Development planning processes

Abstract

The trend towards a practice of local planning has its origin in the decentralization process, not only delegating responsibilities to the State Administrations, but also to the municipal ones. For this reason, it is necessary to take into account the forms it takes: deconcentration, delegation, devolution, and privatization (Rodríguez, 1997; Rondinelli, in Finot, 2001). Forms that influence development as a result of the irreversible process of political decentralization not only for its redistributive nature of political-administrative allocations, but also for its efficient control of resources. In addition to considering it as a process (and not a goal), decentralization can be understood, as Victoria E. Rodríguez points out, as "a series of measures that are applied to eliminate or at least reduce excess concentration" (Rodríguez, 1997 , 37).