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Community Planning Services

We deliver Community planning services as a holistic process in which we undertake the entire broad community participation under a comprehensive or individual area approach:

• This service enables the community to establish a vision for its future and implement projects to achieve this vision
• This Model helps to ensure that community projects and programs are thought through, make sense and are the best use of resources
• Lastly, ARK’s CCP life cycle integrates and links all other plans together which community has produced

Community Planning Processes are driven by the community, as the communities are most effective at achieving positive change. That’s why the comprehensive community planning process is inclusive and represents the perspectives of all members, whether they reside within or outside the community. All members of the community, including Elders, youth, and family representatives, can offer unique and valuable perspectives on community needs, values and priorities.

This comprehensive community plan addresses key planning areas, all of which are interrelated and interdependent: governance, land and resources, health, infrastructure development, culture, social issues, and the economy. Consideration of all key planning areas through one unified process defines community planning as a holistic and integrated exercise that can lead to sustainable development.