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	Other Thematic Reviews...     Main review page I.1 Social Impacts I.2 Indigenous People I.3 Displacement & Resettlement II.1 Ecosystems & Environment II.2 Dams & global change III.1 Economic analysis III.2 Project financing IV.1 Electricity supply IV.2 Irrigation IV.3 Water supply IV.4 Flood control IV.5 Operation & decommissioning V.1 Planning approaches V.2 Environmental and social assessment V.3 River basins - institutional frameworks V.4 Regulation & compliance V.5 Decision-making processes     Main page for this review
	V.1 Planning approaches Table of Contents - November 2000 1. Planning Context and Key Issues 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Scope of this Thematic Review 1.3 The Dams Debate: Focusing on Planning Issues 1.4 Influences on Planning Processes and Outcomes 1.5 Challenges to Establishing Good Planning Practice 1.5.1 Economic Systems and Planning 1.5.2 Donor Country/Developing Country Relationships 1.5.3 Building Capacity for Complex Planning 1.5.4 The Politics of Very Big Projects 1.6 Planning Principles 2. Categories, Types and Levels of Planning 2.1 General Categories 2.2 Policy and Regulatory Planning 2.2.1 Policy Setting (National or Provincial/State) 2.2.2 Regulatory Systems: Planning inputs to Regulation 2.3 Strategic Planning 2.4 Sector Planning 2.5 Programme and Project Planning 2.5.1 Programme Planning 2.5.2 Project Planning 2.6 Operation Phase Planning 2.6.1 General 2.6.2 Re-planning and Re-licensing: 2.6.3 Decommissioning 3. Planning Approaches 3.1 The Planning and Project Cycle 3.2 Integrated Approaches to Planning 3.2.1 General Features 3.2.2 Elements and Scope of Integrated Planning 3.2.3 Integrated Planning Process Characteristics 3.2.4 Disincentives to Implementing Integrated Planning 3.3 Application Of Integrated Approaches in Policy and Strategic Planning 3.3.1 Policy and Regulations Development 3.3.2 Strategic and Sector EAs 3.4 Application of Integrated Approaches in Sector Planning 3.4.1 Water Resources Planning and Management 3.4.2 From Policy to the Planning System of Framework 3.4.3 River Basin Planning 3.4.4 Irrigation and Water Supply Planning 3.4.5 Power Sector Planning 3.5 Project and Community Planning Level Application of Integrated Approaches 3.5.1 Project Level Applications 3.5.2 Community-Led Applications 3.6 Regional Level Application of Integrated Approaches 4. Multi-Criteria Analysis Methods 4.1 Formulation of Planning Issues in Multi-Criteria Terms 4.2 Decision Points Where MCA May Be Applied 4.3 Application of MCA in Planning 4.3.1 Identification of Stakeholders 4.3.2 Identification of criteria and assignment of criteria weights 4.3.3 Scoring and ranking of alternatives against each criteria 4.3.4 Comparison of alternatives across criteria or overall preference ranking 4.3.5 "Preferred" and "Contingency" IRPs 4.4 Other Issues in Applying MCA 4.4.1 Methodological Variations of MCA 4.4.2 MCA and CBA 4.4.3 The importance of criteria weights 4.4.4 Considerations of uncertainty and risk in MCA 5. CONCLUSIONS AND LESSONS LEARNED 5.1 Principles for Planning 5.2 Criteria and Guidelines 5.3 Approaches and Methods 5.4 Planning Processes 5.5 Institutional Roles in Planning 5.5.1 Sovereign Governments 5.5.2 Stakeholders 5.6 References for Section 5 6. REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING Endnotes

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