| dc.creator | Shah, M. M. | |
| dc.creator | Schaap, A. D. | |
| dc.creator | De Man, F. | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-14T11:42:39Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-14T11:42:39Z | |
| dc.date | 1978 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-10T12:58:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-10T12:58:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Shah, M. M., Schaap, A. D. and De Man F. (1978) Information systems for development planning. Discussion Paper 261, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/692 | |
| dc.identifier | 317310 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/1957 | |
| dc.description | In this paper the changing approaches to development planning are
described, from the economic-growth oriented strategies of the 1950s and the
1960s to the contemporary emphasis on alleviating poverty and meeting basic
needs. The process of development planning includes several phases; the
identification of aims, analysis, plan formulation and detailed design,
Implementation, controls, updating, and feedback and adjustment. This process
has become much more sophisticated in recent years, but in general, the
comprehensiveness and refinement of a development plan depends on the type
and scope of the data available. At the same time, the very process of
planning may reveal deficiencies In data and thus act as an incentive to
improved information gathering.
Three information systems are needed for development planning:
a resources information system, whose importance has been recognised for some
time but which has frequently consisted of a series of isolated and uncoordinated
inventories and studies; a scientific and technological information system'
and a management information system, whose Importance has frequently been
neglected.
Information in these areas must be collected, communicated to
government policy makers and administrators to meet their immediate needs, and
stored in a convenient and coordinated form so that it will be accessible in
the future. More global surveys and inventories will be needed during the
eiarly stages of development planning, and detailed project and programme
surveys will be needed during the design and implementation stages. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Discussion Papers;261 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Science and Society | |
| dc.subject | Economic Development | |
| dc.title | Information systems for development planning | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
