KKKH 4284 PERANCANGAN BANDAR LESTARI

NAME: MUHAMMAD ‘ARIFF PUTRA BIN

ANSARUDDIN AGUS

MATRIC NO: A 132588

LECTURER: PROF. DR. IR. RIZA ATIQ ABDULLAH BIN

O.K RAHMAT

DR. MUHAMAD NAZRI BIN BORHAN

MDM. NORLIZA BINTI MOHD AKHIR

Local Agenda 21 is a local-government-led, community-wide, and participatory effort to

establish a comprehensive action strategy for environmental protection, economic prosperity and

community well-being in the local jurisdiction or area. This requires the integration of planning

and action across economic, social and environmental spheres. Key elements are full community

participation, assessment of current conditions, target setting for achieving specific goals,

monitoring and reporting.

Local Agenda 21 started from Earth Summit Trial at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1992. LA21

focus on earth nature and balancing development with sustainability. It is the global

sustainability development act program and number 21 in this agenda shows the century of 21.

Malaysia is one of more 178 countries that have been agreed with LA21. LA21 consist of 40

chapters that have connected with sustainable development, and one of the chapters – Chapter 28

– about “Local Authorities’ Initiatives in Support of Agenda 21”.

From LA21, civil society should collaborate each other to plan and manage their

environment to the sustainable development. They can involve identifying and relating

sustainable development issues, planning acts for handle these issues and implement these act

planning.

Basic approach of the program is bottom-up approach – from society to government.

Means, their own society will join to determine act planning for each area. For example, local

residents directly involved to handle any talk, workshop or activity that has related to local

issues. Some of related issues like drainage system and flashflood, air and water pollution,

transport and traffic system, housing area, social issue in the community and so on.

LA21 have benefits either to individual, company or association, and government

representative.

1. As individual

a. Your opinion will be considered into planning and progressing the

programs to improve your life quality

b. Local authorities will be more efficient and responsible towards your

needs

c. More comfortable environment and high life quality

d. Improve the feeling of love and proud to your environment as much as

more responsible to your nature

2. As company or association

a. Improve your company image as a society or corporate association that is

responsible and responsive to the needs of local communities and

stakeholders other

b. running programs more efficiently because of the cooperation of other

stakeholders

c. opportunity to plan and manage the development environment of our area

along with local authorities

d. opportunity to provide input into the policies and methods of operation

that affect the local environment and quality of life of local communities

e. opportunity to serve the community

3. As representative of the government

a. enhance mutual understanding between the community and the

government

b. increase community support to programs that would be beneficial to all of

community

c. enhance the image as the representative of the government who practiced

good governance better with public participation, transparency, sensitivity,

consensus, effectiveness and efficiency, greater accountability and

strategic vision

There are steps on how to enhance the LA21 implementation, such as:

1. Community vision: a vision with the community through workshops or seminars

2. Joint venture: establish committees based on LA21

3. Study of the issue with the community: identify local issues based on the vision of

a society that has been formed. examine these issues with the community

4. Formulate a plan of action: consensus, set objectives, targets and measures taken

by the society

5. Implementation and monitoring: implement a plan of action through programs

and projects agreed. By strengthen the collaboration, monitor activities and

progress

6. Evaluation and feedback: evaluating indicators. announced the results of the

LA21 action plan

There are partners of joint venture for LA21; the society, local authorities, and private

sector. LA21 will be a sustainable development by espousal of them. The society can join

organizations, programs and activities in an environmentally and socially in their area. Don’t

forget to contact the local authorities to participate in programs for environmental and social. But

the most important; not only for society but for ourselves too, nurture our family and friends to

love the environment.

The relationship between LA21 and urban-rural development can be seen from

development planning preparation aspect. Publicity for structural and local plan is an

involvement of local authorities directly to urban-rural development. Residents are also involved

in development controls enforced by the local authorities; the public may object to or express an

opinion on a development or development in the local area based on specific grounds. The local

authority is the local planning authorities for the area of jurisdiction, thus indicating clearly do

LA21 with town and country planning.

Implementation of LA21 in this country showed support of Malaysia for Earth Summit

Declaration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992 towards sustainable development. To ensure its

implementation may be used in all local authorities, the cooperation of all parties should be

enhanced especially the commitment of the local authorities themselves, supported by the

Ministry. Through the implementation of planned & organized, living environment in the area

can be improved for mutual benefit.