Forestry Department
Policy and Planning Division
Planning and Statistics Branch
May 1998
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CHAPTER 1: FORESTRY PLANNING REVISITED
1.1 Planning as a Process of Continuous Improvement
1.2 At the End of a Process that Never ends: What are the Results of Planning?
1.3 Planning Cycle Stages: How it should work
CHAPTER 2: TYPOLOGY OF PLANNING METHODS AND TOOLS
2.1 Methods to Clarify Issues and Problems
2.2 Methods to Examine Spatial and Inter-Sectoral Relationships
2.3 Methods for Social, Environmental, and Economic Analysis
2.4 Methods to Discuss the Future
CHAPTER 3: INTEGRATING PARTICIPATION INTO THE PLANNING PROCESS
3.1 When Participation Works, What Does It Accomplish?
3.2 Design a Framework for Participation: Overview
3.3 Develop the Participation Plan
3.4 Work With Regions and Districts
3.5 Work With Other Agencies
3.6 Work With Interest Groups
3.7 Work With Advisory Committees
3.8 Prepare a Participation Summary
3.9 Hold the Door Open for Continued Participation
CHAPTER 4: INTEGRATING CONFLICT MANAGEMENT INTO THE PLANNING PROCESS
4.1 Understand Your Opportunities to Negotiate
4.2 Identify the Agency's Negotiating Goals
4.3 Choose the Agency's Negotiating Strategy
4.4 Create a Positive Climate for Negotiation
4.5 Improve the Agency's Negotiating Strength
4.6 Turn to Outside Negotiators
CHAPTER 5: ORIENTATIONS FOR EFFECTIVE PLANNING
5.1 Link Planning With Decisionmaking
5.2 Develop Skills for Strategic Planning
5.3 Allow Adequate Time and Budget
5.4 Establish Action Teams for Implementation
5.5 Keep Records
5.6 Provide for Management Review
APPENDIX II: SELECTED REFERENCES
A. The Nature and Scope of Development Planning
B. Planning with Emphasis on Forests, Land Use, and Rural Development
C. Planning in Relation to Management Science
D. Participatory Methods in Planning
E. Top-Down and Bottom-Up Coordination
F. Conflict Management
G. Methods to Assess Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts
H. Forecasting Techniques and Futures Analysis
Worksheet 1. Evolution in Planning: Toward New Ways of Thinking
Worksheet 2. The Contents of a Strategic Plan for Forest Use and Conservation
Worksheet 3. Questions to Define and Clarify the agency's Mission
Worksheet 4. Improvement Goals to Support Mission Elements
Worksheet 5. Cross-Cutting Improvement Goals: The Institutional Factors
Worksheet 6. Assigning Priorities to Improvement Goals
Worksheet 7. Guidelines for Writing Objectives
Worksheet 8. Actions in Support of Objectives.
Worksheet 9. Major Issues to be Negotiated.
Worksheet 10. What Problems Can an Agency Predict in Implementation?
Worksheet 11. How Will an Agency Monitor, Evaluate, and Adjust its Planning?
Worksheet 12. Guidelines for Effective Brainstorming.
Worksheet 13. Guidelines to Clarify the Statement of a Problem.
Worksheet 14. Strengths and Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.
Worksheet 15. Constructing Problem Trees.
Worksheet 16. The Logical Framework.
Worksheet 17. Force-Field Analysis.
Worksheet 18. Constructing a Comparison Matrix.
Worksheet 19. Role Playing.
Worksheet 20. Checklist of Information Needed in Maps.
Worksheet 21. Designing a Social Assessment.
Worksheet 22. Issues in an Environmental Assessment.
Worksheet 23. Frameworks of Benefit-Cost Analysis.
Worksheet 24. Exercises for Forecasting and Futures Analysis.
Worksheet 25. Participation in the Different Stages of Planning.
Worksheet 26. Proposing a Set of Participation Activities.
Worksheet 27. Schedule of the Participation Activities.
Worksheet 28. What Goes Into a Participation Plan?
Worksheet 29. Issues in Multi-Level Planning.
Worksheet 30. Issues in Working With Other Agencies.
Worksheet 31. Attitudes and Behaviors of People Who Are Good Negotiators
Worksheet 32. Goals, Compromises, and Alternatives in a Negotiation Framework
Worksheet 33. The Physical and Emotional Climate for Negotiation
Worksheet 34. Successful Behavior in Conflict Conciliation and Mediation.
Worksheet 35. Rewards and Threats for the Agency's Top Executives.
Worksheet 36. Evaluation of Team Skills for Strategic Planning.
Worksheet 37. Action Teams for Plan Implementation.
Worksheet 38. Questions to Guide a Management Review.