District planning combines district-based, participatory and national planning processes. This brief and accompanying report explores the views and experiences of local government staff of this ‘hybrid’ planning model. The brief also summarises the financial, administrative, and political constraints to participatory planning, and by implication the resulting constraints upon Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) as a means of ‘democratising’ the district planning process.
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