Improving planning and management systems

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends such improvements with respect to integrating environment and development in decision-making.

1. Strengthening systems
2. Improving
3. Enabling competent business management

1. Upgrading effective marketing management
2. Systematizing management patterns
3. Strengthening water management structure
4. Stimulating renewable resources management
5. Resolving competing land use requirements
6. Reforming health systems
7. Recognizing traditional fishery management systems
8. Providing integrated pollution control
9. Planning for sustainability
10. Monitoring risk management systems
11. Monitoring coastal environment
12. Managing the environment
13. Managing resources holistically
14. Managing land
15. Managing coasts
16. Involving local communities in contingency planning on environmental hazards
17. Indicating need for resource planning
18. Increasing integrated management of water resources
19. Increasing environmental management education capacities
20. Increasing business management expertise
21. Increasing accountability of public services
22. Incorporating sustainable indigenous management systems for land resources
23. Improving wild animal management
24. Improving urban data systems
25. Improving standard of economic management
26. Improving solid waste management
27. Improving planning and management methods
28. Improving national chemicals management capabilities
29. Improving money management skills
30. Improving management systems for highland valleys
31. Improving management skills in rural communities
32. Improving management of government finances
33. Improving management of expatriates
34. Improving management information
35. Improving management capability for medical care
36. Improving land and water management by farmers in arid regions
37. Improving international crisis management
38. Improving institutions for transferring integrated pest management technologies
39. Improving information systems for safety control
40. Improving human settlement management
41. Improving fish yields in inland waters using environmentally sound management methods
42. Improving farming systems
43. Improving external debt management capacity
44. Improving diagnosis of resource management issues
45. Improving basic crop care
46. Improving animal husbandry
47. Ensuring new approaches do not marginalize traditional roles of women
48. Developing managerial competence
49. Developing effective home management
50. Delegating sustainable development to appropriate level
51. Correcting mismanagement of transportation systems
52. Correcting mismanagement of legal system
53. Communicating with employees
54. Assessing impacts
55. Altering personnel management methods
56. Advancing environmentally sound technology and management systems
57. Adopting planning approaches serving multiple goals
58. Adopting integrated approaches to sustainable development
59. Adopting analytical procedures for prior impact assessments of projects

1. Utilizing high productivity methods of agricultural management
2. Managing technological change
3. Managing production
4. Managing natural resources
5. Managing environmental demand
6. Managing change
7. Maintaining social management
8. Coordinating international exchange rates

1. Structuring databases
2. Organizing time
3. Improving education on land management
4. Improving development model
5. Improving career development programmes for land and water management staff
6. Improving ability of professionals to report on institutional mismanagement

1. Mismanagement

1. Agenda 21