TY - BOOK ID - 137988245 TI - Strategic IDPs Assessement PY - 2013 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Affordable Housing KW - Capacity Building KW - Cities KW - City Development Strategies KW - Climate Change KW - Communities KW - Conservation KW - Cultural Heritage KW - Development Policy KW - Disabilities KW - Diversity KW - Economic Development KW - Economies of Scale KW - Employment KW - Environment and Natural Resource Management KW - Historic Buildings KW - Hospitals KW - Housing & Human Habitats KW - Human Capital KW - Legislation KW - Municipalities KW - National Urban Development Policies & Strategies KW - Poverty Reduction KW - Property Rights KW - Public Buildings KW - Roads KW - Rural Development KW - Rural Economy KW - Schools KW - Social Development KW - Social Inclusion KW - Strategic Planning KW - Sustainability KW - Technical Assistance KW - Transparency KW - Transport KW - Urban Areas KW - Urban Development KW - Urban Economy KW - Urban Planning KW - Urban Poverty KW - Urban Sprawl KW - Waste KW - Youth UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137988245 AB - Integrated Development Plans (IDPs) have been introduced in Romania as a prerequisite for accessing EU funds under the Regional Operational Program (ROP). The IDPs designed for growth poles represent a specific category of strategic planning documents as: 1) they need to be considered within the frame of the national policy to whose implementation they contribute; and 2) they represent a first endeavor to think of development across functional areas rather than confined to the administrative borders of the main cities. The objectives of this report are: i) to carry out a strategic evaluation of the seven IDPs and assess how the current plans compare with the diagnostic of the challenges identified in the work on urban development; and ii) to provide clear recommendations for the improvement of existing IDPs which will contribute to the elaboration of the future generation of plans implemented during the next programming period and will help improve the targeting of investments to enhance their economic impact. ER -