component