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MEDGIDIA
III. LOCAL ACTION PLAN FOR SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
III.1. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
The Local Action Plan, as a planning and implementation
tool, includes a set of policies by domains of activity,
applied over a defined period of time, aiming to achieve the
general objectives established by a strategy. The achievement
of the Local Action Plan should cover the period of 10-
20 years, a time period established for the implementation
of the Local Strategy for Sustainable Development.
The Local Action Plan should be periodically revised, so
that the established targets take into account the macroeconomic
evolution at the national level, the state of the
local and regional economy, and the local community
opinions regarding its implementation. Frequent revisions
lead to fewer errors in evaluating the resources of a project,
knowing that the variables that characterise the analysed
socio-economic system (the city) are multiplying in time.
For this reason, we propose to review the Local Action
Plan included in Local Agenda 21 every two years, even
if this is designed for ten year period.
III.2. PRINCIPLES AND CONDITIONS
The Local Action Plan addresses the local community of
Medgidia and the measures, their number and prioritisation
(probably the most sensible item of the Local Action Plan
content), as well as the institutional mechanism for
implementation take into account the interests of the local
community (business community, trade unions, charitable
associations and foundations, cultural associations,
organisations for protecting the cultural and architectural
heritage, the environment, animals, and religious
congregations).
The measures included in the Local Action Plan are
grouped in programmes, sub-programmes and projects
and are designed in accordance with the following aspects:
• Correlation between the targets established in
programmes, sub-programmes, projects and the general
objectives included in the Local Strategy for Sustainable
Development;
• Limited financial resources, that influence the funding
methods and legal mechanisms which the programmes,
sub-programmes and projects are based on (i.e. bank
credit, foreign loan, city bonds, concession, sale, rent,
public-private partnership based on concession, sale or
other type of contract etc.);
• Avoid the eviction effect (in economic understanding),
meaning that in the conditions of limited resources an
increase of public expenditures results in a decrease in the
consumption or private investments. The public authority
should permanently evaluate the opportunity of an
investment, not only from the point of view of its current
financial resources, but also from future resources, as well
as the population’s options, so that the community and
individual responsibility be encouraged, as well as the
partnership established for the implementation of a local
development project;
• Public awareness of a programme, sub-programme,
project through information dissemination among the local
community. In this respect, the Local Action Plan should
include the mechanism of public debate within the analysis
of the programmes, sub-programmes and projects to be
implemented;
• Involvement of the interested parties in the implementation
of a programme, sub-programme or project;
• Regulation versus self-regulation norms. The local authority
shall take into consideration that in some situations the
non-profit organisations or business community
associations can voluntarily establish their regulations for
the development of a certain project without the intervention
(through regulations) of the public authority. That is why it is
preferable to avoid over-regulation. It is also possible that