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Glossary of terms for Development Management
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Note: Within each definition, terms for which there are definitions elsewhere are highlighted.
Action planning
see Plan
of operations
Activities
In LogFrame planning, a term
used to describe what the staff of a project does (in terms of deliberate
efforts/measures) in order to achieve the project outputs. The
activities form part of the hierarchically arranged objectives in a
project planning matrix (PPM). In a Plan of Operations sub-activities
appear as smaller, more detailed tasks/ actions to be carried out as part
of those activities listed in the project planning matrix (PPM).
Actor constellation
see Participants
Agglomeration
A mass or cluster
of urban settlements growing (or having grown) together, associated with
high population density, high degree of industrialisation (and respective
pollution), high prices, especially for real estate.
Agropolitan development
The concept of agropolitan
development was originally developed and applied in densely populated
rural areas in Asia in the late 1970s. It represented an attempt to transfer
the basic needs concept to rural regional planning. A close
interlinking of agricultural and small scale industrial (labour intensive)
activities is recommended, primarily oriented toward local demand.
Aid
see Development
co-operation
Alternatives
analysis
An analysis of alternatives
is a systematic procedure used to search for and decide on problem solutions.
It is used during the project design process for arriving at a
decision on the best ways and means of solving a problem or of
achieving goals. Alternatives are analysed using criteria relevant
to a situation. Alternatives analysis makes use of prioritisation,
enabling comparison of various strategies using qualitative and quantitative
criteria. Techniques such as cost-benefit analysis and utilities
analysis may also be used in alternatives analysis.
see also Prioritisation
Aquaculture
The cultivation of
freshwater and marine resources (both animal and plant) for human consumption.
Aspirations analysis
see Objectives
analysis
Assumptions
A term used in LogFrame planning
to describe risks or major conditions (frame conditions) or off-project
factors which are outside the direct control of a development project
or -programme, but which are so important that they will have to be
met or have to hold true if the project or programme is to achieve its
objectives. Analysing and specifying assumptions represents an
attempt to predict, minimise and manage risks. If important assumptions
are very unlikely to hold true, they are referred to as "killer-assumptions";
the project must then be redesigned to remove the "killers".
see also Frame
conditions
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