Training staff on integrated infrastructure services planning

Description

Training staff on integrated infrastructure services planning involves equipping personnel with the skills and knowledge to coordinate and optimize multiple infrastructure systems—such as water, energy, transport, and communications—within a unified framework. This practical strategy addresses inefficiencies, resource duplication, and service gaps by fostering cross-sector collaboration, data-driven decision-making, and holistic project management, thereby ensuring resilient, cost-effective, and sustainable infrastructure development that meets community needs and adapts to changing demands.

Implementation

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 developing a cadre of professionals with adequate skills in integrated infrastructural service planning and maintenance of resource efficient, environmentally sound and socially acceptable systems.