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Shift to local management	The government development plans have shifted from governmental based to local sustainable public and private sector involvement.
Call for collective action Improved urban-rural relationships Sustainable improvement of the environment	In development the obstacles are numerous and overcoming them calls for collective action which has been predicted in governmental policies opening the way for market exchange based interaction. The enthusiasm of national policies on local self-initiated development will overcome the limitations of external oil revenue investment for economic growth and can lead to a purposeful and productive interaction of urban and rural communities, aiming at the sustainable redevelopment and use of the available resources of the region. Efficiency and sustainability becoming the key words on which the growing needs of the population have to be met. This type of development calls for an active and committed participation of the local society on local development aims assisted by government and external private sectors, a process undertaken by the local society for defining problems – solutions – resources and application.
market based interaction	A call for a mature decentralization in the planning and programming process, assisting the local management in defining the most efficient methods of utilizing the available resources to meet the ends.
A synergetic entity between governments at local levels Development responsibility of management	This process will depend largely on the development of technical and managerial capacities of the local society as well as organizing for complimentary national and international aids to fill the gaps. The complexity of work ahead will demand a total participation of all involved parties. At the center of all improvement programs is the necessity to educate and train those involved in decentralized management and public participation for local development, an experience seldom held by those involved. To design and execute the process of cooperative sustainable area based development plan (ABD), the task of the consultant developer, stationed locally with the support of universities, research centers, civil servants from all levels in response to the complex needs of this mission becomes critical.

The Holistic Approach

In Nature living Organisms are both the user of resources and its subsequent producer, complimentary to the life cycle. Elements of nature act in harmony forming a stable climate. Man with his inherent abilities of spirit, mind, decision, innovation and group action can have a destructive or constructive effect on the above natural coherence. Either leading to higher levels of sustainability or bringing its destructive forces into action.

What is required is a holistic approach, respecting the rights, need and interactions of each part within the whole, as has been predicted in Creation.

The indifference towards the rules of harmonic coexistence and mis-interpretations of the unlimited freedom of the individual within the whole undermine the sustainable prosperity of societies and environments.

Therefore man as "developer" must believe and respect the unity of creation, understand its divine rules and define the path of progress in a balanced and coordinated harmony with the whole.

This will mean to respect each element of the whole support it the higher fulfillment and effectiveness and reap the fruits of the efficiency improvement of a coordinated development, a sustainable gain within a sustainable environment.

Investment for sustainable economic growth

Many governments and donators aim at relief and temporary improvements and do not basically and directly aim at the strengthening of the economic activities of the productive institutes of local communities. This might be effective in developed economies but falls short in developed - and undeveloped economies. The infrastructures and assistants should be allocated to the growth and sustainability of the local economy, which would in return and in a sustainable manner, invest and support from their boosted income the social needs of their own societies.

Unity of economic productive units and supporting services

Committed support to productive economic units

The local service structure supported by national budgets, due to its independence from local incomes, have limited commitment towards the success or failures of the economic activities of their region. This type of up-down service arrangement leaves local units stranded without the necessary support for success.

Sustainable development pending on the successful fusion of management – ideology-policy - culture-social - behavior - education-technology-manpower-capital-business and natural resources needs to predict the way of bringing together these elements into a whole investing in productive economic units and providing the necessary services to support them.

The unrelated expenditure of government budget to the needs of productive units and the necessity of moving from an oil revenue dependence to a market supported economy calls for a change in the mechanism of government expenditure in offering service supports at the local level in such a way as to materialize the recycle of such investment through local sustainable development achievements.

At the core of this planning process rest the productive economic units which form the basis of the local economy.

Therefore the economic productive units become stakeholders of the regional development organization plan.

The coalition contract and share holding systems based on the participatory role of the stakeholders in realizing the vision of their regional sustainable development brings commitment and profit to the supporting services from the success of the economic plants; thus activating them to support for their success.

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